Day Four Hundred and Ninety Seven

Friday

A good productive day at work profiling the Brisbane trail. Lots of numbers, i.e. 4000 GPS data points along the trial but gives a good profile and data for our materials.

Drove to St Leonards and picked up Kate from work and we then came to Willoughby to stay. Kate starts a 5 week course at North Shore Hospital tomorrow so easier to get to from here.

Interesting news from UK, seems like the Symbian thing really is sinking now fast. Many of my ex colleagues at Nokia Cambridge where I once worked were served notices yesterday on the doorstep, doesn't look like the Cambridge office will survive.

The head of the Symbian Foundation has left.

Nokia is focusing on other ways of development.

Lots of interesting stories here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/22/nokia_layoffs/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/nokia_layoffs/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/20/symbian_ceo_quits_what_now/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/19/symbian_chief_steps_down/

Its a real shame, so many people put lots of years of effort into building Symbian and we really were the market leaders for a long time, now alas it looks like all that work is wasted and good people will be out on the street. From a selfish point of view I'm so glad Kate and I jumped ship when we did with the package we got, I think we got the best deal redundancy wise, no one else will get what we got offered.

Now let me go and buy an Iphone...