Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

I tend not to blog much (or at all) about what I do to pay my bills (safer in terms of NDAs and probably only of interest to a very narrow set of people). My latest professional transition is a bit too interesting to leave undocumented though.

After spending nearly four years at Thomson hacking network stacks, I thought I'd take on something radically different. Since Monday, I'm consulting for QinetiQ (aka Verhaert Space) hacking on fitness machines to be used in space.

I don't think it's possible to make a more radical transition.

This may be my first project where all the calculus and physics I studied will come in useful. I'm surprised with how quickly it all came back to me.

The new commute will be a bit expensive in terms of books (I estimate needing two books a week) but I think technical thrills are worth that.

I'll go back to writing travel adventures and general complaints again now.