Monday morning, grey skies and rain. England can be an intensely depressing place to be when faced with the weather alone, and days like today certainly don't help matters any.

How come when places say they're open at 9am these days, they aren't? I'm looking for somewhere to live, dammit – and if you say you're open at 9am you'd best be opening at 9am if you're a lettings agent and you're on my list of establishments. Grrrrrr.

Due to a bit of unclever vendor management on one of the bigger projects I'm working on at the moment, it looks like I've got around 5-6 weeks of free time to point at another project called 'Letter Ops'. We've got a piss-poor but industry standard letter/enclosure production system here, and it's got Capital One UK's clunky as fuck™ customisations all over it. I've only ever really got involved with it a little last year to cover someone else, but now we're replacing the lot. Cool thing about it is, rather than using the usual project methodology we use on work here, this project is going 'Agile'. This appears to have brought some success with a few other little projects that have gone in recently, but tends to get people's backs up with it's slight disregard for CM processes. I for one can't wait to get involved, as it appears to actually get stuff done! Par example – Phase 2 of a large MIS remediation project will actually go live after Phase 3 because the latter has been developed and delivered as an Agile project. Woot.

Since LJ is still classified under 'Personals and Dating', I need to come up with a solution for reading an RSS of my own friendslist somewhere. I'm sure it's possible, I may have to look at scripting up a scraper of my own.

In other news, I ate too much BBQ meat this weekend when visiting my family with my Girlfriend. We bought some very cute books for my 18month old niece, which were well recieved. I am currently using my Dad's spare SE T290i as my old-ass T610 is on the proverbial blink.

Grey day continues to be all grey. Rain continues to rain. Tea from vending machine appears to be too brown to be tea. Same old story. :)