… to the best of my abilities and as much as can be covered in a two-day course aimed at people who have some idea about coding. Which, admittedly, I do, thanks to all the LambdaMOO that lurks in my past (understanding the object-oriented bits today was a doddle thanks to that). But it’s unlikely that I’ll have to do any C++ programming in the future. Perl, possibly. And I really liked the look of Ruby. But C++ probably not - although I may have to be able to at least look through code and understand it.

Anyway, the past week and a bit of training have all been on things quite different from the work I’ve done previously as a tech writer (my Linux fiddling was back in my sys admin and support days), and I’ve enjoyed the change.

Also today, I am mostly … stuffing myself with Indian food

… because I don’t get the chance at home and since I’m living in a hotel at the moment, I do have to eat. Went with one of my New York-based colleagues who’s over for the training/induction course. So far in our meals together (we ate Thai last Thursday), we’ve discussed the topics that you’re not supposed to, ever: politics and religion! Good discussions though, and definitely better than sitting by myself staring at a book or the TV as I’ve done a couple of times over the last week and a bit.