I came across a link to their website today, and it reminded me of when I first came across the concept of OYBike. Coming home from a DramSoc event in the early hours (or very, very late hours, depending on your sleeping patterns), a beggar-type came up to me on Shepherd’s Bush Green, wanting to show me something. He led me over to a pair of bikes, shackled to a bike rack, and explained that you could hire them by sending a text. He thought it was brilliant, in a what-will-they-think-of-next, what-a-cool-world-we-live-in kind of way.

He then sponged some money off me, but that’s beside the point.

Is this the next big transport idea? Pah. Is it ever going to make money? Doubt it. Maybe if they sink lots of money into it, there’ll be enough locations to make it worth while. The company involved has got the co-operation of the council, so maybe if they can get financial co-operation, they’ll be sorted. Sponge off the state, it’s the only way to go.

…unless you ask me nicely.

I’m not updating this much, as you’ve probably noticed. A few things are conspiring against my blogging. First of all, I don’t have an internet connection at home, and during the day I have work to do. So that hampers my posting ability. Secondly, since I don’t spend all my time surfing the web, checking other people’s weblogs and stuff, I don’t find as much stuff to link to any more. And when I do, I generally don’t have much time to post about it. As I’ve explained.

Apart from that, I’m having a great time. I’m working at the Charing Cross Hospital, doing support for the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine researchers who work here. Outside that, I spend a lot of time meeting up with friends; both in the bar (of course), and when I go climbing - we’ve been going twice a week for the past month, and I’m getting quite good.

The one bad thing is that most of my out-of-hours conversations keep revolving back to IT related stuff. Computers are such a big thing in most people’s lives, and there’s a fairly strong geek crowd at Imperial (and in That Club in particular), so lots of people want to talk about them. I’m especially fed up of people whinging at me that other people in ICT aren’t sorting out their problem, as if a) I care or b) I can do anything about it. Never mind the IT groupies, a few of my friends work in ICT too, and it’s too easy to fall into talking shop with them. Sure, it’s great that other people know exactly how you feel when icfs9 goes down (again, grrrr), but I’m trying to not make my job a 24/7 thing.

So if you see me around, feel free to ask me how my job is going (great, thanks), but I’m more than willing to talk about other stuff.