I'm back, a full time blogger again! The last month has been a very turbulent time in my life, but now I'm sitting here in Windsor, in the shadow of the world's greatest Castle, with a new job, new place to live and a new start.

Career-wise I've also shifted slightly. Up until now I've been working in academia, and until last month I was working on ecological modelling for the British Antarctic Survey. Actually I'm still doing some work with them on a voluntary basis in my free time, which we'll be publishing in 2009. Unfortunately I had a temporary contract with them, and unfortunately the money wasn't there to renew it, so I had to leave.

Now I have a new job in Berkshire, working in industry. Unable to find the kind of RA position I wanted, I had just signed up with an agency in desperate panic about unemployment and cardboard boxes and chicken soup, when an agent told me about an R&D position in a young, small but growing form. It turned out that the job was really rather good. My first degree, before my Ph.D. took me towards the life sciences, was in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and my work since then has been broadly to do with modelling and simulation of complex systems. In this new role I'll be tasked with sitting between the company, a firm specializing in model-based reasoning and AI, and the research community. It's a fascinating job, and I'm enjoying getting to grips with it. I won't tell you where it is just yet though due to plausible deniability and my semi-anonymous blogging policy.

So what am I now? A sort of hybrid, part-academic, part-industrial, part-scientist, part-engineer, and a multi-disciplinary renaissance man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

And I'm a blogger, and now that my life has been unflipped and turned the right way up again (yeah, I watched Fresh Prince as a kid), I can finally get on with it again. Amazingly my Technorati Rating has been increasing since I've been on hiatus, so welcome all you new people, and I hope I can keep you entertained and informed for many years to come.

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BPSDB people - all those unanswered e-mails, the RSS bug, the name changes and updates - I will be sorting them later today. Thank you for your patience, and I promise to keep on top of things a bit better, at least until the next time I lose my job and have to move and wotnot.