End of an Era

Wednesday marked a major milestone, in that I retired from IPV after more than 24 years with the company.  We formed Telemedia Systems (as it was then known) from the late, and much lamented, Olivetti Research Laboratory in order to commercialise our work on computer video and audio over high speed networks.  Almost a quarter of a century on, and the integration of Broadcast Television with general computing is now all but complete.  Indeed, computers are so powerful - and networks so fast - that much of the functionality is now handled over the Internet and "in the cloud".  The end of an era for an embedded systems engineer who prefers to work with real hardware, so time to move on.

My retirement cake was a work of art, as well as being absolutely enormous.  The crowning glory was a replica Fuji X-T2, which was correct to the last detail.  Issy, eagle-eyed as ever, managed to spot a spelling mistake in the retirement message, however...

So what's next.  Lots of dog walking, definitely.  More opportunity to do work with the Royal Photographic Society and Cambridge Camera Club.  More one-on-one and workshop teaching.  More time to do the jobs at home which I've been putting off for many years (e.g. the dripping tap in the downstairs loo).  Who knows, maybe more of my own photography and keeping this blog up-to-date?  Only time will tell.