Seldom
does a change in day job generate a vast amount of excitement for the
professional freelancer. It’s always interesting to move to a new
project, overcome new challenges etc., but an office is an office and a
project is a project.

I set the backdrop to illustrate by counterpoint just how psyched I am about what I’m going to be doing. As of next week, I will be working for Microsoft Research on the Chem4Word project. I’ll be based in The Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics at Cambridge University. My passions for science and software have never clashed like this – I quite literally cannot wait.