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+Week 313
+========
+
+This week was a bit sad, because it was the last week we had our office at 87 Worship Street in Shoreditch -- the lease came to an end on Sunday. As you may have read in previous week notes, the landlord has [almost doubled the rent][gfrhq-property-details] and we can't justify paying that much, so we've reluctantly decided to move out.
+
+### Computation Club
+
+Before moving out we hosted one last edition of the [London Computation Club][]. This week [we worked through the exercises in chapter 4][nand2tetris-chapter-4] of Elements of Computing Systems which involved writing a couple of small programs in the eclectic _HACK_ assembly language. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and I'm looking forward to the next meeting which will be hosted by [Leo Cassarini][] at [Geckoboard][].
+
+### Down Under
+
+[Chris][] is now on the New Zealand leg of his Antipodean adventure and it looks as if he & Amy are having a lot of fun!
+
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+
+### Moving Out
+
+I spent all week in the office (i.e. not at [FutureLearn][]) preparing for the move -- administrivia, disassembling furniture, packing, cleaning, etc. On Wednesday morning [Hackney Council][] took away the older chairs and desks that we inherited from the previous tenants and later that day the [British Heart Foundation][] collected a couple of sofas that were surplus to requirements.
+
+I managed to get everything packed up in the nick of time for [Rocket Van][] to move the rest of our stuff into our [Urban Locker][] self-storage unit on Thursday and luckily everything fitted in OK. Thanks to [Tom S][] and [Tom T][] for their help and forbearance all week and thanks to [James A][] who helped out on the day of the move.
+
+I spent the rest of Thursday getting the place cleaned up and handed the keys over to the landlord on Friday morning.
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>End of an era <a href="http://t.co/hAAV1l9ZbG">pic.twitter.com/hAAV1l9ZbG</a></p>&mdash; Tom Stuart (@tomstuart) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomstuart/status/555729167464280064">January 15, 2015</a></blockquote>
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+<br />
+
+### Kalv
+
+[Kalv][], a GFR alumnus, was in town on Friday and a group of us met up with him for a very enjoyable lunch at the [Strongroom Bar & Kitchen][] -- Kalv [emigrated to Vancouver][] in Canada back in 2011. It was really interesting to hear about his experiences of looking for funding for a JavaScript analytics product, [Caliper][], and subsequently of setting up and running the successful company, [Brewhouse Software][].
+
+### Prospect
+
+Later on Friday I headed over to Fitzrovia to meet a prospective client. I'd be the first to admit that "sales" is not one of my strong points, so I was a little apprehensive about going to this meeting on my own. However, the people were very friendly and I hope I did a reasonable job of explaining how GFR works and why we choose to work that way.
+
+That's all folks.
+
+-- James
+
+[gfrhq-property-details]: http://www.dominion.co.uk/properties/87-worship-street/D-Property-Details.aspx
+[London Computation Club]: http://london.computation.club
+[nand2tetris-chapter-4]: https://github.com/computationclub/computationclub.github.io/wiki/Elements-of-Computing-Systems-Chapter-4
+[Geckoboard]: https://www.geckoboard.com/
+[Leo Cassarini]: https://twitter.com/cassarani
+[Chris]: /chris-roos
+[FutureLearn]: https://www.futurelearn.com/
+[Hackney Council]: http://hackney.gov.uk/
+[British Heart Foundation]: https://www.bhf.org.uk/
+[Rocket Van]: http://www.rocketvan.co.uk/
+[Urban Locker]: http://www.urbanlocker.co.uk/
+[Tom S]: http://codon.com/
+[Tom T]: http://tomtaylor.co.uk/
+[James A]: http://lazyatom.com/
+[Kalv]: http://www.kalv.co.uk
+[emigrated to Vancouver]: /kalv-goes-west
+[Strongroom Bar & Kitchen]: http://www.strongroombar.com/
+[Caliper]: http://caliper.io/
+[Brewhouse Software]: http://brewhouse.io/
+
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+:author: james-mead
+:created_at: 2015-01-21 14:53:00 +00:00
+:updated_at: 2015-01-21 14:53:00 +00:00
+:page_title: Week 313