05 July 2006
As I've mentioned elsewhere Semantic lives in a secret underground office complex* within the campus of Southampton Science Park.The big reason we came here (in 2000) was that they offered a three month get out clause... or as I call it the "Oh my God, Disaster, Disaster, Dive, Dive" clause. At the time I didn't want to bet my house, my son's future or my marriage that Semantic was going to last the three years that every other office space wanted us to commit to.
So that was the big reason, but the quality of the environment came a pretty close second.
I looked at the typical industrial parks. You know they thing. There are cars parked everywhere... sometimes two or three deep (that's on top of each other)... and the odd desperate weed chronically addicted to exhaust fumes. Bleeeuch.
And then we saw the Science Park. It has a lovely campus feel. It has grass, trees... there is a pond and picnic benches outside our window. And yesterday it had a deer happily munching away on a bush.
I nodded to the deer (we've met before) and drove on smiling.
*parts of this sentence may not be entirely true.
Posted by Nick Warren at 7:35 AM
