<t>Thanks for the advice Dominic, I've seen shuffled the CV around a bit and its much improved.On a somewhat related question, I've seen you mention you like CFD and are certainly aware of what it is! How familiar do you think the average self styled quant recruiter is with CFD, meaning how much do ...

<t>I've worked part time as a web developer while on my undergraduate and MSc course, and did a year as a sys admin before moving to the UK to start my degrees.I'm a little concerned that having these first on my CV overshadows that I'm just finishing my MSc in Aeronautics/CFD and that the web dev w...

<t>I'm a big fan of Good Reader, though I've only used it on my iPad. Plenty of ways to get your pdfs on there and syncing works OK (bit slow). It works well with Dropbox, which is a must for me.. I only do light annotations, so I can't rate how well GR is in this area. Give it a shot, especially if...

You could have a go at Chrome's NaCl (native client) and trying running some client side C/C++ in the browser. Though you seem pretty keen on Java! http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/

If you want to run windows in a VM, VirtualBox is free. Not as many features as Parallels/Fusion, but should be able fine for this.