happy week

Horray into london three times and didn't get blown up at all! Yesterday's festival of flourescent jackets at Clapham junction was a tad surreal -seriously up to a dozen cops on every platform all day- but no obvious guns. Brighton station not so nice- two blokes with HK 5.56mm assault rifles do not make me feel reassured- and knowing the sort of mess those things make, I can't really see them being very useful in a crowd.

Anyhoo- the Glasgow Caledonian pair are back up north after impressing many with their Spoke Word a/v teaching tool. It's good to see people coming in and rocking the boat- shaowing us that there are plenty of ways to skin cats, and we shouldn't be too smug about our current feline peeling activeties.

Also R has bought a very natty sony mp3 player- sadly though it won't tak drag and dropped MP3s off a pc unless that PC is running Sony's own drm savvy application. Unless that is you install a new OS on the device. I got as far as finding the exe files for the new OS but she decided she'd rather not fillet the software on her shiny new toy just yet. Harumph.

Dusting off

It's Reith day plus four now, and I didn't lead a revolution. I have spent the week talking to loads of people all around the place though, and there has been just enough grass roots common sense, bravado, gumption, imagination and sheer go for it bloody minded ness to convince me the spirit of the duffer is still with us.

I think new tools are helping too- Blogs, Wikis and the whole punktechsuite is allowing peole to begin to rewire the whole place under 'their' noses.


Nice day in Brighton today. Lunch at Brighton Rocks was lovely.