[ from the London-abstracted-from-reality dept. ]
London Stuff
On Friday I was in London all day. In the morning I had a meeting in the City and after that I went via DLR to Telehouse Docklands suite TFM4 to update the kernel on dmesg. Having rebooted twice following the realisation that lmsensors was not running in the new 2.4.21 which had replaced 2.4.20 – 2.4.22 does not have ACL patches currently available as yet – I went over to Cabbot Square for a late lunch or early dinner at
The Gourmet Pizza Company. Very nice vegitarian pizza there indeed.
Eventually I went back to Bank station and then began walking randomly in a direction I thought might take me to the Thames. I ended up at The Tower and then walked over Tower Bridge to find a certain David Blaine suspended in that famous glass box. I waved as he waved at the crowd.
Then started walking towards Westminster and crossed the now not so wobbly Millennium Bridge to end up at Tate Modern and spent a while looking at the art. Look out for the Sausage video of a female artist eating a sausage and a banana, and also for the violent clown videos. Of course there were a few typical examples such as a completely blue canvas which is supposed to express the meaning of voidness or somesuch – I see the point though this also encourages me that I too could be an artist in the sense that a printout of this blog might be considered art. 
. The Soviet Poster section was rather thought provoking. The cafe is quite nice and the coke and smoothie were well called for.
Did a whole bunch of random other stuff and added a high priority to getting a digital camera so that I can preserve more of these events for posterity.
Weekend Plans
This weekend I am likely to be in Birmingham at some point, obviously Reading a bit, possibly London for theatre, and I might go to Poole on Sunday if the weather is pleasant enough to randomly visit ben.
Misc
Strangely enough I will probably not visit Call Centre Expo 2003 as was suggested in a mailshot I was sent which just made me think that little bit more about human depravity. I did consider going in order to track down some Telemarkers in order to explain why it is that they do not help humanity but it would do not good. Of course not all Call Centres are used for Telemarketting BUT I would like to suggest that this Expo will feature a lot of that side of things.
The SPARCbook has now been paid for at should at some point be on its way to me perhaps. I am going to Linux Expo UK 2003 in London in October. Probably the Thursday and perhaps the Wednesday too.
Jon.