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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Bertrand Russell

This is stunningly beautiful to my eye!

Because the scientific evidence seems to be consistently and increasingly clear that we really need to.

Benjamin Zephaniah is one of my favourite poets. I have some very well worn cassettes at home containing readings by the man himself. He lives in Stratford, home of the Olympics in many respects. I wonder what he thinks of the Games? I’d like to find out. Wonder how could I do that? He’s also a novelist but I’ve not read any of his novels. Maybe that will be next.

Hedy Lamarr has to be near the top of the list it seems. I think I’d agree. More about her here. Uh oh, the pee cee police are coming down the corridor already.

They have given us into the hands of the new unhappy lords,

Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their swords.

They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;

They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient wrongs,

Their doors are shut in the evenings; and they know no songs.

G.K. Chesterton

I’ve gone ukulele mad 🙂

First, one of my favourite songs. Well, I grew up listening to John Peel after all.

Second, some very amusing northern nuances!

Eleanor did “show and share” at school this morning.
She read out her character description, written exactly as follows.
Well done Eleanor 🙂

Tuesday 2nd October

Mrs Jolly

Mrs Jolly was the caretaker of the school.
She had a ginger cat who loved fish.
She was very cind and allso help full.
Mrs Jolly was getting very old.
She was determined to retire.
Mrs Jolly new that she was a witch but nobody else new that she was.

The end.

From Ben Hammersley “The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain channeling Morricone. The vocals at the end convey deep ownage“. Thoroughly enjoyable!

More on Freedom’s Fury.

This Dave Winer comment is interesting. I like Facebook. I have never really liked Linked-in.

At VANOC in the Project Review meeting with IOC technology. Quite a lot of talk about the next winter city. My money is on Sochi. We’ll all be round the TV watching the announcement tomorrow.

… don’t work!

In workshops with Atos Origin Major Events all this week, focussing on 3 areas:

• The Responsibilities Matrix – the breakdown of all responsibilities between the key partners in delivering the 2012 technology programme
• The IT Master Plan – which needs to be carefully aligned with the overall planning schedules
• The Help Desk – so that the many people using technology systems at the Games have somewhere to go if things go wrong and need fixing

There is a real focus on actually operating the Games, which is refreshing.

Whoa, I love the way they’ve done this!

We’re now definitely in phase 2 of the LOCOG lifecycle if recent conversations with friends and press reports are anything to go by. Didn’t take long. In fact I think London broke all records!

Most telling comment in this piece? Easy – Mike Short on spectrum issues.

I find it amazing how Moore’s Law continues unabated with progress like nano and teraflop chips. Not that I am complaining 😉

I am beginning to seriously fall in love with YouTube as the quality of the content increases steadily. I love Nina Simone. Try this too. Amazing stuff from 1962.