Bagel Belly Blog

All is well

A couple of weeks ago when I was talking to Lauren through iChat, she asked me if I was being "a geek in a pub". This was when I was sat in the Maid's Head taking advantage of the free wireless. My response was to snap this photo using my mobile, and to paste it into iChat. I guess that means I was being a geek in a pub ;-)

Yesterday was another day of early starts, time spent on trains, tubes and taxis. I heard last week that during the summer, this journey will no longer be possible as the track is being closed at Ipswich for major engineering works. (See advance engineering, "Ipswich rail tunnel closed for rebuilding the railway track".) Suddenly I feel like I should appreciate the luxury of London only being two hours away...

One of our meetings yesterday was with the fine folks at BBC R&D, to follow up on some work we did for them, and to decide what to do next. Looks like we're edging closer to the seriously fun stuff. The next project will most likely take advantage of the best new stuff in Cocoon.

Kingswood Warren is a seriously amazing place. It's a fairly sizeable campus, with a curious gothic mansion at the centre. Combine that with the scarily intelligent people working there. I can't help but enjoy myself when we visit, and both times so far I've come away feeling inspired. This is the side of the BBC that you don't see when people are bitching about taxpayers' money, political independence, etc.

While I'm on the subject, the BBC are deploying camera phones as a way of catching breaking news. Nice.

And finally. The last four weeks have been a more stressful time than many that I can remember (for reasons I don't want to go into). But this article (and the problems being at least temporarily fixed) reminded me to stop complaining and get on with life. All is well, and here's the secret: saying it makes it so.

Posted by savs at February 7, 2004 4:36 PM