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Last weekend was pretty hectic with an early start to Friday, following the NME fun on Thursday night, I met up with some old buddies from my UCL days and we made tracks for Bournemouth where we met up with Henry Van Der Beek. Henry was on the MSc course at UCL with us and I later worked with him at the Creature Shop for a time. He’s doing the MSc in Animation and plans to take the world of rag doll simulation by storm. The man has an unhealthy obsession with manga and martial arts fight sequences. I very much enjoyed hearing geeky stories of what he’s doing with their render farm. Amusing that little bits of Python and SQL in just the right places can keep you at the top of the render queue without anyone noticing. He’s running rings around them. Hehe.

I did try to moblog this photo as we left Waterloo but I had forgotten to rewire by moblog setup what with my new Wordpress blog. So here I am testing out the the new setup. Left to right: Lloyd, Dan and Patrick. Great night in Bournemouth. Hmmm…shall we say, a very interesting night life….from my mobile

[Update: Urrrgh the moblog test was a miserable ugly failure. I had to go and edit it all by hand afterwards. The picture was in the wrong place and the text was all over the place. I was using the functionality that flickr offers - blog via email using the MetaWeblog API. Anyone got any better ways of doing this?? Thanks.]

[Update 2: God what a mess. In the end I had to delete the post and redo it from the normal wordpress admin interface because it somehow totally screwed up the sidebar of the blog. Urgh. I like it better when things just work.:(]

Through a strange twist of fate I find myself in London’s Hammersmith Palais at the NME Awards After party. Lots people dancing and generally having a laugh. Apparently the real party is at some hotel down the road, I’m heading there.

…from my mobile

As I sit on the Eurostar at Gare du Nord station in Paris waiting to depart direction London, I reflect on 4 days in this superb place. I’d like to thank the smelly cheeses, the lovely red wines, oyster and champagne decadence, the NYE boat party, the endless supply of people wearing hats; old friends, new friends, a fantastic host, and last but not least the wonderfull french pastries without which waking up would simply not have been possible.

The perfect combination of all of these people and things have really made the end of my whirlwind trip around Europe something to remember. Bisous a tout le monde, I hope to see you all again soon. May good things happen to you in 2006.

…from my mobile

This is just a test to see if I can get an image to post to the dcinput blog via email to flickr. This first one is from my laptop.

Next I’ll try from my mobile…