Dr Laura James's writings

This was on Botolph Lane this lunchtime. I've spotted a few similar things around the area; earlier this week there were boards near the Pitt Building on Trumpington Street with cryptic phrases and some maths concepts.

This, in Corpus Christi College on the corner of Kings Parade and Bene't Street, will soon be the home of the new Clock, part of the Library Court project . This clock will be incredible in a number of ways, but mostly stands out at the moment as a monument to the pre-web age, because I can't find any reference to it online. I remember that I read an article about it on paper some time ago, talking about the traditional mechanism and amazing art that will surround it, and now I can see where it's going to be, I'm really excited.

Before the intense rain and thunder last night, Dominic and I sat outside at the Pickerel in the sunshine. He was sporting the new AlertMe customer support team fleece - very smart! We managed to stay outside under the nice green umbrella through most of the storm, and I didn't get too wet cycling home afterwards. It sounds as if Dominic, and James (who joined us later) and everyone else are doing a great job. Thanks to all for the (rather belated) leaving present, too!

Last Friday, it was BarCamb time again, with BarCamb2 being held at the Sanger Centre. Michael has put some photos up, and I blogged the event for work . Highlights included being one of a select handful of presenters who have given talks at both BarCambs to date; Simon Ford's mbed update "embedded can do the internet too", including mention of their terrific Mashed08 demo of Packet Network ; and a programme with a mix of biotech, community, software, and technology talks. The afternoon's panel session confirmed my view that git is the latest&greatest thing (either that, or it just happens to make people terribly evangelical) and that at work we should probably have a review of whether it's worth migrating from SVN , and maybe a tutorial session. Once more , thanks to Matt Wood for doing a sterling job organising a barcamp !

Video of Cory's recent talk - the first of the Cambridge Business Lectures - here . I enjoyed his lively presentation, although I felt the audience was more techies/hackers (a traditional Cory audience) than the business types I might expect for this talks series in general. The business-minded section of the Cambridge entrepreneurial community would probably have benefited from Cory's ideas.