I’m currently sitting in the UK’s centre of all things Wi-Fi, Brighton.

Specifically, I’ve been in Grand Central, a pub opposite the station, for a couple of hours now, where I’m taking advantage of their free Wi-Fi connection to catch up on some e-mail and have a chat with a few pals and business contacts on IM. I’m even getting a bit of writing done.

But I’ve noticed there are problems for the solitary Wi-Fier – how do I put it? Sometimes you need a wee-wee, and you don’t want to leave your laptop unattended.

The answer, according to my friend Paul Silver is a T-shirt with a kangaroo pocket, so you can stuff your laptop and associated valuables into it when you need to answer the call of nature. Perhaps it’s an idea for the looseconnection.com Web site (the folks who set up this wonderful free Net access).

I’m afraid the conversation then took a turn for the worse… with the Wi-Fier’s catheter/hosepipe for those who seriously never want to leave their seat.

A tip for 2004′s fashions and accessories – remember, you heard it on Dangerous Thinking first!

This weekend I started reading my third Haruki Murakami novel – Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – only to find a pile of (my first) Japanese spam when I opened up Outlook earlier. Spooky!

I think I need to sit in a well to think about it.

Sam and I were privileged to be at the evening party for Glenn and Sophia’s wedding yesterday.

We had a great time! Thanks so much for asking us.

We hope your life together goes from strength to strength.

Here I am!

My brain is incapable of any Dangerous Thinking today – it has turned into a half-cooked suet pudding in this heat.

But who’s complaining!

Seth Godin on corporate privacy:

A few decades ago, we discovered that quality was free. It is actually cheaper to build stuff right the first time than it is to fix it later. Guess what? Transparency isn’t just free, it can be profitable, too, by sharpening your competitive edge. In an ever-competitive environment, it is also a requirement.

Worth a read, even if the ideas are going to take a lot of implanting in corporate land, IMO.

Fast Company

The BBC headline just shows how shoddy writing can completely divert the reader from the message – and, in this case, the fact that some poor people have got injured.

Questionable taste warning:

One of my machines has the BBC news ticker running on it. They’re currently running a headline that says Turkey bomb injures police and it makes me laugh every time it comes round.

I’ve been looking at Laughing Knees’ onlline gallery as I eat my lunchtime sandwich.

These are great photographs. Makes me want to dust off my old Canon AE1s this weekend and take some considered pix.

When I bought them more than 20 years ago, they seemed like high technology; now, they’re almost craft objects. But they’re so familiar, even now, that I they almost disappear from the photography experience.

The Four Winds :: Eyes to see…

Independently of my Netscalibur-related rants yesterday, I got this from Paul at Real Programmers, where DT and our main domains are now hosted:

Hi David – Just checking in! Everything going OK there? Anything I can do? Ideas for improvements or …?

Cheers, Paul

So we’ve spent today exchanging e-mails about what I’d like to see.

I seem to remember Netscalibur’s predecessor, Direct Connection, had about three or so people when I opened my first account with them, and until recently they were still a great company, with brilliant technical support (their technical support may still be brilliant, but the fundamentals have gone splatt). Maybe they’ve just got too big and corporate… Who knows?

Or was it just that they became too obvious a target for spammers? Still can’t understand why their house was brought down by spam, though.