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Somehow the getting up and waking up before doing the breakfast show trail idea worked out. I had almost finished a huge bowlful of washing up and was half way through a cup of tea when they rang, and so sounded pretty awake. Unfortunately I’d chosen to talk about the e-gold story, which turned out to be rather dull. I should have done the NASA one instead.
The railway speed limits are back, so it took over two hours to get to London, which made me late for my Microsoft meeting, which I suspect will turn out to be the same talk they’ll be giving at their “Christmas party” next week. I did quite well from it - a nice new keyboard, some champagne and a tube of Smarties just for turning up. Oh, and a press pack, of course, but that’s par for course.
A good fun show. Had Leo from the office on doing the news. It was his first time on radio, and he said he was shaking, but he came across as very relaxed and had a good selection of stories. Had a couple of spanner heads from NASA talking about the Interplanetary Internet. They were very interesting, and certainly came across as media trained. We carried on with them for twice the length we’d planned and still had questions we didn’t get to ask by the end of it. I think we could probably have done an hour on them alone.
Got home to a crawling cable modem and in the end gave up trying to book hotels in Oxford using my Windows PC and switched to Linux and a dial-up modem, which was far quicker. I really don’t know how they can claim broadband is 10x quicker than a modem. Come to think of it, they probably say up to 10x faster. Semantics are a wonderful thing.
Booked into the Travelodge in the end, so will do my best to put the blocked-solid-to-the-rim Chicago toilet out of my mind.
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