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The Berlin Wall, “The Best and Sexiest Wall ever existed!!!“. Right…

Adobe parties have earned themselves a reputation over the years for loud music, great venues, and half-naked people with only body paint and a thong to keep themselves decent. It’s not surprising, then, that so many people turned up to last night’s party at the Kensington Roof Gardens.

It all started out very civilised, with drinks and nibbles at the bar, and gradually degraded through the evening to the point of a cheese fight in the Spanish garden at eleven o’clock. Very bizarre. The press packs included cameras and tubes of Baby Belle. Immediately we were split into two camps, the cheese lovers, and the cheese lobbers, and as we sheltered from the rain on damp wicker chairs there was a half-hearted struggle to either eat the cheese, or get it as far across the garden as possible, depending on the camp in which you found yourself. I think those of us in the cheese loving camp were fairly comprehensively trounced.

It was the launch of Photoshop 7.0, which I’ve already reviewed for this month’s PCW (it was a beta called Liquid Sky at the time) so they were running around with wigs and boas and generally poor taste clothing, taking photos of journalists in compromising positions. This morning they appeared on the web.

Photoshop has some very impressive features, especially the improved clone tool, for ironing out blemishes or lines. I knocked up this demo (right) in under five minutes, and while it’s not perfect, it’s not bad for a first stab. I did another one on a picture of myself for the magazine, which makes me look a bit plastic. I need a bit of practice.

Anyhow, the party would down slowly after ten or so, which is when we moved out into the gardens. The flamingoes were asleep by then, up to their knees in water and with the rain falling down on them. It must be a very miserable existence. We stayed out there until well gone eleven, by which time we were cold and most of the cheese had been lost.

Mark and I left at half twelve and took a cab back to his, where we sat up talking until far too late. Fortunately I was spending the night on his settee, so didn’t have to battle home on trains full of drunk people and sick.

I found a new online game, Character Disorder, that is guaranteed to waste hours of time for anyone who plays it.

Today was spent feeling sleepy while reading a stack of proofs, which is never easy. I drank plenty of coffee to keep awake and came home feeling shaky and too full of caffiene to put my mind to much. An early night, tonight, with the radio.

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