I went and had a look at the Ark today. It's a big ark-shaped building on the A4, just at Hammersmith Broadway. It was pretty cool. I was just cheekily looking around the side when a 50-something white suit guy stopped me and asked what I was doing. When I told him however, that I was just looking at the building, he agreed that it was pretty cool and we talked about the inside a little bit. It was a pleasant encounter with a nice guy.

Looking at the pictures on that site, it looks even cooler inside. I have to get in there!

It's Monday in the UK.

I spent the week working in Norwich. It was great to fit back into the old pattern. Thanks to everything being based at Thickthorn, there was none of the stress that made City Road so hard at the end. I got lots done, designed an intranet. I'm even quite proud of my design, although I think later pages in the set may be tending towards link chaos a bit much. Got to tidy that up.

Insane as it may sound, what we are trying to acheive with Arena4 and this new intranet project is to get people to interact as well as they do in social situations like down the pub etc, when they are really relaxed. The key, as we see it, is to drive a core of social features through the usual business tools. Both are as important as each other.

So anyway, that was what I was up to last week. On Saturday we went to the cricket at Chelmsford to see Essex vs Warwickshire. It was an excuse to drink beer and have a picnic really. The picnic was great. Mart made a metric tonne of sandwiches. I made a big tub of cous cous and a batch of pigs in blankets and brought a bunch of crisps and a pork pie. Then Louise and Adam and Charlie turned up with even more sandwiches and all manner of exotic delights, stuffed vine leaves, antipasto, Green & Black's and much much more. Topped off with beer and good conversation, I think we annoyed the people near quite a bit. It was great fun though, and the weather just made it an incredibly pleasant afternoon.

After we went to Norm's Nan's house to chill out. We drank and ate more and collected loads of plums from her trees. She's in a home now and the plums were ridiculously ripe, they would have gone to waste if we hadn't turned up and gladly started munching on them. We came away with a fat bag of them. We're going to make jam. How civilised can you get!

Many many thanks to Norm, Martin, Lisa, Rich, Helen and Mat for letting me stay last week and making the whole thing great fun. I miss you guys already.

ssh -L 5548:127.0.0.1:548 user@host

If the box you're SSHing to is the machine you want to Appletalk to. Awesome. Otherwise change 127.0.0.1 to the name of the server you want to talk to as the remote machine sees it.

The initial 5548 part is a port on your machine that will become the gateway to the remote box. I chose 5548 because you don't have to be root to bind to it and it's moderately memorable. In the style of 8080. Anyway. To connect go to Finder and do Apple-K as normal. Then enter the URL afp://localhost:5548/. The SSH terminal session must be active for the forwarding to be open, unfortunately.

And now here I am, stuck in the wilds of Norfolk. I've been sequestered to Norwich to work on a project.

I spent all evening drawing a Routemaster bus in Photoshop. I used a image off the web as a template and the final result looks quite good. The problem is it needs to fit into a design somehow and I can't get the other bits right.

I miss Louise, who is bed back in London now. She came up for the weekend, but seems to have left me behind!

I swam 1500m today, with stops every 300m. It took nearly an hour and a half, so whilst I can sprint at a good 3km/h, I can only maintain a pace of 1km/h and probably not for much longer than an hour and a half.

I found a place in Fulham that sells running shoes and actually bothers to fit them so I don't kill my feet. I may well head down there tomorrow and check it out. I might end up running more than swimming because I don't have to spend ages dechlorinating my hair afterwards. Plus I'm more likely to just speed out for half an hour than go for a swim as when I pay to get into the pool I like to stay for a while. Running and then going into the pool sounds pretty good though.

Louise's ex-personal trainer friend the lovely Megan says that I could burn off my relatively small beer gut by doing 20 minutes proper exercise three times a week. I don't care that much about the podge. I'm more concious that as I get older it's more important to be in the habit of being proactive about exercise. As I'm freelance, I have to plan it into my day or I start getting fidgety.

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