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Still refusing to pay 10 Pounds for a day of net service, so I am reduced to using a coin-op browser in the hotel lobby. The main problem with that at the moment is that it seems impossible to cut and paste on this machine. But…

Drew sent an e-mail about what I said concerning the outsourcing of videogame play abroad. Apparently this is a well-known phenomenon based on what Drew said, though I didn’t realize it. He adds that the practice offends the sense of meritocracy among gameplayers, and provided a link that I am unable to copy and paste for the aforementioned reason.

On the ANTHEM blog, you can find a link to a review of Prince of Networks. I read the review but, again, cannot paste it here.

Weird coincidence this morning at breakfast… A youngish-looking woman approached and greeted me, and it took a few seconds before I realized, out of context, that it was indeed someone I know. Even weirder, she is someone that one might expect to attend a conference such as this, but she wasn’t even aware of the existence of the conference. She was in Manchester for a (successful) job interview, and stayed in the same hotel purely by chance.