A high-intensity singing weekend

So - Thursday evening - Ange and I were two of the soloists in Mozart's Solemn Vespers with The Deal And Walmer Handelian Society with our friend Peter conducting - the concert went very well and the audience seemed to enjoy it. It was in St. Andrew's Church, Deal - a very high Anglican affair with incense, stations of the cross, statues of the Virgin Mary etc. Very beautiful inside though.

On Friday we sang in this term's Cantemus concert - a programme of a mass by Victoria (Missa surge propera), a short song by Janacek and rather too many madrigals - on reflection, I should have cut a couple that I had volunteered the small group to do. Again - the concert went well and we were in another beautiful church, this time St. Martin's, Canterbury - the oldest church in continous use in the UK and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site with Canterbury Cathedral and St. Augustine's Abbey.

Still in St.Martin's, this time as part of the Queen Bertha singers (she used the church in the 7th Century) I sang for a wedding on Saturday (Jesu, joy of man's desiring, Bach) and also a Eucharist on Sunday morning.

After that, I was very glad for coffee with the group in the Goods Shed and then lunch at home and asleep during some tennis and the US Grand Prix.

I almost didn't notice the football.

Sigh.

Here I am doing my demo

A live internet demonstration to my department that actually worked (mostly).

Photo for my profile

  

Preparing the laptop

So - here I am preparing the work Viglen Dossier to give my demo of Web 2.0 things tomorrow. My demo is to show my colleagues in Communications & Development at the University of Kent some new technologies and Web 2.0 products that might help us sell the University and might help us work better together. First thing to set up is favourites to the things I'm going to demo:

• Blogger
  http://www.blogger.com/
• My blog - Air de cour
  http://airdecour.blogspot.com/
• Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org
• Apple iTunes and Podcasts
  http://www.apple.com/itunes/
• Frappr
  http://www.frappr.com/c/user/createamap
• Flickr
  http://www.flickr.com/
• Del.icio.us
  http://del.icio.us/

I'm also going to use a few blogs of people I know and pop them in the nav bar of this page and use Wikipedia to explain blogging, podcasting, Web 2.0 and web feeds. IWMW 2006 tried to use loads of these things this year - I'll use that as an example of how these technologies could help us work together.

Showing people how to blog

I've foolishly offered to demonstrate blogging to my colleagues at work - the one main point I want to make is how easy it is to post without knowing any code or any specialist technology at all - fabulous. Will it catch on?

London by night (whilst on a boat and a bit drunk)

Here is my first post - a strange picture of the London Eye from a boat when a bit drunk - it was the night of my friend Sara's wedding reception on the Silver Dolphin from the Savoy Pier.