It's been a busy week for Bubblino. He's been out of the office all week at the Contemporary Urban Centre (not too far away) for the Contemporary Issues in Arts Management conference. It's an annual event, put on by the students of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and covered all sorts of topics from the Digital Economy Bill, through censorship in heavy metal music to opera houses and regeneration.

It's been a transitional week as we switch from flat-out client work to internal projects. Not helped by a number of meetings about new projects; finding a venue for the next Ignite Liverpool evening; and then Good Friday.

Lots of small and disparate but essential things, that break up the flow of work and leave you feeling like not much has been achieved. Next week should be better.

I missed last week's weeknote but although it's been a busy fortnight, there isn't a huge amount report.

Maker Faire UK 2010, which happened just after the last weeknote, was excellent and I wrote up some notes on it separately. Other than writing up that, and a little bit of quoting on new projects, it's been a fortnight of hard graft on the set-top box project.

I think Brian Degger summed things up nicely when he said he could hardly believe it had only been a year since the last Maker Faire. It really doesn't feel like just twelve months since I met Brian, or Aaron (from .:oomlout:.), or any of the multitude of other makers and hackers.

Rather late weeknotes this week (even by my standards), so I'll keep them short lest they get delayed any further.

The main reason they've been delayed is because I've had a full-on three days away in Newcastle over the weekend at Maker Faire.

I'll leave the write-up of the faire until the next weeknote, so last week was mostly getting stuck into the ins and outs of Firefox extensions and plugins. This week it's looking like I'll be modifying/writing a new browser plugin as part of the set-top box project.

A busy week, and a trend that looks set to continue for the next fortnight at least.

A week of steady progress and catching up with old (business) friends.

This week has been a week of starting new projects.

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