697 September Festival Stuff

Wallingford, Campus Europe Hackathon, Newcastle British Science Festival, Heritage Weekend, Festival Of Thrift Darlington

My New hammock 25cm shorter than old ..maybe OK for me, but too short if you are 170cm tall - to sleep comfortable you need to be in an envelope, so used this trick of putting the tree tie ropes through the outer ties to pull them a bit tighter . Hitching to Wallingford Wednesday hitched to Bunkfest - to Stamford with the tank cleaner to A43. - To Corby with Mr Peaceful Warrior a trucker who is into long distance walking to show society is not full of fear. - to Kettering then had to walk 2 miles to the junction. - To Corby with Mr Peaceful Warrior a trucker who is into long distance walking to show society is not full of fear. - To Northampton with a Druid king of conspiracies, who did drop me right thru town on the Oxford road. - Then Polish truck driver straight A34 so fast missed the Didcot juction. So got down and nice 3.5Km countryside walk across the Ridgeway to the Goring road. Then got a lift to Wallingford so pretty good timing arrived at 5.30pm Campus Europe @ the O2 Graham Cluley at the O2 How Cybercrime Evolved From Back Bedroom Hackers To State-Spons ored Espionage with Graham Cluley - 14:00 - 15:00 Graham is one of the world’s leading experts in viruses and spam. He will chart the evolution of malware writing from the mid 1980s until today, predicting future dangers - Graham maybe, police should patrolling net be looking for FOOTPRINTS in garden & media also spreading the alert when they are found

Hitching Home Plans - Checking future festivals ..some festival schedules have come in : Freethinking, Manchester, Norwich Fringe, Cambridge Ideas etc. I list highlights on the 697a and climate events on 697b BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2013 - 25th – 27th October 2013 The programme is out. But not much interesting to me.. So I won't be going. - 4-20 October Ilkley Literature Festival - I won't be going . I would only be able to see any events if I lived in Bradford ..cos the interesting ones come up days apart & are on late at night after 9pm. - Manchester Science Festival Thursday, 24 Oct- 3 November, 2013 Again the schedule doesn't work well for me ..dates either spread out or coinciding . If I went on Oct 31st I could see 3 events but event then they are spread apart - Cambridge Festival of Ideas Wed 23 October - Sun 3 November : Saturday 26th I could see 5-6 events, Wed 30-31st I could see 4-5 events - Cambridge fest has 5 poss events on Saturday 26 October. - Both Manchester and Cambridge suffere from bad scheduling .. no events then 3 at the same time ..if one lived in the towns then one could see 2-3 events a week ..but one can't binge like at conventional festivals - from 2012 spencer Kelly Saturday 27 October 3:30PM - 5:00PM Are we being sold online? - The thing is the transport from this village is so bad I can only go any of these festivals if there are lots of events one after another & a free place to stay or if I am stopping off on the way to an airport etc. All too often 2-3 events are running at same time. - Heck i just put all the events in Works Calendar, but then to export into Google Calendar is tough cos Google demands a strict format - talks at Battle of Ideas 2013 19 & 20 October London 80 Talks but you can only see 11 max (cos 8 at same time) ..There are only 4 I am interested in so I am not going to be paying the £100 to go Plan Next country : anywhere warm and not expensive. If anyone needs something from the UK they will have to tell me soon, cos I will have to get on a plane soon. Not only is UK winter too cold, but accommodation is incredibly expensive so it's much easy to live in another country. So I have to get catch up with my computer stuff and decide where to go. Actually I am not really bothered which country I go to as long as it's warm, cheap to live and sane. Maybe southern hemisphere .. hope I get some inspiration. - Armenia ? but it's complicated cos by December it will be very cold there and it's not possible to cross into other countries to get south - Iraqi Kurdistan ? easy to visit : 15 day visas are available on arrival in but to stay longer you have to get a Iraqi visa in advance. some notes on 710

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