Ducks, Wibloging and SCM

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Date: 28 February 2005 18:54:55

I'm going to try to update more regulally now...try being the important word.

Anyway, last weekend I went to a SCM conference in the lovely village of Castleton (previously remembered as a rainy evil geography field trip place), where an awful lot of things happened.

Two of those things fit my mood at the moment, one of them is the fact that I spent hours (and I mean hours) playing Risk. Which I'm sure is a normal thing for some people - but for me, spending 8 hours playing a boardgame (or, more accurately watching other people play risk after a sucidal mission to capture austrailia will all of my troups at about 6am).

The odd thing about playing risk was that I was sitting in the conference of a movement that is known for being woolly and liberal, having made banners for protests, and played games about fair trade, planning to take over the world, with a few odd political comments thrown in for good mesure. It was fun.

The other of the things was the ducks song. I heard the ducks song late on saturday night, and thought it was cool but didn't say so at the time. Now I can't get it out of my head having googled and found that Neil Gaiman got an MP3 of it put up here : http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/images/om/JB/SinisterDucks-MarchoftheSinisterDucks.mp3

Very odd, very very odd.