Last night we had a pub meet-up at the delightfully medieval pub The Windsor Castle in Notting Hill Gate. We had a good turn out actually, maybe 10/12 people all crammed around the one table. We drank many pints of Paulaner, and by soothing candlelight we discussed soothing topics such as the license.

Regarding the license, the commonly held viewpoint seemed to be "Can we please just get on with it". Obviously we didn't devise any master plan to settle all the disputes, but there was a feeling that there ought to be more peacemakers and people expressing a balanced view point on the mailing list, rather than wild extremes all the time.

Mr randomjunk explained how there are worse things in life than developing Potlatch, like for example developing financial systems for bankers.

Another topic was poo. Now admittedly we didn't dwell on this topic last night, but it was mentioned briefly and I think it's well worth a follow up. Matt accused me of having an obsession, because I've blogged about it once or twice before, but it is an important topic. When I got home last night I did a Type 7, and this got me thinking... Was it caused by the burger I ate at node 448531277 (which may have been undercooked. I wouldn't notice in the candlelight) , or a delayed effect of the pizza I had for lunch at node 569878469. Is there an app for that? An "OpenPooMap" or "Maparrhea" or "Squittracker" to correlate our eating experiences with incidents of unstable stool composition? I know someone did a dog poo map (link?) but what about humans?

yes.... anyway... if you want to join in with these kinds of pub conversations, we've got more pub meet-ups scheduled including the massive...

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That's Friday 11th in Paddington, London. Not to be missed!