Just your favourite DJ savior

Saw DJ Shadow live last night at the Brixton Academy. Excellent gig.. Shadow was on form, up on a raised stage with a massive desk of decks, knobs, samplers, and the ubiqitous Apple laptop.
Really nice, well thought-out visual show too. Three panels underneath the raised stage, and six above, forming a square, but with the bottom three usually different, but related, to the rest. (eg. View above ground in the top rectangle, and mechanical systems under the earth controlling it all, in the bottom rectangle.)

Work has been v.v.busy this last week, culminating in my company doing a demo to BBC News and BBC Sports, which went well. I'm really looking forward to the day when we can put this all live to the public, and I can point you to it and say "I made that."

PS. Can anyone identify the tracks used from around 90-100 minutes into this mix? (30th March 2003, DJ Shadow on Radio 1's Essential Mix) From the late 60s by the sound of them.

I've seen the future, brother, and it is murder.

W.T.F. is the Royal Mail up to??

I've had two small parcels sent to me from Cambridge to London recently. (That's about 70 miles for those of you not familiar with the distances.)
Both of these took 4 days to arrive, on the "next day" service. For crying out loud, it's only down the road!

I posted two parcels out to Australia - one on the "normal" service (normally 1-2 weeks), and one on the "slow" service because it was a heavy one (normally takes a couple of months).
The Aussie packages *both* got there in about 7 days. (I'm guessing I scored a "free upgrade" to airmail on the surface-mail one).

So, the long-haul packages travelled at an average speed of 119 km/hr, whereas the packages exclusively handled by the Royal Mail moved at a massive 1.15 km/hr. (OK, so this is easily explained by the fact one of them travelled by air, but still.. it's interesting to try thinking of distances in the world by time-to-post rather than actual physical range. Imagine if Adelaide, Australia really was a little further away than Cambridge? Damn, I'd be on the beach RIGHT NOW!)