I love Brighton and I loved dConstruct last year when I came for the first time. So it was hugely exciting to get an unexpected email inviting the Jam Jar Collective to come and show off FriiSpray. The Jam Jar Collective are a group of geeks and artists interested in making interactive stuff and FriiSpray is an interactive graffiti wall that we made. The rest of them couldn't make it down, so my good friend Dave is helping me instead.

I always like to see behind the scenes, but when I arrived today with my suitcase full of projectors and laptops all the doors at the Brighton Dome …

Yesterday I went to my second OpenCoffee event. I've not done a lot since the last one, but this is mainly because I've been away to the exceedingly hot Zakynthos.

This is the fourth OpenCoffee they've had. I'm wondering how long they'll be able to keep up with the {quattro} naming convention. I'd be lost by the time we get to double figures.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun and met a lot of interesting and great people. I met less people this time, but talked to them more. It was great to find people with similar interests and find out what they were up to.

I've started a little scrap book of …

I went to OpenCoffee Leeds {Tre} yesterday to sample the coffee, cake and geeky conversation. All were excellent, although I got there a bit late and missed the best cake.

I met a lot of interesting people and collected a lot of business cards. I’m not completely sure I’d be able to match faces to cards now. Hopefully I’ll see many of them again. I tried to talk to as many people as possible, but this meant that I only talked very briefly to some people.

I also tried out my new origami business cards, which seemed to go down well. A few people suggested the excellent idea of making them a bit …

Went to geekUp Leeds last night. Had a lot of fun and met some interesting people, although I've forgotten all their names.

There were a lot more people than I expected. Who would have known there were so many geeks in Leeds. Guess we normally hide away.

I wasn't able so stay long, so I didn't get to chat to most people. Hopefully I'll get a better chance at the next one.