Just watched Across The Great Divide, it made me think about how little I got into local music while I was in the UK. It was a mistake, local music everywhere is good and should be embraced.

I've just looked through the photos from the Madgex party photos and a couple of things struck me.

• I can keep in touch with my friends who are geographically disparate.
• I've never given a lot of credence with the sociology and other humanity studies that have been going on into how technology is advancing at a rate greater than we can adopt it. Until tonight, when looking through the photos, I was struck by the idea that Jane had put them on flickr for the local Brightonians and the medium used to tell them about it also allowed me to "listen in". The thought of listening in made me wonder if I should be looking through the photos, if it was some how an invasion of my friends personal space.
  
• No matter how connected you are with people digitally, nothing counts for physical time.
  

This all brought me to the following conclusions:

• Technology is reducing the distance between people, but it isn't quite there. It misses some of the intimacies and that I guess exacerbates the distance, not being able to talk to people or see them dulls them, seeing and hearing them just out of reach is some times harder.
• How does the speed of adoption allow people to understand and fully comprehend what they are immersing themselves in?
• Being along way away from friend is still pants
• The party looked good.
• Seeing happy people you know is a wonderful feeling.