Mini Shard Protest update

Honestly? Southern Trains caused a huge amount more disruption and fuss today...

...this lot will be lucky if anyone even notices, especially when the hoard starts to pour around them on the big commute home again...on a normal day there are more people sat there having a smoke than there are people protesting today...bit of an anti-climax really...

Protest at the Mini Shard 23rd March

Yep, so a bit worried what the office would be like this morning (as there is an "Occupy" protest due to happen this week, starting today)...

...the answer?  A bit of scaffolding around the escalators covered in anti-climb paint, a bit of glue on the windows (I guess to make it easy to remove any spray paint/permanent marker pens), a *lot* more security guards and a lot more police...and basically nothing else!

I guess it's tough to get up early in the morning and commute to a protest eh?

Update - According to Facebook it's at 11:30am that they plan to "Take  the space"...let's see what happens! ;)

Update update - You can watch the protest live here - http://bambuser.com/v/5372441 (their cameras)

Eclipse pictures from London Shard 2015

So we all gathered on the terrace on the 14th floor to have a look and see what (if anything) we could see of the eclipse...(it was very cold and super windy up there - and I didn't bring my coat so I didn't want to stay long) -

- and actually it did get really quite dark, it was definitely twilight, all the buses and taxis put on their headlights, looking out over London you could see loads of other groups of people gathered on rooftops -

- but thanks to that "toxic smog" from Russian factories, the actual sun itself was completely impossible to pin point (bit of a shame) -

- oh well, there is always 2090! ;)

Cthulhu - The London Times

...as observed today, sat at my desk in the News Building...

Now where is my Elder sign, please tell me I didn't leave it on the tube?!!

Wow, got to see an Enigma Machine today!

Yeah, an actual real one - in the office up on the 14th floor (right there on a desk!) - don't worry, I didn't leave sticky fingerprints all over it...super cool though... ;)

UPDATE!! Did get to leave sticky fingerprints on it, with permission though! Got a full training session on how to encode and decode (and I was the operator)!







Sweet! ;)