We have a winner!

Unbridled joy abounded at Cranmore school this weekend when the lad took to the field for his first ever football tournament. The Donhead year 1 side came through the group stage unbeaten and having conceded only one goal and put 4 past one unfortunate opposition. 

A pretty convincing semi-final win over the Millbourne set up a nervy final with the Rokeby A side who had an impressive record to that point. A sturdy performance saw the opposition pinned back for much of the match but the Donhead defence maintained their shape to cope with a few counter-attacking breaks.

Suffice to say, the mighty Donhead prevailed with a 2-1 win and much slightly-embarrassing parental jumping up and down ensued. After much clapping and quite a few photos (see above) we eventually went home puffing with pride and full of glee. Well done to all the boys - an excellent achievement and much fun for us too!

Media widgetised and ROW

Well last week was a whistlestop week - at least in terms of the number of events and late nights I seemed to have, so I lost my way with the blog a little! Wednesday night saw the second installment of widget week in the chinwag event where a panel discussed widgetisation, intermediation and distributed advertising models.

There were some interesting discussions and points made but I thought the good news was we haven't missed anything just yet. The same questions were popping up amongst an engaged audience and there still seems to be opportunity and ambiguity around in spades. The entertaining HeGe from Nokia and WidSets, an enlightened and enlightening BT representative George, and the ever effusive chair lead the way.

After a few attempts to define a widget (probably the most succint of which, and certainly the only one I recall in its entirety, is 'a tear off of another site') the panel followed some Q&A making a welcome change from the 8 or so uninterrupted presentations that made up MoMo on monday.

We ended up having dinner with HeGe, the lovely Jenny and Priya who turned out to be good friends with my old friend Matt Postgate (whom I should congratulate on his new appointment - congratulations!). That was followed by a trip to Adam Street, wandering into the doubleclick party and then meeting a fellow member of the Millar clan over a martini or two. What was more surprising was that I had never Fran before...

Thursday a much deserved night off, and Friday some dealings with the chaps at DotNetSolutions and Microsoft before a quick trip to Lianne's leaving do and a Curry back at the ranch. ROW just stood for Rest Of Week...