Last night I trawled up to TheOldPlace who were hosting a 'computing' lecture. I went with a couple of computing academics and it turned out the speaker was actually one of our old students. Now working for IBM. As a 'metaverse evangelist'.

It was on the subject of Second Life (and how businesses use it although that didn't seem to be the main focus). He did a great presentation which was interesting, informative and insightful. I could have listened to him for longer even though it was late, I was very tired and facing a long trip home. One highlight was this machinima which he showed us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA
but there was lots of other good stuff and I believe we're now hoping to get him to come and talk down in our neck of the woods.