Brain still full of last night's presentation and what I should have said and didn't and what I didn't say and should have. But in fact, the feedback I've had suggested it went really well. Despite the catastrophic PowerPoint failure half way through when all my photos (I had no words in the presentation at all [1]) suddenly turned into white rectangles with red Xs in. What's that about?

As it happens, I had a hard drive in my bag with a version of the slides that was only a day old. It didn't have a couple of late additions but nothing critical. I gave the drive to the guy running the laptop and he managed to have Plan B up and running before I'd finished talking about the picture I was on. Very impressive.

Anyway, that aside, it did go well. Nearly 50 turned up which I was surprised by. The discussion time seemed to get people going (rather than leave some groups in awkward silence as it did on the opening evening of the series). Questions at the end showed people had engaged (even if they did seem to focus on Second Life which was only the last few minutes of the talk). A couple of people talked to me afterwards and when you'd sorted the 'pet theory' rabidness out of some of it, had interesting contributions to make.

[1] Actually, there was - very deliberately - just one word in the whole thing. It was to kind of counterbalance the previous week when we'd the very wordiest kind of PowerPoint with too much text, too small and not a picture in sight.