Yesterday was The Multipack's first birthday which made the whole thing a little more special. In fact, so special we all got free cake and wine. @media eat your heart out; if anyone is going to get web geeks fat and drunk it's going to be Multipack.

It was good to see the usual faces plus, and there must have been about twenty of us in total patronising the Wharf10 bar, which is in a fairly nice part of the town from what I could establish. The only other time I've ever been to Walsall was for the illuminations, a bastion of culture in the West Midlands.

There are a considerable amount of jobs I need to sort out today for friends. I've got some university samples to email, some people to phone (Jon where are you?) and one or two other things critical to me surviving the weekend.

I think I forgot to mention that on Thursday this week I went back into OSH (the old school) on request of my old technology head of department to speak to some fifth years about uni and what it's like. The next day (I don't know if coincidently or not) I got a letter from their new head of business asking if I would like to be of any assistance to them. I enjoy passing on the knowledge, so I'll be replying.

I spoke to Currin yesterday, and so I need to correct something I said earlier. I was totally misguided when I said that as a result of this enterprise programme he would be spending time at Berkley in California. Apparently not. Instead (once he's finished dining in parliament and meeting the cabinet) he will be spending time at Harvard then at Stanford Business Schools. Nice one. I think it's fair to say that boy has landed on his feet; well done DDS :)