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Monday

It's going to be a quiet week in the office. Lots of people are out at a mix of conferences and training courses so there's just four of us at the stand-up. Tris disappears at lunchtime to get the train up to Manchester; he's visiting R&D North Lab tomorrow.

I've finally written up my notes from the Mythology Retrospective - need to share these with the wider team and book a Signatures retro. We've been slack about doing these and need to get back into the habit.

Tuesday

Duncan's looking at scheduling stuff for Microblogging, but it's clear we need to understand the UX plans in more detail to make sure there's nothing too complex in there. Sam has extended the Tree of Life LIMO demo to include a prototype send-chapter-link feature.

Tris has a busy day in R&D North; some demos of subtitle searching, ambisonics and time-synced data and a visits to the Red Button team to see some Wii prototypes.

We decide we would definitely like an office dashboard like this one: .

Wednesday

We've identified five technical spikes we need to complete on Microblogging and are clear on what the first iteration of use case 2 will be. Hopefully it all fits with Glen's underlying infrastructure.

Tristan and George have a good meeting with the Music team about Coventry, it looks like it could fit into their plans really well and we're pleased with this. We're slightly underwhelmed by our second big demo of the day, well, you can't win them all. We're really pleased that we've been given the go-ahead to share some of our recent projects via this blog - stayed tuned.

Vicky puts up the first of a series of blog posts about multi-touch. Watch out for more.

Duncan is having a quick look at to see if we could use it to visualise our Microblogging data. Chris B has been modifying the algorithm he's using to normalise music trending data which should mean our charts make more sense.

Sam is continuing preparation for the P2P-Next meeting in Brussels next week; looks like this will take up most of his week.

Thursday

Michael S is in the office today because we were hoping to have a mini hackday around project POAF but unfortunately not enough people turn up, so instead we start to scope it out. It seems do-able but it's probably a bit bigger than a hackday.

Yet another person arrives in the office to measure up space for our new bookcase: that's the fifth and counting, how hard can it be?

We've got renewed impetus on Coventry and the tech spike has shown that most of it is possible. Next week we're going to work out exactly what we're going to deliver this month. We're thinking it will be a single-screen interface highlighting content that is trending, but there's some interesting issues in the design (in its broadest sense) to be addressed about how we represent and communicate it.

We finish the day off by sticking some existing project ideas up on the board, it's a bit sparse but we start to fill it up and in the process get some new ones too.

Friday

Chris N is back in today and is catching up on where we've got to on Coventry. He's been on a course at our Wood Norton training centre for a few days, learning about broadcast technologies.

Year end is looming so I've spent the morning making sure our finances are up to date; we've got a meeting about it with Caroline later.

This week has seen lots of people out of the office as they plan future work, or work with colleagues in other areas - all good stuff, but it's made it hard to make progress on our work. Fingers crossed we'll be back to normal next week.