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Friday night was a HellCommute. Terrible traffic from Sutton to the M25, explained by the closure of the slip road onto the M25. After that? A 90 minute or so diversion around Crawley and Horsham before I finally joined the A23 and made my way home. I never got around to finding out what happened, until I read this on Kat Arney's blog this morning:

Unfortunately Chris and Mary never made it. They’d got stuck in the worst traffic jam on the M25 for years, and ended up motionless for four or five hours.

The worst traffic jam on the M25? Ah-ha:

The M25 in Surrey has reopened in both directions after being shut for more than 24 hours following a crash in which a lorry hit the central reservation and collided with a car.
Three people were badly hurt in the crash, between junctions seven with the M23 and eight with the A217, on Friday.

Mystery solved. The internet: bringing me the things I forgot to look up.

A-maze-ing Maize

Sunday by the Cam

Beautiful morning in Shoreham Beach

Commute begins

The mothership

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Sinister…

Nothing more important than the views of communters…

One of my favourite features of Shoreham Beach is its plant life. As barren as it looks in winter, come the spring it burts into a riot of colour and life. I missed the best of it this year, but I thought even the fading beauty of early summer was worth recording:

[vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26971752](http://www.vimeo.com/26971752) w=550&h=309] 

So this is the challenge to RSA Fellows: As well as wanting to use Fellowship as a way of making the world a better place, you are innovative and many of you experts in social media. How about a group of Fellows putting together a Catalyst bid for seed funding to develop a social enterprise addressing this issue and offering services to local and police authorities? Such a bid could seek to engage the support and skills of staff in our John Adam Street Projects team who are expert in social network mapping.

via www.matthewtaylorsblog.com

I'm a Fellow. I know a thing or two about social media. It's a great idea for a project.

Do I have time…?

Hmm.

I'm having one of those days, looking forward to a free hour or so, sandwiched between a day's working on a report for work, and an evening raiding with my Warcraft guild.

However, I grabbed a little time over lunch to edit and upload a little video I shot while walking along the Thames on Friday evening, on the way to meeting friends in a pub. It was a glorious, sunny, summer's evening, and it felt just wonderful to be meandering along the river amongst the rush of Friday night humanity. Here's my attempt to capture it:

[vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26864855](http://www.vimeo.com/26864855) w=500&h=281] 

I'm really enjoying creating these little "video photographs" of an experience, a moment in time, even if no-one else cares. :)

Abandoned underwear. Bet there’s a story there…

[vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26844743](http://www.vimeo.com/26844743) w=525&h=295]

New TwiT on a new OS

Bridge over quite calm really waters

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Lots of #likeminds breakfasting