School Admissions Online meeting at Thistle Hotel, near Victoria Station with representatives of Office of Deputy Prime Minister and DfES. Arrived in good time, despite some track circuit problems around Twyford. All seems generally disorganised. Found representative from Wiltshire who are the lead authority in our consortium. Chatted briefly before start of meeting.
Seems the goalposts have moved even further, with ODPM now wanting individual LEAs to 'bid' for development rights of little arbitrary bits of the entire system. No-one except people who already had some sort of system up and running seemed unduly interested in getting involved with rapid application development at our collective busiest time! Left earlier than expected, feeling a little negative - we certainly can't be involved in the development process, but I suppose remaining in the consortium would at least give us early access to whatever gets developed. Vague ideas about inventing our own way of doing things...
A rare thing indeed that I'm in London with time to spare, but I'm too dejected to use it.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
