If this is Wednesday I must be telling people about Cloud Computing

Monday was the fourth week teaching down at Exeter, and to my pleasant surprise I still seem to have just as many students as I started with. This week we started on patent law, with me trying to give an overview of the whole topic so that the students have some context when I spend the next few weeks going into detail. They seem to have been listening as they coped well with some basic 'could your client patent this?' questions in the subsequent tutorial, and even asked some good questions of their own. Talking of questions though, I've just had it confirmed that I do have to write part of their exam (which I expected) - first step, get some past papers so I have some idea of how hard to make it!

I came home via the Westminster Skeptics meeting, where I hooked up with clanwilliam to watch the 'political blogging' event. A good write-up here, but I like J's pithy summary: "it actually turned into a comment flame war, live on stage!"

Yesterday was spent at a Cloud Computing conference near Tower Hill. (The basement conference suite we were in had a section of London Wall running through it.) The conference is finishing off today with an entire day dedicated to legal issues. I'm not the keynote speaker - but I am on the first item after him.