Long time, no Blog. I must admit that I was rather put off by the live-blog-feed experiment a month or so ago when Planet GridPP got saturated by blogs - any one of which would have been interesting but all together they were rather mind numbing. Anyway, I did want to take this opportunity to plug GridPP21 at Swansea in the first week of September. Last year we went to Ambleside, which many of you will remember as an excellent and relaxing meeting. This year, the South Wales coast should be a good encore especially if the weather obliges! The collaboration dinner, sponsered by IBM, is at highly recommended restaurant in The Mumbles (or Y Mwmbwls, as we Welshmen call it!). Registration is now open at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp21/ . On other matters, the programmatic review has now run it's course; there are two outcomes for GridPP which are rather contradictory: On the one hand we ended up with a 5% cut; and on the other, our rating got adjusted to the highest priority (after the cut!). Anyway, we are now in the calm between the storms - the programmatic review is behind us and the LHC data is before us!
