[3] Some Final Weirdness: University of Sussex Men's Rooms, Complete with Crest and Motto "Be Still and Know". What the?Phew. So that was AoIR 2004 [4]. It's a pity that conferences like these always end a little anticlimactically - with people leaving at various times on Wednesday, there was little opportunity to say goodbye to anyone. Technological issues aside, this was a good conference with some excellent papers, and it's good to engage so closely with fellow Internet researchers. Especially the blogging stream has come a long way since 2003, and it's interesting how it has developed - last year in Toronto, quite a few people focussed on the Howard Dean campaign or the use of blogs as personal diaries, but this time around there was far more variety and depth. I would have loved to have seen many more of the papers in various other sessions I wasn't able to get to - looking forward to reading them when the conference archives go online.

[5]View from My Hotel RoomBack in Brighton and connected through the wireless Piertopier.net [6], I've now posted all of my blog entries from the conference; I'll upload more images when I have full access again! Back in Brighton now, where preparations for the UK Labour party convention in a hotel a few doors down from mine are now in full swing. Plenty of police around, patrolling the perimeter and setting up security barriers - I'm glad I'm out of here before this starts in earnest. Off to London tomorrow for half a day of sightseeing, and then on to the long flight back to Brisbane.

[7]When Did It All Go Wrong?