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Wednesday
May252011

UKLUG 2011 Pictures

I took a whole heap of pictures of UKLUG 2011 - and put them in this video:

One point to take away. About a third of these are from Sunday, during setup. The first two pictures are of ducks at a service station between Edinburgh and Manchester.

And here's a slightly larger version without a soundtrack, thus adhering to Sony Music Group's bizarre DRM policy. 

Warren, Kitty and the rest of the organisers did a lot of work to make this event successful. Kudos to them!

Oh. And pick the best 'Milky Bar Kid'.. 

Reader Comments (7)

Thank You Bill. I'm going to take a still of me from your film and stick it to the fridge.

May 25, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJason Hook

Even though he wasn't holding the MilkyBar (that I could tell), I vote for McD since he did put his best side forward. ;)

May 25, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterGarrett Wolthuis

Jason, I'll send you the original...

Garret - whilst he should get a prize (or at least a stern warning from the police), it'd be disturbing for him to be the Milky Bar Kid...

---* Bill

May 26, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterBill Buchan

Well I managed not to get told off by the Great Manchester Fuzzies on this UKLUG which is an improvement on the last UKLUG where the Lothian and Borders got a bit cross when my arse called them from by BB during the dangle Mooney out of the window incident. Perhaps the aforementioned body part felt more "involved" on this occasion and did not feel the need to call the "Filth" #win

May 26, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterSteve McDonagh

"I took a whole heap of pictures of UKLUG 2011 - and put them in this video:" ... and then you added a piece of music controlled by Sony Music Entertainment which led to the video not being available in Germany ;-)

May 26, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJoerg Michael

@Joerg - sorry. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't know.

---* Bill

May 27, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterBill

So I'm sitting here innocently EATING LUNCH while watching this... took precisely one minute and twelve seconds to spit food all over my laptop. Nice! :p

May 31, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterfrancie

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