The first Dynamo Hackathon – Through the Interface

What. A. Week.

The first day of the world’s first Dynamo Hackathon was an appropriate way to finish off a hectic but super-rewarding week.

I work up early, this morning, and took a stroll around Hyde Park.

View from the hotel

My hotel was on Lancaster Gate

Statue in Hyde ParkBlossoms in Hyde ParkI checked out from my hotel, picking up my cufflinks, on the way. (In a random episode during check-in, the afternoon before, I’d lent them to a fellow hotel guest – who was dressed to the nines for a charity event but had managed to leave all five pairs of his own cufflinks at home. The hotel didn’t have any, but I overheard and offered him mine, asking that he return them to the reception when he came back after dinner. I was a little apprehensive – all I knew was that his name was Tom, which probably wouldn’t have been enough to track him down, in case – but my faith in human nature was confirmed when they were waiting for me at check-out. It was interesting to hear the hotel staff tell me how shocked they were at this small gesture… in fairness the…

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