Saturday snow in Shepherds Bush.

Just started snowing in Shepherds Bush – and it’s sticking!

Over the next month the decision will be made on the venue for WordCamp UK 2011.

This follows a bidding process, during which submissions have been made which aim to meet or exceed the 2011 venue requirements.

The two bids are:

• High Wycombe – John Read has proposed accommodating the event at the Buckinghamshire New University.
• Portsmouth – Rich Boakes has bid to hold the event at the University of Portsmouth.

The WordCamp UK mailing list (registration required) will be considering the bids and selecting a winner by 17 January 2011.

More details are on the WordCamp UK wiki.

Please note the final name of the event, the follow-up to WordCamp UK 2010, will be subject to change.

I’ve been rewatching the updated, contemporary, witty, knowing, intricate, stylish, brilliant, modern, reinvented, exciting, fun, imaginative, enjoyable, excellent, fantastic, brilliant, intriguing, wonderful, gripping, thrilling, entertaining, engaging, clever, gripping BBC series of Sherlock.

Definitely one of the best television series of 2010.

2010 Christmas lights in Shepherds Bush.

The quality of pedestrian signs in the UK is generally quite poor.

So it’s good to see Legible London signs, already seen in some parts of the West End, being introduced into the bustling environs of Shepherds Bush.

Toni Schneider, of Automattic, at Web 2.0 Summit 2010.

John Maeda speaking at TED in March 2007.