Lex Ferenda

1. How exactly, when cold weather is predicted well in advance, can Dublin Airport Authority and Ryanair manage to leave a plane - full of grumpy passengers - stuck on the tarmac for two hours “waiting for the de-icer”? At about the 90-minute mark, we were told that ‘the machine ran out of fluid’ and would be along shortly. You’d think this was the first cold snap in a generation.
   • Apparently, one of the machines broke down in the early morning. Pity they didn’t tell us that before putting us on a plane and saying that the machine ‘would be along shortly’.
2. Say you organise a conference that thousands of media-industry people (techies, managers, buyers, etc) are attending. And you promise free Wifi. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if, seemingly, no Mac users were able to connect to it?

Otherwise, though, my little field trip to Videoforum went well - I do have notes, having been foiled in my attempts at live blogging. They’ll come tomorrow.