Buy the Guardian today (Tuesday) � a major treatment of AIDS in Africa is promised.

They are playing Jamaican music on the digital Young Asian Radio station.

I woke up and listened to various half formed pieces. I have suggested to Gilbert that we see whether we have 10 other non SS pieces in a fit state to roll � we may have just about achieved that but they are not all yet sitting in the same file. In fact they are scattered all over this PC.

There was a meeting this afternoon on Watling Street. I drove up the M42 until it met the Roman Road then South East along it. It was a pretty day. I looked North up the valley which carries the water from the River Blythe towards the River Trent which carries water flowing down from the Peak District into the Humber. The meeting was very constructive even though I think I probably garbled the dates. We can still have the meeting on Monday 17 March � Richard O Connor � the project manager on the Automotive Academy was involved today along with Professor Callow. We covered some very fertile ground � especially the development and deepening of the 20 year technology road map

Keith was back at work after his operation � still slightly hampered by all the things that they had done to him � but it was really good to see him back.

I starting listening to the Seaview CDs which I got yesterday and I mailed Alison with some ideas about tie-ups with Music for the Highveld. I can already hear stuff from the sampler that would easily go into the Lullabyes CD. Paul W mailed to say that he thought that his L had come out OK � the sense of all these different elements coming together was encouraging. I posted some stuff on www.kwase-kwaza.org which explains very clearly how important this project is.

It seems to be that people are still digesting what on earth the last week�s events amount to. I would say that in the UK Government is still very much in the area of �Something is Happening and You Don�t Know What It Is, Do You Mr Blair?�. This level of openness and systenatic dislocation doesn�t happen very often � once or twice every 30 years. Nick thinks that afterwards there will a clearing of the confusion and a new world order will have emerged. I told James at the weekend that this is probably as close to on-line history as he�ll get before he starts his studies. Jacob�s diary comments are very much to the point in terms of the �meaning of the March�. Mark Thomas was on the PM programme � relishing how the situation is unfolding.

So while war is more censored than ever � the images appear 10 years late as in Friday�s Guardian � the imagination isn�t . The balletic violence of action movies fuels people�s opposition to state violence. The Guardian felt it had to justify those images � amazing to see press freedom used with such seditious intent.

I posted various attempts to say what this is. One view is that its all about the relationship between those parts of the world where government works and those bits where it doesn�t � the fight between order and chaos. The US author says that the Chinese are wrong in thinking that they don�t have to take a stand � as they clearly have an enormous stake in order. You can extend this model to say that at the �disordered� end of the spectrum are the unruely elements in the Republican Administration who think that the world is theirs to play with without principle or constraint. This is linked to the �third� concept of Freedom � which emerged when some of the Patrician Romans just got fed up with the waywardness of some of the emperors. Nick�s friend � whose name escapes me � suggests that this provides a rationale (say) for the execution of Charles I. Its also an issue in the crucifixion. TB may be well into the wayward zone on this one.

I snatched some stuff from the New York Times site � there�s a facility which gives you the articles which have been most copied in the last 24 hours � a kind of Bloggers Top 10 � quite a powerful meta-concept.

I came back from Watling Street over the high ground around Nuneaton. It is an extraordinary zone. I came across a real working coal mine � not often you see one of these anywhere in the UK, This one was out in a wild rural landscape. It must be a Southern outlier of the Nottinghamshire coalfield which so influenced D H Lawrence eg when the miners are chased from the gates of the big house in Women in Love. As I drove back into Leamington a pink moon rose over Fosse Way.

I keep listening to Blisters � something is beginning to crystallise out about how we approach abstract music.

It suddenly dawned on me why we were so well received in the Muslim North Indian restaurant on Mill Road.