I’ve spent the last six days in Windsor at the Guards Polo Club putting in lighting for the Rock the Polo event hosted by Chinawhites. It’s generally been a fun few days but the actual event was somewhat stuck up.

People with hideous amounts of money seem to have no shame and do as they please. We saw two burnt out cars on the way back in yesterday morning and on the way home on Sunday night there were plenty of fights and people stealing things.

Just goes to show, money doesn’t buy you dignity, respect or class.

Towns and cities around the world are turning out the lights for an hour to highlight the threat of climate change.

Sydney was the first major city to begin “Earth Hour”, when at 2000 (0900 GMT), lights went out on landmarks like the Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

Lights were then turned off in Bangkok, Manila, Budapest, Copenhagen and Dublin as those cities joined the effort.

I can’t really see the point in this exercise. The majority of architectural and shop lighting is discharge lighting, which when turned on has an initial surge that is far greater than it’s running current. This alone, across the amount of lights that were turned off, would probably still use up a good proportion of the power they would use with the lights still on.

I personally think all architectural lighting should be switched off at around midnight - 2am. Whenever I’m working late in London, I’m always surprised by how much lighting is still on when no one is around. I appreciate that London is a huge tourist attraction and certain areas can look good at night when lit. But how many tourists realistically walk around London after 2am?

If you really want to make a dent in the power consumption market and prove that you’re green, turn your buildings lights off for more than an hour.

I quite enjoy my job. I get access to some rather unique places and occasionally the odd office block. Today I’m in the Ernst & Young building in London Bridge doing some lighting for a charity event they’re staging in aid of Sport Relief.

It’s a fairly straight forward number. Think Strictly Come Dancing, low budget, charity and you’ve pretty much nailed it. There is a perk, the freshly made food by their chef. Lovely.

It looks like the Ofcom debacle is finally coming to a close.

The future of live events, concerts, festivals and theatre shows could be secured thanks to a u-turn by Ofcom.

The regulator has said it will look again at proposals to auction off the spectrum which radio microphones that power such events rely on.

Or is it? L&SI Online:

Ron Bonner, technical resources manager for PLASA, speaking for BEIRG, has said that while this is an important step in the right direction, there is still a great deal of work for BEIRG to do to ensure that sufficient spectrum allowance is made for the PMSE sector. He went on to say, “whilst to the casual observer this may appear as an Ofcom U-turn as suggested by other headlines recently published, the devil is in the detail and Ofcom still hold the opinion that a market-led approach is still an option for this industry.

It will nice to eventually wrap this up, but as with all things politics, this could take a while.

In just over twelve hours I will be winging my way to Dublin for a working weekend.
It should be good as I’m not paying for a thing and we should be checking out some bars from the moment we get there.