[James]

.....But there was also a tall man who had spiky hair there, who I thought looked vagueley familiar. I couldn't think why. Turns out that he was Eugene Sully, the radio engineer from Big Brother last year.

And, sadly, turns out that he and I spent at least an hour swapping humorous stories (to us) about audio processing, Klotz desks, how to pronounce 'Skype' (I claim, only for humorous effect, that it is pronounced Sky-pee: he claims, only for humorous effect, that Logitech starts with the word 'Log'), how to calculate your radio name (clue: his is Eugene Marks), and other such embarrassing boringness that only two men outside of earshot of female company would find amusing.

Whether he's a nice man or just a little bonkers is hard to tell, but anyone who jumps up and down in delight when telling me that his new Sony Ericsson phone is so bad at multitasking that it has to pause MP3 playback to resize a jpeg is okay in my book. The most non-showbiz showbiz person I've ever met.

http://james.cridland.net/blog/