Postkiwi Duncan Macleod

I feel almost a bit guilty about my response to the London bombings. There’s an anxiety that comes from familiarity with people and places. It’s not that long since we were watching Live 8 in London (on TV for most of us). Ross Alexander, who Ennis and I looked after in his teenage years, is living in London working with NEC. I’ve emailed him to check he’s OK. But there’s the recognition that I don’t feel the same concern when bombs go off in cities further away from my circles of acquaintance.

I see Technorati.com is down. Wonder if there’s any connection? Probably the number of blog posts that need to be monitored right now. Technorati tells us that there more than 1300 posts about the blast by 1015 GMT. Mobile phone networks aren’t working. So people are using services like Flickr.

Jason Clark, generating diverse and healthy conversations about church, has posted a prayer inspired by David Cohen.

Turns out Ross is fine. He heard the news at work. So now he’s wondering how he’ll get home if the London Transport system is down.

I see politicians are not ready to place blame, though they agree on this being a despicable, evil act because of its impact on civilians. The press have pointed to the similarities to the Al Qaeda attacks in Madrid. I just hope this is not connected with the protests against globalization. It would not help their cause.