My 30-day Travel Pass ran out yesterday…so this week each trip costs twenty kronor. Apart from the psychological benefits of free trips you break-even on the 30-day card if you average a one-way trip a day…I probably averaged around a dozen a week so was quids in. Today however I had to get to Norrtälje an hour north of Stockholm for a business meeting with Alan at eleven. I was expecting it to cost me an arm and a leg but I did it for three pounds.

The twenty kronor tickets are valid for an hour but unlike the London system they only need to be presented to the system once…on entry...like the Boston MBTA. The out trip was no problem as it only takes ten minutes to get to Fredhemsplan and the Number Four Bendy Bus is waiting at the kerb outside to take you to the Norrtälje Bus waiting on Valhallavägen outside Tekniska Högskolan. But returning is more of a problem because it is touch and go whether you can get back into the subway system within the hour after your 676 bus ride into Stockholm from Norrtälje.

Clive Ogden tells me I have an angle on everything…angle by name angel by nature…so I jumped off the bus at Mörby Centrum…half an hour north of Stockholm on the red line…and entered the Stockholm Tunnelbana system here. I was tempted to jump off at Universitet…on the Mörby-Östermalm line but resisted the urge and changed to the Orient Express at T-Centralen. The thought of losing my ₤3 return fare weighed heavily in the balance.

Nicholas and Andrea reclaim their apartment tomorrow. Neither of them have the disposition to lounge around the place so I will be lucky to exchange a few words in the hallway. As a precaution two months ago I reserved one of our three evenings together for holiday snaps…as in Crocodile Uppsala. Yesterday I used up the final part of my Birthday Present and spent the 100 kronor left on my SF-kort. It was a straight choice between the opening night of Superman or She’s the Man. Superman lost.

I enjoy American High School movies and find superheroes boring. This one had a reverse Princess Ida twist with some Gender-Bending to go with the Bend It Like Beckham theme…and viewed as anthropology explaining Americans I could hardly have chosen better. The audience loved it.

Either side of the film I worked on the Conference Website…a 13-hour working day from 0600 to 1500 and again from 1900 to 2300. At 2200 a Progress Report careened off into cyberspace as evidence that the webmaster was alive and kicking. Work on the website has been going on sporadically in Stockholm ever since my arrival. My e-memo offered colleagues their first glimpse of the web-bits that are in the public domain…but screened from view. It was recommended that they log onto the cesc homepage to view new web-pages like Village Democracy, Leopold Kohr Downloads, radcon III Who's Who and Conference Bookshop…just one-click away from the cesc homepage.

Posterity can take a look too…hello posterity. But webmasters move files around so links that were fit and well on Sunday 30th July 2006 may have lost their position and angular momentum by the summer of 2206 making everything very uncertain. My e-memo encouraged colleagues to follow the action by logging in from time to time.

The e-memo included a Proclamation of Intent to post the homepage within 7-10 days. The web-domain structure is in place…conference, people, books, manuscripts and notices…and there is a sketch in my journal of what is intended. The Real Nations and Real Communities Forums are each to get their own blogs for instance in which each forum paper will be treated as a new posting…to permit comments like on the Magna Carta II blog.

At present the Radcon Bookweb has sixteen entries from eight authors…John Seymour (4), John Papworth (3), Kirkpatrick Sale (2), Chris Wright (2) and one each for Leopold Kohr, Edward Goldsmith, Tom Greco, Aidan Rankin and William Shepherd. Cesc publications have also got in on the act with four e-books…William Shepherd’s Politics of the English Pound and England’s Landed Property, Common Sense from radcon I and Anton Pinschof’s French translation of Thomas H. Greco book on New Money for Healthy Communities…Monnaies Locales. The basic building blocks of the cesc bookweb will be Wordsmiths and Imagicians rather than publishers or booksellers. This is the way to go when niche marketing on the internet but also put the Men & Women of Letters back on centre stage.