This months Shropgeek was awesome as always, but due to a beer festival we were all out in the cold instead of our usual quiet back room!

Being outdoors was good for us all though. We found out the lights outside the Admiral Benbow aren't operated by clapper (hehe) or sensor, there's simply a button to push on the wall. Of course, I still acted like I was using a clapper, when actually I just clapped when someone was going to push the button. The effect worked rather well, even if I did look like an idiot!

Topics of discussion this month was very different to any other meetup I've been to.

• Digital Economy Bill: this months shropgeek featured a short discussion on the #debill – mostly on why it's a load of old todge, why we were unhappy about it; and @jamiebiddle brought in a letter from his MP regarding #debill, it turned out to be exactly the same as the letter @zbeauvais had from his MP, it's not even the same MP, they live in different constituencies!
• iPad: With the iPad being released in the US, we had to talk about it, we are geeks after all! Same conversation as usual, are you buying one? is it any good? I think it looks awesome, etc.
• iPhone OS 4: I had been trying to get my hands on OS 4 all day ready for shropgeek and, well I failed. I didn't get my iPhone Developer Program activation email until Saturday morning. So we had to simply talk about it, rather than play with it on my phone. Although now that I have it we'll be able to play with it on my phone next month!
• Top 10 Pubs in Shropshire: Two of the guys who come to shropgeek, @martinchilds and @cpritch, run a local website shropshirelive.com. They ran a competition to find the top 10 pubs in shropshire, I tried to find out the winner before hand as my friend runs one of the pubs on the list but they simply wouldn't tell me!
• Radio traffic reporting: For some reason I decided to ask if anybody remember the Street Hawk, a guy who went round Shrewsbury on a motorbike reporting weather for a local radio station. A few did remember; it was my Dad! I also told them he wouldn't go out in the mornings as traffic was always the same, turns out @cpritch did the same when he reported the traffic too! It's surprising how much you don't know about what goes on behind the scenes.

It was almost a week ago now so I don't remember every tiny detail of what happened so I'll wrap it up here! Shropgeek was awesome as always and I can't wait for May's Shropgeek!