The month of July 2010 saw an 18% increase in online sales with UK shoppers spending £5 billion in one month — the biggest monthly rise for three years.

Paul and I were fortunate enough to be invited (thanks Lucy!) to Google UK (http://www.google.co.uk) a couple of weeks ago to discuss a new concept called Plings (http://www.plings.net).

This project was not done by Brightlemon but Steven at Substance (http://www.substance.coop) has asked me to big this up wearing a Drupal hat - and I'm happy to do that!

Just got back from DrupalCon Paris (http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/) yesterday and whilst it is indeed sad to leave the hallowed halls of the Cité Universitaire and Paris itself, at least now I