I feel so out of the loop!

If I'd had broadband yesterday, I would have visited every site attached to live8 and Make Poverty History, watched all of the 10 gigs on AOL's livecasts, tracked down blogs and reports and activists sites and sat and watched it all happen.

When the G8 occurs on Wednesday, I'll still be limited to dialup, which means I don't have the time to go to all the places I want to, or comprehensively query google for links, or successfully follow webcam links, or anything like that.

I was watching a report on News24 this morning from a 12 year old girl who marched around Edinburgh yesterday. It looked like a great day, and she found a fair few people to interview, including Pete Postlethwaite. A good report altogether.

But it brought a sense of shame to me. I want to be involved. I've cared about it for so long - since at least the age of fourteen - and to see everything kicking off now, and to have the G8 happening so soon and to be able to do nothing but watch is so limiting.

But as was said yesterday quite regularly by the commentators, this is just a starting point. Watching the political and business news, reading behind the vitriol on indymedia, keeping my ear to the ground about small changes and political initiatives is what to do now. It's all I can do for now.

Hopefully, once my IT Consultancy business gets off the ground and I've learned to drive, I'll have more time, money and opportunity to get to places where things are going on, I can get to see some of these things firsthand.

I've invested such a lot of soul into my beliefs about what needs to be happening in the world, I need to see some of this for myself, I need to DO something, BE somewhere. I'm there in spirit and as soon as I can, I'll be there in the flesh.

Here's a couple of quotes from Radio 2's Live8 commentary:

Jimmy Carr: "I think we really need to stop selling them guns, too"
Slash: "Flew in at 7am, had a nap, woke up and had a beer"