London bombings

While it comes as no surprise that London has been targetted by terrorists, I'm still apalled at the way some people have such a disregard of human life just for their political ends.

Working in the games industry means that I have lots of contacts who live and/or work in the London area and I hope that their lives have not been badly traumatised by the awful events.

Worse still is the fact that my partner, June, has a daughter who's been working in London, so she was (and still is) very upset that her life was threatened in this way. Thankfully she's not been directly affected by the bombings, but is still very shook up by it all.

Something that strikes me as particularly bad is that London has just been successful in securing the Olympics for the year 2012, an occasion that we all see as bringing together a wide variety of nations in a huge global event. I can't help but feel that it's no coincidence that today's tragedy followed directly on from this positive news.