Generally it’s better to plan things properly before you get too big, otherwise you’ll find yourself spending a lot of time reworking to cope with new demands. It’s a lesson that we’re still trying to remember and it’s painful when we get things wrong. Like now.

Over the past couple of years we’ve received quite a few inquiries from Europe and Asia. As we already work with festivals overseas, dealing with different currencies and time zones is done and dusted. More and more inquiries come with the request; “but we’ll need it in Norwegian/Japanese/Spanish/insert language here”. Which is, of course, a perfectly reasonable demand. So there’s just the small matter to extract the language from the  200+ separate files that make up the system and then deliver these in a format where we can get them translated.

It’s such an exciting task that I’m searching for other things to do, like writing news articles about the process.

Oh, we’ve finally got broadband running in our new office, only 41 days after putting the order in. Our new phone number is (+44) 0208 144 1110, or you can skype us here (username: midtempo)