Up the old Sea Dog One of the great thing about working for a company that is dependant on Business Partners is that there are regular ‘event’ to socialise and network with them. One such ‘event’ is the annual Silicon Cup at Cowes where a bunch of BPs and MS types get together and race around in yachts and general swap tales of jibs, sheets and tillers. It's also worth mentioning that it also raises a lot of money for charity. I was invited along by the top chaps at Trinity Expert Systems who I work with a lot and we all had a great time. They put us up at the Royal Corinthian Yacht club so we didn’t have to sleep on the boat, which was rather handy after all the eating and drinking. Er...hum, business meetings that went on. One of the chaps from Trinity came over in his own 6.3m ‘Rib’ which sported a rather tasty 150 Yamaha outboard motor, so on the Tuesday evening we were sat in the middle of the Solent watching the fireworks celebrating Trafalgar 200. All in all a fun few days.