How to look like a twit ...

I'm in Galway today at a conference on the relationship between the public policy and the social sciences. I turned up to find I was meant to be giving the 15 minute introductory speech. Sometimes it pays to actually read the programme and the advance material that conference organisers send through! What they got was a hastily constructed, half-baked, back of an envelope address. What I got was a new manifestation of the crisis management lifestyle that I seem to be leading these days. Not a great way to stumble through life, but there we go; sometimes it's probably not a bad thing to look like a twit ...