I showed him the delights of London from the top of the big bicycle wheel, and we chatted about all things such as:

• Atlassian's funky new project, which I'm looking forward to trying...
• Dave's Quick Search Deskbar - which really is damn useful, with super-quick lookups on JDK api, ant tasks. It's like the google bar, only better. Just hit 'WindowsKey - S' and your there.
• runtime AOP: adding behaviour on the fly sounds fun, but I'm trying to think of an useful application of it (beyond extending debuggers)
• StatCvs - has already glammed up my cvs repositories at work, great way to see how your project has progressed, with nice charts from the ever useful JFreeChart
• Jelly - been meaning to try this for a few months now, again need a useful reason to use it. I think it might be useful for draining data from one DB to another, I know the next release of Jira will have Jelly integrated as a form of Macro language for Jira,cool.
• We even checked out javablogs from the top of the wheel, on my bottom of the range nokia mobile. Try it for yourself in this funky emulation of javablogs on a mobile phone