Triplesourced

I am writing this from a cybercafe in a very wet town called Nakuru on the way to the Rift Valley. We have been in country for three days now and its been a lot harder of a challenge than we expected. Today was a mostly easy day though - just 60kms - mostly downhill as we head down into the Rift Valley. Yesterday - the first proper day of cycling was much, much harder - 105kms through very mountainous country which few of us had experienced during our training - outside of the hard setting on the gym bike machines! It's raining today but yesterday was seriously hot - so a lot of people are sporting some lovely sunburn - mostly the backs of their calves. The whole adventure has been made much harder by the bikes we have been given - nothing like the 21 speed, new models we were expecting but locally sourced junkers most of which were barely working on the first morning so we were delayed by hours as the Kenyan mechanics tried to get the 10 year old machines into some kind of order. On new bikes this would have been hard - on the ones we have it's going to be hard to say if all of us will finish - some people are already riding in the vans. Right - better go as van full of people waiting for me for a three hour transfer - we can't cycle the whole way to Lake Victoria - in the time we have allotted so a transfer was always part of the plan.

As well as the usual scribbling diligently onto a trusty reporter's notebook, ZDNet UK also took along a hand-held camera to record some of the highlights of the Vista launch event in London's British Library. Being shot on hand-held, this video isn't as polished as our normal output – hence video blogging – but we think its worth putting out there.

It's interesting to see the normally no-nonsense Doug Richard being fairly kind and fluffy to a bunch of small businessmen. UK readers will know Doug from the popular BBC series Dragon's Den where he and a panel of fellow entrepreneurs gave start-ups a grilling over their business plans. Obviously, Richard and the small businesses have all been compensated by Microsoft in some shape or form but there is some interesting reaction to open source alternatives – especially from Richard.