There is something quite strange and morbid about watching all this footage coming out of georgia & south osettia, a town i knew, a people i had the honour of meeting ever so breifly last time round.

my heart goes out to you as you prepare for a war you can not win,

there is something deeply bizarre looking at the quad split of the feeds and seeing beijing and olympics footage above watching russian and georgian troops, receiving breaking news wires about olympic golds, next to talk of humanitarian corridors.