On a sweltering Circle Line journey home, devoid of oxygen and desperate for non-condensing moisture, I find the time to reflect on the 2nd Cloud Circle Forum, 2010. The phrases ‘utility computing’, ‘paradigm shift’ and an ‘infinite number of monkeys-aaS’ play feverishly on my mind, psychotropically altered by the 36 degree heat and near suffocation. Yet thinking beyond my current Dantesque predicament, the day’s events were an altogether cooler and more inspiring affair.