Perhaps the UK - or the media - is just too realistic?

One of the problems of reporting from an event such as this is that I am waking up and you ending the working day - almost.

First impression from talking to a few people last night is that the UK is suffering from the economic malaise - at least in terms of how the media are reporting it - far worse than other countries.

The US is still in the throes of Obamamania in many respects. The French economy is "in pretty good shape"; Australia often does it's own thing; Canada follows the fortunes of its southern neighbour in many respects; and Italy had economic problems of its own before the Credit Crunch!

Today's activities centre mainly on the Innovation Summit - a place for 32 difference companies to showcase a new product and the audience selects a group of winners to present to the full conference on Wednesday and Thursday.

Meanwhile, in other news:

The wildfires that surrounded the much of the outskirts of the city of Los Angeles are still "100% not contained" [fantastic use of English], according to one of the many local cable channels this morning.

Made for a quite a dramatic view as the aircraft landed at LAX yesterday.