Category: life

I’ve read Tim O’Reilly’s Blogger Code of Conduct and agree with a fair few other folk that it is not for me, although it may be perfectly useful for Tim’s sites. I assume these are group written sites, otherwise the use of the Royal ‘we’ is amusing. However Kathy Sierra rightly adds to the comments […]

This is weird as it is the first Good Friday I’ve worked for years, there’s no 4 day weekends here for religious holidays, just the secular ones to go shopping. I’m going to point you over to Rachel North for a wonderful recollection of days gone by. No memories like that for me, just a […]

Serenity has topped a poll from SFX magazine of the best sci-fi films. Given the strong and extremely well organised fan-base, I wonder how many votes they managed to encourage?

Last week there were a lot of words written about the threats made to Kathy Sierra and her reaction to them. Unfortunately many of the word accused people behind the offending sites before allowing them to put their side of the story and they were subject to some of the same kind of behaviour, the […]

I’ve been following this for the last few hours and just getting angrier and angrier. Kathy Sierra, one of the best, brightest and most compassionate bloggers that I read, has been receiving death threats and just sheer, unadulterated, vicious, abusive behaviour from other people through comments and blog posts. Kathy’s post points at some people […]

Ewan Spence is visiting New York for the next few days, so Eric and I thought we’d see if anyone wants to meet up and grab dinner. Tomorrow evening, Two Boots pizza, Grand Central food court, 7.30pm. We’ll be easy to spot, Ewan’ll have a kilt on!

After 5 days at SXSW, surrounded by a sea of Macs, the Continental lounge at Austin Airport is different beast…full of PCs, primarily IBMs This is obviously a business clientel, not conference goers.

Day 2 of the joy that is SXSW. Being sensible with the parties last night means I feel pretty good this morning, even with the loss of an hour through daylight saving. I learnt yesterday that one should not wear a Google shirt – I kept being asked if I worked in the new building, […]

instead of going to sessions this afternoon I’m hanging out at barcamp, listening to some great talks (even over the talking) and sipping iced drinks in the sun. lovely.

Finally arrived in Austin after a slightly delayed flight but nothing too bad. it’s lovely and warm here, the sun is out, a far different climate after cold New York. Checked in, got my badge and met up with Ewan in the line 🙂 One nice meal later, and the odd marguerita, decided to catch […]

I’ve got the last NextNY session to write up, everything from the PSFK conference on Tuesday and off to SXSW tomorrow. I feel like I’m not going to catch up. Expect variable blogging over the next week.

Just went and got my hair cut and the young lady who washed my hair congratulated on my lack of grey hairs. I’m pretty sure she meant it as a compliment.

I’ve been reading Jason Calacanis’s fatblogging drive and thought about it but it was not quite enough. Then I read Jeremy’s post on the subject and the topic on the B5Media message board which led me to traineo; looking at that app, witht he support and community aspects was enough to tip me over the […]

We, (Eric and I) are trying to find a venue in New York to run some geek dinners…at least one of which will feature Ian Forrester and we’ve got some interesting people lined up for others. Looking for somewhere which has a private room (up to about 50 to start with we think), serves alcohol, […]

I’ve finally gone and bought a Macbook. Not yet got it up and running (won’t connect to the web) but I’ll have more time to sort this out this week.