Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
Here's a quick guide of some of the things I'm doing this month in London. Hope to see you at one or more of them. Geekdinner with Brady Forrest at Ye Olde Cock Tavern This is going to be a great geekdinner, Brady is a big figure at all O'reilly conferences. He's usually the one asking…
I've been avoiding Pownce since hearing about it on Diggnation a while back. A whole heap of invites have been sent to me but I've resisted till I got one from Sheila. I started writing reasons why not to use Pownce but then changed my mind about writing a rant back and decided to actually…
Quick reminder for everyone, its going to be a busy week. Monday night is Werewolf night at the Ye Cock Taven on Fleet Street. As Tom says, we all know who the werewolf is. Tuesday night is a geekdinner with Julie Howell also at the Ye Cock Taven. Wednesday night there is a after party…
Sarahs published some guidelines for event etiquette. I have to say I quite like these guidelines and will be publishing them to the geekdinner website in the near future too. Event Etiquette for Attendees When attendees sign up, put the details for the event in your diaries and ensure that the date & time is…
Apple heads! give me a break… Since Apple and Cingular announced the date of the apple iphone (29th June) and the rumour there will only be 4 million made this year. All I hear about now is the iphone. At the girl geekdinner the women from google who presented made a joke about the iphone…
I decided to split up my posts about the girl geekdinner because something happened later when we got to the pub in Victoria afterwards. Walid from Trustedplaces.com was showing me some of the new features there planning. Obviously these are not to be repeated so I won't. But we got talking about the Trusted places…
So first up I'm not that impressed with being invited to an event, turning up and not finding my name on the list. Then a slap in the face when I get hit with a bill for 35 pounds. Having no cash, means I'm forced to hand over my business card so they can invoice…
So if you've not noticed already, cubicgarden.com has been up and down like a yoyo on a broken string. This was not the fault of Hub.org, actually Apache 2.x has been running flawlessly through-out the troubles. Thats why you could see the 503 error and not a 404. Without boring everyone to death, I'm running…
I was reading the London Girl GeekDinner 10 roundup by Sarah Blow and thought how simlar our nights sounded. Wednesday night was a mad night. I was late again, because I had to scoot from Kensington to Clerkenwell in rush hour traffic. I forgot my camera batteries and charger, so had to scoot back from…
During the Future of Webapps, quite a few people said to me how weird it was being at a conference where you had to sit and listen. They prefered the idea of BarCamp, where you could move around and directly effect a presentation with a question or idea. So in short they were comparing conferences…
Yes I've seen it too. London Wiki Wednesday London Girl Geek Dinner 10 Sponsored by Amazon! Geekdinner with Tara Hunt and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency Contested Territories: Ron Arad, Deyan Sudjic and Tom Dixon: On Design Now I can shout and rave about how crazy it is having 4 london events on the same…
I've been involved in a few podcasts recently. The first one is a round table discussion with Paul Boag, Gary Marshall and Jeremy Keith for the .net magazine podcast. I've not heard this one yet, but I was calling with skype over a wireless network at work, so I cut out a bit.The topics for…
Victor Keegan from the Guardian, pins down a great argument for the TV license rise. Here's some of the best bits. The BBC needs to be cut down to size because it uses the certainty of its licence fee to undermine entrepreneurial initiatives in the private sector. That is the accusation used by many of…
Some of you might notice this is almost a copy of the summary on the backstage blog, but I've added bits which I felt were best left for a personal blog. Thank you to everyone who turned up and made this our most successful event to date. We had started very early on Saturday afternoon…
After hearing Ryan Freitas talk about Twitter among other things, I've been trying out it out. If you don't know what Twitter is, check out Derek Powazek's description.Twitter lets me SMS to a group all at once and creates a handy 'what I'm up to right now' insert for my site. A kind of in-situ,…