life

A funny thing happened on the way to the boarding gate

July 20, 2005

Strange things happen in airports. I'm sitting at Gate 100 at San Francisco International Airport (aka SFOhdear), watching the fog roll in. I haven't properly blogged about the fog yet. Fog here is not like fog elsewhere. It has character. Purpose. Speed. Above all, the fog here is fast. But that's not what this post […]

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Sleep deprivation as preparation for changing time zones

July 19, 2005

Why is it that on a day when I have to get up early for a meeting, and then have to fly back to the UK, that I find myself not going to bed til 2am, and then waking up at 5am and being entirely unable to get back to sleep again? Sod's law? Dawn […]

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A plan! A plan! My kingdom for a plan!

July 17, 2005

I've just spent three hours mapping out my alleged career and thinking about what I want to do with my life. I think I've actually been fairly clear on that last point for a while, but putting it all down on paper (or rather, in pixels) just helps me to clarify that what I think […]

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The complexities of the evil that is Coke (and I don't mean the snorty type)

July 16, 2005

You would, upon first glance, imagine that soft drinks are simple. You make them, bottle them sell them and hopeful at some point someone drinks them. Not so. I'm no Coca-Cola aficionado, but I do know that Coke comes in many grades. In the UK, as I understand it, there are three: syrup that's mixed […]

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Moving on

July 15, 2005

Almost every American I have met since last Thursday has asked me about the London bombings, or drawn parallels between 7/7 and 9/11 (they never care that we think of dates as 7 July and 11 September, they just assume that we do it the way they do it). I've kept in touch with the […]

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Missing England

July 14, 2005

I've never really been one for homesickness – I live too much in the moment for that. Usually when I bugger off to foreign climes, I barely give 'home' a second thought, because I have my home with me, on my laptop. But right now, I really miss England. London. I missed the two minute […]

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Ouch^2

July 12, 2005

Today I drew two erroneous conclusions: 1. That my heels were sporting thick enough calluses that a half-hour walk in my new-ish sandals wouldn't cause pain and blood loss. 2. That because the sun here in SF had caused me no problems thus far, it wouldn't burn me this afternoon. Sadly, I have both bleeding […]

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I'm here!

July 7, 2005

Long journey, but as pleasant as these things can be. Sat next to a lovely woman called Lisa on the plane, and we watched Shaun of the Dead on my laptop. I love showing that film to people who haven't seen it yet, and that's so much more fun at 40,000 ft. Have now been […]

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Someone give me Alka Seltzer

July 6, 2005

free booze + less than 4 hours sleep + long flight = bad idea Whatever possessed me to drink so much of that free wine last night? I think this is some sort of karmic payback because I kept smugly telling people I was going to SF last night. Ick.

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Ok, I'm off again

July 5, 2005

London today for the New Statesman New Media Awards (don't get excited, I'm just ligging), then on to San Francisco again tomorrow. When I get back I'll be loitering in the London/Arundel vicinity, before popping over to Paris. Possibly permanently. Life is like London Transport – you never know where you are going to end […]

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New itinerary

July 2, 2005

Goes something like London – San Francisco – Arundel – London – Arundel – London – whoknowswhere. Life is fun!

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More new luggage

July 2, 2005

I now have a new suitcase. It just about copes with having my hand luggage strapped to the top of it. It has wheels. And is blue. Yay! If you're thinking 'But surely, the intelligent time to be buying new luggage is before you go away, not after you come back?', then just follow that […]

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No rest for the wicked

June 27, 2005

Off again now, up to London in preparation for the New Media Knowledge seminar, Blogging: A Real Conversation. Starts at 2pm tomorrow, at 01zero-one, Peter Street, Soho, London W1F 0HS. I'll be giving a deeply subjective view of objectivity. Be there, or miss the chance to heckle me something awful. I will likely be incommunicado […]

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Whoops. Jetlagarama

June 25, 2005

Nearly fell asleep in the bath earlier, so ended up taking the nap I really didn't want to take. Now it feels like mid-afternoon when it is in fact mid-evening, and I'm guessing that the can of Coke I just drank won't help. Jetlag wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that […]

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JFK

June 25, 2005

Sitting here in departures in JFK, after a ludicrously early start and a flight over from San Francisco, during which I watched Henman fuck up Wimbledon for another year. Can't believe I've missed the first week of tennis – what poor timing. Not much battery left on the laptop, so figure I had better use […]

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