My inbox overfloweth

June 29, 2005

I've been predominantly offline for the last week and a half and my inbox now has a mammoth number of unread, and unreplied-to emails. I am currently sitting in a wifi cafe with no damn wifi (although, of course, when I post this I will obviously have relocated), which very effectively slows down the replying […]

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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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Quit message

June 25, 2005

Dan's unintentionally funny IRC quit message today (or was it yesterday?).

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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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Survived

June 21, 2005

Session went ok, I think. Hard to tell from my vantage point, but it seemed ok. Too tired to blog now. Need sleep.

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Speaks for itself

June 21, 2005
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Worse than having to pack

June 19, 2005

Is having to unpack, because somewhere are the earphones to your iPod. Somewhere, probably at the bottom of your very neat, very tidy and soon to be not very immaculately packed suitcase. Today I move house again, to the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, ready for the Supernova conference. I will hereby admit that […]

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The Devil looking down over San Francisco

June 19, 2005

The story goes, and I think it was Jonas who told me this, that the guy who built the Sutro Tower made it look the way it looks because he liked the idea of the Devil looking down on San Francisco. Get it from the right angle, and you can certainly see Satan. Anyway, more […]

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Still here!

June 18, 2005

Well, Friday night, and just got back from seeing Batman Begins and whooeee, it's great! Christian Bale is surprisingly good as Bruce Wayne, and Michael Caine does a good turn as butler Alfred. It's got the darker edge that Batman really needs to succeed these days, and manages to avoid being camp. And a nice […]

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Tsunami? Oh, wait…

June 15, 2005

Geeks + Beer + Tags = Technorati Tag Tuesday Fairly simple concept – get a bunch of people interested in tags in a bar with beer and let them mingle. Kevin Marks and Stewart Butterfield of Flickr were both gonna give a informal talks just to get people thinking. The original venue was way too […]

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OK, now this is California

June 15, 2005

Written last night: Just sitting on the train back up to San Francisco from Palo Alto. The difference in climate between the two was, well, wow. San Francisco has been like London in disguise since I got here, if slightly foggier. A cross, perhaps, between London and Cornwall. Palo Alto is like what you think […]

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Gorgeous!

June 15, 2005

I'm always wary of waxing too lyrical about the cool stuff my friends do, primarily because it always seems a bit trite and annoying, but I have to point you at Kate's final project. Kate's only just starting out on a career in artistic glass, and but she's already making things I love. I wish […]

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I just typo'd my name again

June 13, 2005

OK, so most of you know that my weird spelling started off as a typo, about 10 years ago. I just typo'd it again, ending up with Duw. Which means 'God' in Welsh. What can I say? Be careful what you do, I'm one letter away from omniscience.

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Hummingbirds have attitude!

June 12, 2005

I always thought hummingbirds were like kingfishers – all you'd ever see is a streak of blue where the kingfisher once was. I never expected that interrupting a feeding hummingbird would result in said hummingbird hovering in the air, merely three feet away, looking me right in the eye and swearing at me. At length. […]

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