2002-06-26
YAPC::NA, baby!
Oh dear, I really am turning into Leon.
I was thinking of doing entries about the conference both here and on use.perl but I think I've decided that I'll only post things there. So far I've managed one entry but I'm sure there'll be more later.
In it I touch on the problems I had finding a heart to St Louis. It seems Simon Cozens had similar problems on Sunday.
2002-06-19
Random item, seven
Sitting in the park talking to a friend watching the reflected sun shining through the trees while flocks of pigeons swarm past.
2002-06-18
Random items, four and five
Seeing the sudden flare of a match shining back, a red-orange glow, from the face of the woman/girl under the tree a metre or two in front of me as I walk down the quiet road towards the city centre, as her boyfriend talks to her.
Gazing down listlessly on a large, dark puddle, reflecting both the leaves and canopy of the trees ahead of me in the park, and suddenly noticing the movement of the birds above mirrored beside my feet as we carry on in the same direction.
2002-06-17
Doc Searls visits London
Well, Doc Searls appears to be in London and Ben Hammersley invited ukbloggers along. I made sure Matt Webb would be there and with help from a remote Google source (thanks Simon) I made it to the pub.
It was a little odd for me being there, since I hardly knew anyone there. On the other hand, people there were friendly enough, and I got to eat lots of really garlic-y garlic bread, drink strange little shots and bottles of lager, and we talked about all sorts of things, like whether Apple were doing enough with OS X (and Jaguar) and how fragile their position was, bridging MOOs and IRC (with bots, naturally), Shazam! and other uses for phoning services up for information (like, um, lie detectors), the sociability of British geeks compared with American ones, and my utter inability to take photos without it going all wobbly somewhere (plus a bit of lust for Doc's nice video camera).
Anyway, it was a nice evening, even if it did make me feel curiously like I was under some sort of obligation to make a blog post...