Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Twisted

Perhaps we are all twisted but this experiment paints a picture of the Twitter community: http://twistori.com/ 

Some mind boggling stuff in there, I was lucky enough to see;

i feel like a sex offender going braless to drop off my kid at school.

i believe the enemy uav is airborne. pity.

I love sugar coated children. They're delicious. *chomp*

I wish I could tell a certain person how much I miss them.

o, hormones. how
i hate thee.

I think the internet is in a good mood lately. With the usual exceptions.

So a pretty rounded view of the world overall then...

Great stuff

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Ola San francisco

Well we're here. After 11 hours on a United plane with a token for either 'a free alcoholic beverage' or 'a set of earphones' we arrived slightly jaded but intent on seeing Picture 080some more of San Francisco. A jaunt with some of the more charming entrepreneurs around the piers and union square,  punctuated with some chowder in sourdough, meant for a reassuringly touristy start. It was however followed by the techcrunch cocktails which brought us back to the purpose of the visit - to network, network, network! We seem to have successfully irritated the locals already, with some chavvy stranger pointing out that we thought we were cool, but that our jackets were 'contrived' - granted there was a bit of the entrepreneurs uniform Picture 085going on but I guess i am going to have to think less about clothing from this point on!

Lots of familiar and friendly faces, good to see Scott and Rob, and get a little closer to some of the start-up teams I haven't had the chance to meet yet. Last night, a day that had been going on for ages and seemed to be culminating with rather a long time in the bar here at the Clift, rather randomly ended with a chilly trawl across the city to a place called Vessel. A few of the more hardy travellers amongst us made the trek over there and made full use of the DJ's services taking us to a respectable 2am - a decent attempt to avoid any major jetlag issues methinks. That being said I am up and blogging now, so maybe its not quite sorted yet!

Today holds a brunch event with some press and PR folk, and after that I'm planning on meeting my old friend Johnny and going sailing in the bay - which sounds absolutely amazing - or there's a barbeque 'in the valley' if that falls through.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Lazy, lazy, lazy...

IMG00115 Well you have to get out there when there's snow right? Here's our effort!