June 2008
75 posts
the ice-cream van just stopped *right outside our house*. We have two very excited daughters…
Home made pizza picnic in the garden. Rose seems to love football, which is heartening. I just have to break it to her she’s a Spurs fan…
got my first ever speeding ticket in the post today. Feel like a dirty petrol-head.
Desiring pancakes
rare time playing with kids and a large cardboard box. Its a car! Taking us to Disneyland! Waves at @joroach and @crys
On train to Hove. Fellow passengers are 50% elderly groups heading back after matinees, 30% drunk commuters, 20% yoot just warming up.
at minibar for the last leg of a ridiculously busy fortnight. Fucking knackered.
just arrived at Hide and Speak conference at the RFH
listening to Beta Band EPs, and remembering I downloaded these MP3s from @blackbeltjones to my *watch*, back when USB keys were a novelty.
on train back to Hove after NMA awards and weird day of plotting and strange conferences. Tomorrow promises much of the same…
Attracting pigeons in the park. Shoo pigeons! Shoo!
at the grauniad, waiting for lunching partner
anyone suggest a place to get power an wifi nr oxford circus?
just been kicked out of a conference on digital marketing because people were complaining about the noise of my typing. NNNGGHH!!!
the next speaker, from disney, claims to have been the first person *ever* to have placed an ad on the internet. on a BBS, then, eh? tsch.
listening to CBBC talking about seeding games on Miniclip. interesting…
interesting - CBBC did a deal with Jetix (a direct competitor) to market their relaunch games
also did a CBBC covermount DVD with desktop apps, games etc. (apologies, twitter followers - these are my notes for later…
BBC1 feed of the Euro 2008 down, so their showing the radio commentary on BBC1
man on train has a bag from the 2007 Plagiarism Conference. Bizarre.
Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque →
Umair Haque’s manifesto
blogging again. lets see if i can keep it up this time, rather than just letting tumblr do all the work.
oops. Socialflightsim’s fireworks seem to have set off Ally Pally’s fire system. Let’s hope the sprinklers don’t start again…
watching the hacks at #Mashed. Some very good hacks giving the beeb usable search…
earlier: selling cakes at The Villas market; later: Matt Adam’s 40th; tommorrow: Mashed!
gutted to be missing #interesting and first day if #mashed. Will be at mashed tomorrow for judging
excellent Bill Tidy stand-up at Btween. More cartoon stand-ups at tech conferences please!
now eating The Guardian’s scotch egg. Om nom nom
eating The Guardian’s chips with @aleks and @bobbie at The Urbis. *good* chips.
‘pony’
watching Cory doing his DRM slapdown at Btween. Wind him up, and watch him flow…
very tall man playing very small drum kit
meant to say “off ill”, of course
off I’ll for the first time on over a year. Lots of sleep, as its televisual conference tomorrow, then BTween in Manchester, then Mashed.
father’s day lunch at the regency, Brighton. Packed full of Dads and tired cyclists after the ride from London.
looking at fantastic father’s day paintings from Rose and Olivia. And lots of McSweeneys as presents. FDFTW!!!
cooking chicken with pancetta, leeks, white wine, cream and borlotti beans.
off to get ingredients for baking session with rose and olivia
listening to pitches in Buxted
last day in Buxted. Very impressed by how the TV people have stopped worrying and learnt to love the interweb.
chocolate mousse or sticky toffee pudding? oh gwan then, i’ll have both.
still in buxted, talking shop
Citysense: Let's You Know What Everybody's Doing -... →
mapping activity based on aggregated ab journeys. also with demographic overlays. Interesting approach to data privacy as well
The Spectator →
Interesting Spectator article on Oli Barrett’s WebMission
at Buxted after leisurely drive through the lovely sussex countryside. Waiting for various twitter friends to get here.
in Buxted hatching secret plans to build a giant orbiting moon with a laser weapon embedded in it. or having an awayday. we’ll see…
sunbaked and full of sausage rolls and ice cream. Yet another birthday party…
playing in the sun
