“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
It’s that time again – time to pack up the red suitcase and move on to somewhere new. Six and a bit weeks – 48 days to be exact – have [...]

On pain of death at the hands of RFW&N, my time in the Valle has been dominated by hard work and early nights.  And yet, somehow, amongst all the toil, we’ve still found time to have the occasional very small – and tightly regulated – bit of fun.
Take, for example, the games.
I’ve invented some brilliant [...]

“People who work in publishing today are by a huge majority young, female graduates from good universities who have an absolute laser-like focus on advancing their career. They are very dedicated, very smart and absolutely fucking terrifying. These people think nothing of arranging a meeting at 9.00 a.m. 9.00 a.m.! To me that’s not a [...]

“Arriving late, I’d just missed Angus Bankes’s presentation but made it just in time to see Michael Smith take the platform. In his opinion, The Next Big Thing would be companies that kept things simple rather than building complicated web services which most people couldn’t understand and wouldn’t use. An interesting view from a man [...]

Yahoo’s Yang! is back
Got fed up with the haterz
Fucked off to the zoo
It’s a beautiful day in the Valle, and I’m making the most of it.
I’ve written today’s Haiku, sorted my accommodation for next week in London and ordered some of the recording equipment I need for the video interviews. But now I’m off to [...]

“‘Double Scaatches for everyone,’ he shouted, to no one on particular. ‘Hey, Paul, you don’t mind getting them in do you?’ He threw his Amex card across the table at me; it landed on my lap.”

A busy day today, all told. Michelle Act(i)on-Bond and Anna Melville-James have come to visit us in the Valle for [...]

“I’m hiding at the back of the room getting slowly drunk with the event’s organiser, an entrepreneur who helped raise a ridiculous sum of money for a business networking site that had projected revenues of precisely zero. His mantra, he tells me, is ‘revenue is the enemy’. It’s not clear what that means, but I [...]

‘Why would you tell me anything? It’s not like I’ve come all the way across London and paid eight fucking pounds for a rum and coke just to hear about your idea. You just keep it to yourself and enjoy your orange juice. Cunt.‘

So, Eris left the Valle on Thursday, heading for New York and [...]

Houseguest Eris writes…
At first, I thought it was going to be a bad use of my week in Spain to spend my afternoons writing about being in Spain. We are nothing if not meta. It has amused me, truly, to be this far from home and still so highly connected. Actually, it [...]

Ok, I’m back in the room1, and from hereonout things start to get really interesting.
The proofs have been read and re-read, checked for any last typos and factual errors – including double-sourcing the trickiest stuff with help my crack team of soi disant experts (/witnesses) where necessary – and as near to a final version [...]