Posts from September 2008

The Long Cocktail (September 30th, 2008)

I have a meeting in town later, after which I think I’m going to mosey over to an event  called ‘Geektails‘. Yes, Geektails. It’s described by the organisers as…
“After-work drinks in central London each month, for those who love Internet Start-ups to meet and share ideas socially. Open to internet entrepreneurs, CEOs, developers, VCs, angel investors… [...]



Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a rum and Coke (September 29th, 2008)

The last time I went to a GP was in 1999. I was at university and I’d been troubled by a series of irritating heart palpitations which I put down to – well – I couldn’t give a fuck what they were down to, to be quite honest. I was 19 so they were hardly [...]



Thatcher 2.0 (September 29th, 2008)

This depresses me.

So much to do, so little time.



Does anyone want to… (September 29th, 2008)

…go halves with me on Bradford & Bingley? I call dibbs on Bingley.
Seriously, though, I vist the US for less than a month and their entire financial system collapses. Then, no sooner do I get back to the UK than… well. I swear I didn’t touch anything. 
It’s times like this that I wish I were [...]



Back. (September 26th, 2008)

“So, are you ever going to blog again?”
“I know, I know. I’ve just been fucking manically doing things for the last couple of weeks, you know? Two weeks, three states, and about four hundred blog posts worth of bizarre adventures. I mean, that twat in the hat would make five on his own.”
“The twat?”
“In the [...]



Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China… (September 17th, 2008)

I’ve been up to so much for the past week or so that if I tried to cram it into a single post, it would read like an extra verse of We Didn’t Start The Fire.
I’m back from the US next week and I’ll tell you all about it then. I promise. Meantime, fortunately other [...]



I’m just saying… (September 11th, 2008)
Also…. (September 11th, 2008)

…why is Joss Whedon here? And why is he hanging out with Jackie?

And… wait…

Ashton Kutcher?
Star fucker.



Oops (September 11th, 2008)

“Tc50. – note: gazaro kicked out of demo pit contention for unethical chip manipulation. Please be good everyone. No gaming” – Jason Calacanis on Twitter
Yeah – so Gazaro got kicked out of the Techcrunch 50 Demo Pit for bribing people to give them voting chips. I worry that Rob and I may have [...]



Right to reply (September 10th, 2008)

Greetings from San Francisco – and apologies for lax blogging (SFO blogging?). I’ve been busy, you see – attending conferences, upstaging Symantec parties with Eris, emptying minibars, causing trouble – that kind of thing.
Will blog about it all as soon as a) I get five minutes and b) the wireless at TC50 becomes anything less [...]



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