One Man's Notes

The Business Development Christmas Lunch

Clink on the ones below to see three secret santa gifts being opened:

I seem to be surrounded by sleepy French women on today's journey.

On the Eurostar

The conference is done. I'm pretty much done. Just staggered up from the bar , where I was drinking with Ross Mayfield of SocialText, Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void and Tom Morris, as well as various folks from Six Apart.

It's the first time in years I've been to a conference where I was actually participating in the activities under discussion, not just reporting on them, and I loved it. I've made some great contacts, learnt some interesting things and my blog traffic has gone through the roof.

And I'm pissed.

Until tomorrow…

Show us something seasonal.

The Festive Queue

Nothing says the Christmas season like massive queues at the Post Office.

Behold! The spider hand!

Testing video uploads

I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a handy-dandy Vox posting client for your mobile phone called, wait for it, Vox Mobile.

And I'm playing around with it and its capabilities.

Test post

Such fun!

Another image from my sloooow journey yesterday.

07/12/06

I'm wondering if the bridge is shut because of the high winds...

This is taking too long.

Stuck on the M25

Oooh. New look Vox...

Some nice new features, including the ability to import posts from other systems and media from its existing url. That should be handy.

In other news, I'm back in Suffolk for the day, taking Mum for her latest dose of chemotherapy.

I'm really, really looking forward to having a complete week in the office next week.

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap

What song gives you the most holiday cheer?
Submitted by Roxy.

When do you start your holiday shopping?
Submitted by Murphy.

As late as humanly possible. I'm a bit rubbish at this sort of thing, and tend to everything in one afternoon's retail binge.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
Submitted by Brennan.

Thanksgiving?

Bloody Americans.

Grabbed on my phone.

Open mouse

What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.

Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

There was a single scene in Tron that terrified me as a 10 year old when I first saw it. The hero of the movie is "shot" with a laser and digitised into the computer. I've no idea why it scared me so much, but I refused to have a computer in my bedroom, until getting my first Mac at university left me no choice.

While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.