Archive for October, 2007

04 Oct 2007

Diggnation in London, Cont’d

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Diggers!Last night at the Diggnation taping, someone asked if they could take my picture (well, a lot of people’s pictures) because I was wearing a Digg shirt. Someone posted my picture Flickr. Here was me sitting in the audience of 1,000 people.

Unlike the picture on the left-hand side of this site, you can see I started growing my hair longer and sporting a beard.

I’m still excited about the great event last night and am really glad I attended.

You can see the rest of the photos on the Flickr site here.

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04 Oct 2007

Scott Adams Being Had

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I read a blog post by Scott Adams on the Dilbert Blog last week which really made me laugh and think. I have nothing to say, really, but hope to direct you to this post if you haven’t seen it:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/a-feeling-im-be.html

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03 Oct 2007

Back from Diggnation

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Last night at the Diggnation taping, someone asked if they could take my picture (well, a lot of people’s pictures) because I was wearing a Digg shirt. Someone posted my picture Flickr. Here was me sitting in the audience of 1,000 people.

Unlike the picture on the left-hand side of this site, you can see I started growing my hair longer and sporting a beard.

I’m still excited about the great event last night and am really glad I attended.

You can see the rest of the photos on the Flickr site here.

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02 Oct 2007

Miracle Transportation Down

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Right now I am standing at a lay-by waiting for AA to show up. I have a puncture in my motorcycle rear tire. It was flat when I got to the station tonight but I rode on it to the nearby petrol station an filled it up. I can see the hole and hear th hissing. I thought I could make it home on that refill, but thought better of it on the road. I don’t want to have a full blow out and lose control of the bike. It’s dark and drizzly and ther is nothing to do while I wait-except this.

The cars are speeding by every few minutes. I can’t help but think about how I race past them every night.

I hope the AA man can fix this. He should be here soon. In the meantime, I’m listening to Prince’s Planet Earth album on my phone. I would take a leak in the bushes if it weren’t for the constant headlights coming around the corner.

I’ll let you know how well the AA man does.

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02 Oct 2007

Blogging from my phone

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I’m trying to use a Pocket PC blog writer app this morning. I have a QTek 9100 phone with a slide-out keyboard, so I thought I could make use of train time by writing blog posts.

The application I’m using is a free one called Diarist2 developed by Kevin Daly in New Zealand. I’ve had a few problems with it so far. Mainly, I lost a post because I had written it before I had my blog settings set up. After entering the settings, my post was gone. Now I’e writing in OneNote Mobile ond copying into Diarist2. It’s actually working very well now. Diarist2 supports images, but I think I need to upgrade my Dasblog engine first.

Diarist2 is a decent tool. Thanks Kevin. His website is http://www.kevdaly.co.nz/

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02 Oct 2007

Diggnation in London tomorrow

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Tomorrow night, the guys from Diggnation will be filming their weekly podcast at the Excel Convention Centre. I started watching the Diggnation podcast about a year ago and it my favourite podcast by far.

If you haven’t seen Diggnation, you should check it out. It is basically two guys drinking beer and discussing the top stories on the Digg.com website. One of the guys is the Digg founder, Kevin Rose. It makes me laugh so much that I can’t watch it on the train for fear of embarassing myself.

The podcast is probably more popular in the States. No one I know here seems to watch it. Maybe I enjoy it so much because of the laid back California jeuvenile humor I remember.

You can find Diggnation at the Revision3 website or in iTunes. I plan on being there to see it tomorrow and am pretty excited.

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