October 2007
Lewes Bonfire Council - Advice for Potential... →
bobbiejohnson: At this point I must profess some disdain for Halloween; my motivations are purely selfish of course, but still. No point if it’s not scary.
bobbiejohnson: @thayer thanks!
bobbiejohnson: making a mess of reorganising. Gawd, I’m an arse.
bobbiejohnson: Are we watching House of Cards? You might think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
bobbiejohnson: Started out the day quietly - finishing it by polishing off 2,000 words in a couple of hours. No dinner with Yahoo for me.
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$100 laptop hits $200 →
bobbiejohnson: I’m bored of the internets.
There's less to Facebook and other social networks... →
Greenslade: The NUJ and me: a considered response →
Dorkfest: Game hardware hacks →
This Man Wants To Control the Internet. And you... →
bobbiejohnson: Trying to get things moving on a couple of nice stories that I want to cement this week.
NY Times' Open code blog →
bobbiejohnson: Award for worst headline in history goes to Brighton & Hove Leader: “OAP frustrated by parking damaged office staff’s cars”. Oh yes.
bobbiejohnson: Watching Britz, eating sweets.
bobbiejohnson: doing a bit of work.
links for 2007-10-28 →
bobbiejohnson: We are debating where the border between Brighton and Hove is. In French accents. While eating Reese’s peanut butter cups.
oink.cd - 'the number 1 site in the world for... →
bobbiejohnson: just woke up. Cripes!
bobbiejohnson: On the train back to Brighton, waylaid by fire alarms, ecological disaster and landing on the moon.
bobbiejohnson: I am the virtuous.
bobbiejohnson: writing about internet libel, Will Wright, virtual worlds and radio. Not all in the same article, thank goodness.
bobbiejohnson: stuck at home, writing furiously.
bobbiejohnson: Getting stupidly annoyed by a very rude reader who has no sense of proportion. Emailed terse response back to them; now relax.
bobbiejohnson: Fell asleep on the train, and woke myself up by snoring. Whoops.
bobbiejohnson: Skipping sxswi and women in games drinks. Sorry people, but i’m barely conscious.
bobbiejohnson: The possibility of getting home early and flaking out from jet lag is disappearing fast. Fortunately lag not *too* bad.
bobbiejohnson: feeling the burn.
bobbiejohnson: Latest celebrity airport spot: Yvette Fielding. Methinks this isn’t worth many points, though.
bobbiejohnson: Wondering if there is a modern druid sartorial protocol.
bobbiejohnson: Final morning in SF; heading home this afternoon. Maybe I’ll go sit on the beach - watching Michael Clayton has put me in a reflective mood.
bobbiejohnson: Lost some hours last night in a punky dive bar in the Haight. Re-reading my Twitters, things are starting to come back to me…
bobbiejohnson: @sparklethesky - meaning it was clearly done by the third day.
bobbiejohnson: I *think* every English or South African person in California is in this pub.
bobbiejohnson: Dumbledore, apparently, is gay. This makes the news in SF. We don’t really have local news in Brighton. Or it would probably be there too.
bobbiejohnson: Lord, heal my hurts. Apparently this is a real title for a real book. Fuckers.
bobbiejohnson: Just saw The Ron Jeremy. In person, I mean… I’m not watching porn or anything.
bobbiejohnson: Considering what to do this evening… you could stick a fork in the Web 2.0 Summit. Where next?
bobbiejohnson: San Francisco has the highest per capita levels of noodling saxophonist buskers anywhere in the world. Fact.
bobbiejohnson: Old man dressed as Father Christmas.
bobbiejohnson: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
bobbiejohnson: Getting ready for the Digger. He’s a pint-sized pocket full of mogul, that’s for sure.
bobbiejohnson: ## Writing in a Web 2.0 wonderland ##
bobbiejohnson: Twittering my lifestream. Apparently.
bobbiejohnson: Somebody just mistook me for Michael Arrington. Seriously.
bobbiejohnson: going to drop into the Wired offices for breakfast.
links for 2007-10-17 →