Gullible's Travels
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Persistence of Memory
Since about the age of fifteen I have kept a diary. Not so much "Dear Diary ..." more like "Went round to Bill's, played conkers".
I recently went up into the loft and came across my diaries from the early '80s when I was young, single and had a busy social calendar. When I read entries like "Drinks with Simon" and "Theatre with Caroline" I have to say I was thinking "Who the #~$* are Simon and Caroline?". Many of the names I recognised and am still in touch with but a scary number had sunk into the tar pit of time :-(
For a while I had a PDA - a Philips Nino - and that was my diary. When it eventually gave up the ghost I was left with 3 year hole in my memory. Now I have Gullible's Travels and it acts as off-site memory storage. It is like being able to Google my own brain to find out what I did and when!
So here is some spider food:
Since about the age of fifteen I have kept a diary. Not so much "Dear Diary ..." more like "Went round to Bill's, played conkers".
I recently went up into the loft and came across my diaries from the early '80s when I was young, single and had a busy social calendar. When I read entries like "Drinks with Simon" and "Theatre with Caroline" I have to say I was thinking "Who the #~$* are Simon and Caroline?". Many of the names I recognised and am still in touch with but a scary number had sunk into the tar pit of time :-(
For a while I had a PDA - a Philips Nino - and that was my diary. When it eventually gave up the ghost I was left with 3 year hole in my memory. Now I have Gullible's Travels and it acts as off-site memory storage. It is like being able to Google my own brain to find out what I did and when!
So here is some spider food:
- Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Went to see the recording of Ready, Steady, Cook
- Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - Went to see Youssou N'Dour at IndigO2
- Saturday, April 05, 2008 - Hosted dinner party for siblings and partners
- Friday, April 11, 2008 - Went down to Farnham to give Mum some internet coaching
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Blog Meeting 5
The best attended blog meet-up so far. About 22 members of "The London Bloggers Meetup Group" turned up to the Camel and Artichoke near Waterloo on Tuesday night. I drank a couple of glasses of very acceptable house red, talked to complete strangers and then went home.
It was a good choice of venue, the reserved tables upstairs gave us all room to sit comfortably. The people I spoke to were all suitably sociable - but then you wouldn't go to such an event unless you were, I suppose. They do food there which I will bear in mind for a future occasion. And it was very easy to hop on a train back to Wandsworth Town when came the time to leave.
Well done Andy for organising it.
For previous incarnations of this group see: "Blog Meeting 3" ¶ Permanent link: 2:02 PM 0 comments
The best attended blog meet-up so far. About 22 members of "The London Bloggers Meetup Group" turned up to the Camel and Artichoke near Waterloo on Tuesday night. I drank a couple of glasses of very acceptable house red, talked to complete strangers and then went home.
It was a good choice of venue, the reserved tables upstairs gave us all room to sit comfortably. The people I spoke to were all suitably sociable - but then you wouldn't go to such an event unless you were, I suppose. They do food there which I will bear in mind for a future occasion. And it was very easy to hop on a train back to Wandsworth Town when came the time to leave.
Well done Andy for organising it.
For previous incarnations of this group see: "Blog Meeting 3" ¶ Permanent link: 2:02 PM 0 comments
Friday, May 19, 2006
Blog meeting 3
London Bloggers Meetup Group:- May MeetUp
The group had gone dormant (see history below) but Jo from Tooting nobly stumped up the money to reactivate it. There had been a couple of previous meetups since that but this was the first I was able to get to.
Not so successful this one. Got to all-bar-one at 5 past 7 and was there for half an hour. Did three circuits of the place hoping for either 1) a sign or 2) for someone to spot a lost looking person. I accosted two groups asking if they were from meetup.com; felt sufficiently embarassed - sounds like a dating site for singles. At 7:40 got fed up and left.
Turned out I had got the details right it was just I was the only one to turn up. Oh well. Two future dates for your diary:
Britblog meeting Sunday 21-May-06 in Covent Garden:
• http://blog.britblog.com/2006/05/06/britblog-blogmeet-the-plan/
The London Bloggers June Meetup Tuesday 20-June-2006:
• http://blog.meetup.com/357/events/4938749/
And a mailing List, UK Bloggers social:
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukbloggers-social/
Past history:
• Tom Reynold sets up the London Bloggers Meetup Group
• I go to a meeting
• I go to another meeting
• Tom steps down as chair ¶ Permanent link: 5:03 PM 0 comments
London Bloggers Meetup Group:- May MeetUp
The group had gone dormant (see history below) but Jo from Tooting nobly stumped up the money to reactivate it. There had been a couple of previous meetups since that but this was the first I was able to get to.
Not so successful this one. Got to all-bar-one at 5 past 7 and was there for half an hour. Did three circuits of the place hoping for either 1) a sign or 2) for someone to spot a lost looking person. I accosted two groups asking if they were from meetup.com; felt sufficiently embarassed - sounds like a dating site for singles. At 7:40 got fed up and left.
Turned out I had got the details right it was just I was the only one to turn up. Oh well. Two future dates for your diary:
Britblog meeting Sunday 21-May-06 in Covent Garden:
• http://blog.britblog.com/2006/05/06/britblog-blogmeet-the-plan/
The London Bloggers June Meetup Tuesday 20-June-2006:
• http://blog.meetup.com/357/events/4938749/
And a mailing List, UK Bloggers social:
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukbloggers-social/
Past history:
• Tom Reynold sets up the London Bloggers Meetup Group
• I go to a meeting
• I go to another meeting
• Tom steps down as chair ¶ Permanent link: 5:03 PM 0 comments
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Blog meeting 2
Went to another Blog Meet yesterday. Unlike the previous Blog meet this had 10 pax rather than the previous 4 which made for a livelier meeting. They seemed mostly normal but then I would say that wouldn't I; I was there too! Not, as my wife suspects, all techno-geeks but a cross section of normal people. Some ate, all drank, all talked.
Compared to last time I drank less, went home earlier, woke up feeling more alert. Although that may also be thanks to Cleo not scrabbling on the laminate flooring at 2:30, 4:40 and 5:25 like the night before. ¶ Permanent link: 1:00 PM 2 comments
Went to another Blog Meet yesterday. Unlike the previous Blog meet this had 10 pax rather than the previous 4 which made for a livelier meeting. They seemed mostly normal but then I would say that wouldn't I; I was there too! Not, as my wife suspects, all techno-geeks but a cross section of normal people. Some ate, all drank, all talked.
Compared to last time I drank less, went home earlier, woke up feeling more alert. Although that may also be thanks to Cleo not scrabbling on the laminate flooring at 2:30, 4:40 and 5:25 like the night before. ¶ Permanent link: 1:00 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
A small blog meet in London town
So there were just the four of us that turned up at the Bell, Book and Candle last night. Me, Tom, Andrew and Helene (the last being blocked by the company firewall, I wonder why?).
To quote a reviewer on the Beer in The Evening site: "Unique kitsch gothic pub in the heart of the city. Makes a drastic change from drinking in bars which look rather like ikea. " Rather like the all-bar-one next door, couldn't have put it better myself.
It was slightly strange meeting strangers, I was unsure of the etiquette for such events, what does one talk about? I presume one's blog and the others blogs are OK but how deeply does one probe for motives or reveal of one's own.
It contrasted with my previous web meetings off the Marc Bolan mailing list where we had conversed for so long we already knew each other well but just had not happened to be at the same locus in the time-space continuum. ¶ Permanent link: 3:46 PM 0 comments
So there were just the four of us that turned up at the Bell, Book and Candle last night. Me, Tom, Andrew and Helene (the last being blocked by the company firewall, I wonder why?).
To quote a reviewer on the Beer in The Evening site: "Unique kitsch gothic pub in the heart of the city. Makes a drastic change from drinking in bars which look rather like ikea. " Rather like the all-bar-one next door, couldn't have put it better myself.
It was slightly strange meeting strangers, I was unsure of the etiquette for such events, what does one talk about? I presume one's blog and the others blogs are OK but how deeply does one probe for motives or reveal of one's own.
It contrasted with my previous web meetings off the Marc Bolan mailing list where we had conversed for so long we already knew each other well but just had not happened to be at the same locus in the time-space continuum. ¶ Permanent link: 3:46 PM 0 comments
