“Standing in the mud yet being burnt by the sun. Glastonbury, Glastonbury you are so much fun.”
spoken through SpinVox
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Speaking Freely – Bongos
“I have just seen a priest playing bongos. Now I have seen everything.”
spoken through SpinVox
Burning My Candle
"I burn my candle at both ends, it may not last the night,
but oh my foes and oh my friends, my candle does burn bright."
spoken through SpinVox
Speaking Freely – Shopping List
“This is my shopping list so I can read it later. Vine tomatoes, whole juicy cucumber, iceberg lettuce, two lemons, lots of fresh mince, need some red peppers, some kidney beans, some vegetarian mince I think. And some herbs. Some eggs. Thank you, bye.”
spoken through SpinVox
Less than 24hrs in San Francsico
Things to make and do…
So I’ve kinda got the blog-bug back again.
I don’t know why it’s back, or where it’s been etc…
All I know is that I’ve got a bunch of stuff I want to write up.
I could just mass-post the lot, like I did last time, but I think too much content is a bit of overkill.
So here’s just a quick list of things I’d like to write up:
(thanks to Mr Lloyd Davis for the photo too by the way)
- I was in a cabaret show the other day. Must blog it.
- The BBC interview I did. Must blog it, (properly).
- Some general life things, 6mths with SpinVox etc.
- The (self-imposed) T-Shirt Challenge
- San Francisco (I covered Vegas already)
And I think that’s it…
I’m going to try and cram everything in over the coming days. But it won’t be more than one post a day… Can’t suddenly increase the words for my loyal readers!
Thanks by the way – whoever you are…
On that note. I’m painfully aware that only VOX members are able to comment on my posts. Which is kinda sucky. So I’m moving… not yet, but soon… to a decent blog-hosting page etc.
A good friend is helping me sort it out at the moment, once we’ve got the template finished, then starts the massive (again, self-imposed) job of consolidating.
I’ve been blogging all over the place for the best part of three years now. So I’m going to go way back to my very first blog and pool all my posts together under one roof…
Like a back catalogue see?
Cool. Expect that sometime before the Summer… (hopefully).
In the meantime – if you want to comment and you’re not a member of VOX, then just drop me a text and tell me what you think… my number is +447774898681.
Looking forward to hearing from you…
And finally…
I got my ticket to Glastonbury! Wheeee!
Kinda has some special resonance on this here VOX as Glastonbury was the reason why I started here, remember?
🙂
EDIT – This is a re-post from VOX so you’re looking at my new home now -Woo!
Speaking Freely – The Rickmob
“I’ve just been to the Rick Astley Flash Mob at London’s Liverpool Street and it was frigging hilarious. I should be uploading a video as soon as I get in front of my laptop. Fantastic.”
spoken through SpinVox
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EDIT – As promised, here’s the video:
EDIT 2 – Thanks to the immediacy of this post – I ended up appearing on The BBC’s ‘Pods & Blogs’ programme. I’ll see if I can get my hands on the audio and put if up for you…
Whee! 🙂
Catching up through the fog of jetlag
Greetings one and all! I’ve just got back from the States and I am shattered.
UK –> Dallas –> Las Vegas –> San Francisco –> UK
…and breathe…
Had to fly to Las Vegas for a work thing see…
via Dallas.
Rather amusingly, it being the first ever flight from LHR (London Heathrow) to DFW (Dallas, Fort Worth) the Boeing we travelled in was given a welcome ‘hose down’ by the airport’s fire trucks…
I didn’t get a picture of that – but I found another example
Anywhoo – Vegas.
Woah…
Nice place to visit and wotnot but I’d never wanna live there. Jeez.
I stayed at The Palms Hotel/Resort/Casino… The one where we held Mobile Geeks of Las Vegas… aka Mobile Geeks of London ON TOUR. What a fantastic night THAT was. Huge props to Mr Jeb Brilliant of Brilliant Expos for making that happen… and for also swinging it so we could just walk straight into the club/bar in the next tower. Nice work.
So yeah – What else did I get up to?
- Took part in the ‘Mobile Web Jam Session’ – That was cool. Good people in the room. Same old same old problems mind…
- Hung out with some cool folk – Namely: Darla, Amir, Jeb, Carlo, Rafe and Ewan. Carlo is actually insane enough to live in Vegas. But you wouldn’t think of it to know him. 🙂
- Joined a Blogger round table regarding the future of mobile; thought about a Facbook Phone – I’ve already written up my thoughts on that.
- Broke my shoes. Twice. Fixed the first pair, replaced the second.
- Saw ‘some’ parts of Vegas. Not loads. Well… I saw the outsides of some of the more elaborate hotels.
- And that’s kind of it really…
This was me, on the last day of the show, having just sat down and relaxed for the first time in about five days…
Not soon after this pic was taken I flew to San Francisco…
There’s more to come soon, I just need to get some shuteye…
Night night.
Zzz…
Mobile Geeks of London: ON TOUR!
We’re bringing the MGoL to Las Vegas!
So – You may or may not know that a while back I set up a little facebook group called ‘The Mobile Geeks of London‘. Basically a place where I could meet people like me I guess…
Hehehe…
And well – it’s grown.. and grown.. and grown! …last count, 294 members!
We had our 3rd official meetup a little while back and it was great.
(I’ll do a larger post on MGoL in general sometime soon – yeah – should do that)
Anywhoo – I mentioned the other day that I as headed to Las Vegas with SpinVox for CTIA and within 24hrs I had an email from my friend Jeb Brilliant (no really – that is his name – and yes, he is Brilliant) telling me that he loved the MGoL idea and had been waiting for a chance to get one stateside…
And so….
HERE WE ARE!!
The stuff below has been taken from the facebook group. If you’re not on facebook then drop me an email at yahoo do co dot uk and Iet me know you’re coming… Looking forward to it already!
🙂
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It’s CTIA next week and on the evening of Monday 31st March at The Playboy Club in Las Vegas the Mobile Geeks of London are having their first ever OFFICIAL ‘overseas’ meetup!
The Time: 8pm onwards
The Date: Monday March 31st
The Place:
The Playboy Bar
Palms Casino Resort
4321 West Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89103
52nd floor of the Fantasy Tower
http://www.palms.com/playboy_club_1.php
(note – it ain’t a strip club – I checked)
Also – it being the first ever overseas event – I have to break my self-imposed ‘no sponsor’ rule…
The upside of this being that
a) We get a fantastic venue thanks to Yougetitback.com
and
b) Your first drink is free thanks to SpinVox
So:
Mobile Geeks of Las Vegas brought to you in conjunction with SpinVox.
Sponsored by Yougetitback.com and organised by Brilliant Expos…
AND FINALLY!
I know most of the Mobile Geeks of London on this mailing list are, by definition, NOT based in Las Vegas.
But next week… some of you may be.
Either way – Hope to see you there!
(and if you know anyone else who might be in Vegas – let them know too)
http://www.spinvox.com
http://yougetitiack.com
http://www.brilliantexpos.com
Life is good…
Yesterday I had one of the best conversations, EVER.
It was only when I had this conversation did I realise how good life actually is at the moment.
An old friend called me up and it went a little something like this…
“Hi James, s’been ages! How are you?”
“Me? I’m good man. Yeah, it’s been SO long! We should definitely catch up sometime soon.”
“Great idea, you free tonight?”
“No mate. Not tonight, going to see R.E.M. at The Royal Albert Hall.”
“Oh. Nice!”
“Yeah. I thought so. Random ticket appeared in my hands from up high. Can’t say no. Got a box and everything!”
“Cool! Ok, how about we do lunch one day this week? When are you in London next?”
“I think I’m in town tomorrow…”
“Ok, we’ll do lunch tomorrow. Sushi or something?”
“Oh. No. Can’t mate, sorry. Bugger. Got an interview at the BBC.”
“WHAT?!”
“Yeah! I know! Cool huh?! Rory-Cellan Jones, Technology Correspondent. Should be good!”
“Right then, the weekend? We could have a lazy pub afternoon on Sunday. A few beers, roast dinner.. proper Sunday y’know? How’s that sound?”
“No can do mate. I’m flying to Las Vegas on Sunday…”
“WTF?!”
“Yeah! Flying out with SpinVox on Sunday afternoon for a big Wireless conference called CTIA. Looking forward to it, should be cooool! Never been to Vegas before….”
“Ok ok ok! When do you leave Vegas?”
“Thursday…but…”
“Ok! We’ll go out Friday!”
“No, I didn’t finish. Thursday I fly to San Francisco to host a lunch for some west coast bloggers… Fly home Friday night. Land Saturday afternoon.”
“Jeez, you’re gonna be knackered!”
“Yeah man, I know. Then I’ve got my show on the Sunday at Madam Jo Jos!”
“Right then. I’ll come see that then.”
“Hehehe… Yeah! Ok, do that!”
🙂
On top of ALL that, found out today one of my dear friends (who has NOTHING to do with the mobile industry) just so happens to be in Vegas at exactly the same time as me!
So we get to hang out and stuff which is just all kinds of cool…
This, by the way, isn’t some massive brag of a blog post. Life is going well at the moment. And I’m loving it.
Had my 6mth review with SpinVox this morning.
SIX MONTHS!
It seems like only yesterday that I was handing in my notice at Refresh Mobile…
How times flies when you’re having fun eh?
Speak soon folks..
🙂
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