On my way to my first ever Glastonbury I’ve popped over to San Francisco with work to the Velocity conference.
So far I’ve been a little jet-lagged but have enjoyed the sun, the space invaders themed hotel we are staying in, IHOP being the hotel restaurant and many chats with my colleague about what we can do to make guardian.co.uk work faster, smarter and more reliably.
Tonight I enjoyed a series of lightning talks from people across the industry. Enjoyed them, highlights include Paul Querna talking about libcloud which looks like something worth building on top of and Jesper Anderson talking about hacking emotion into social networks with examples like avoidr and the forgiveness engine. The latter is an innovative use of the net and something that fits right in with my view of the world - creating shalom (in this case reconciliation).
Very much looking forward to tomorrow.
The sun is shining, the air is beautifully warm and the sky is blue. I could and should have worn shorts this morning. The tails of my earbugs are snaking down my chest, sucking sound out of my iPhone and injecting it into my ear canals. That sound is Jónsi’s album Go and my stride [...]
I came across this video via Bishop Alan’s Blog. I utterly relate to the dichotomy between how people think of Jesus and how people think of Christians. Why is there such a gap when ‘Christ’s followers’ are meant to be mimicking the love, acceptance and subversive nature of Jesus that people really like and relate to? The [...]
A friend and source of inspiration of mine has recently launched his latest project. He has been doing amazing little profound lo-fi sketches for quite a while (and even has a little book with a collection of them in) and has now asked anyone who it interested in doing cover versions to take them and [...]
This week I’ve been hounded by a few friends to purchase a track by Delirious in order to get them to the top of the charts. This is in an effort to copy the successful social media campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s Killing in the Name Of to the top of the Christmas [...]