Entries from November 2008
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m back from 2 weeks working overseas and 2 weeks holidays. Had an amazing time and will be back blogging at full pace soon.
I miss all my geek pals and geek projects and am fully charged and ready to get back into it.
More news shortly.
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September 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments
in flight internet
Originally uploaded by bigmick
The World Just Changed
Wow!!!!
I’m on board next to a Six Apart guy and he pulls out this brochure from the seat folder thing and it says;
Wi-fi with Wings - Gogo
“WHAT???”
“Inflight Internet”
“No way!!!”
So for $12.95, I’m blogging from the clouds between [...]
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September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
good guide - no iphone?
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Good Guide launched a few minutes ago and it’s amazing. They research thousands of products and you can search to see if they are good or evil from an environmental, community, responsibility, niceness point of view.
Wow.
Very [...]
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September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen - Safety Pin
Originally uploaded by Marshall Astor - Food Pornographer
The panel format here at TechCrunch 50 #tc50 is really useful. You get to see a good demo, then here smart, experienced people deconstruct it.
There has been a lot [...]
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BRT_2873
Originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher
Great dinner last night in San Francisco with some good tech people. Great wine, great Thai (Basil on Folsom) and great talk.
Dan Kaplan was there (in real life for the first time) and gave some to-the-point insights. I get the feeling [...]
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September 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
big ugly sunglasses
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Yes, Phil is right, I am chomping up San Francisco. OK, I’ve only been here a few hours, but already a few big ticks.
Buy some big ugly $15 sunglasses (it’s California!) - Tick!
Drop into Citizen Agency - Tick!
Get some hugs [...]
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September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sloth in the Amazon
Originally uploaded by Praziquantel
Very quick update on the very slow progress.
The space we’re looking at apparently didn’t meet power regulations and weeks have been wasted in the testing, thinking, arse scratching, waiting, thinking, fixing, etc.
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Barcelona Sagrada Familia
Originally uploaded by Wolfgang Staudt
I’m taking off this Saturday. I’m heading for TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, some work in New York, some work in Barcelona and some not-work in the rest of Spain and maybe Andorra.
Mick’s Trip
If you’re near here, let me [...]
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September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
503 Service Unavailable - Is techcrunch down?
Originally uploaded by bigmick
Is it just me, or did TechCrunch just go down?
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September 1st, 2008 · 6 Comments
Caution: Beware of Descending Boom
Originally uploaded by bigmick
I saw this sign on a boom gate today and was struck - not by the boom gate - but by the fact that all is going really well at the moment but there is a foreboding sense [...]
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