Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So let me get this right. I walk through a door, sit down in a tube for a few hours, stand up and walk out the tube again. Do that three times, and I won’t be in Texas any more, but back home in Edinburgh? Magic.
AirBnB is a great idea, and for many people it works, but the issue for the company is that the core product – rooms – are not under their control. One bad experience because of a poor listing or miscommunication will sour the experience for one person and the rule of thumb of the ten people they tell. Given that it happened to one of my friends in Dusseldorf, being mis-sold a room and not having a "fall back" when visiting somewhere leaves AirBnB a touch vulnerable. It’s an interesting idea, and I do wish it the best of luck,
Michael MacIntyre thinks they are everywhere, I just wish there was a Greggs at Heathrow Terminal 3
When you have so many people converging on one location, such as SXSW Interactive, there’s always some synchronising of travel plans, and it looks like the Brits have decided that flying in to Dallas, and then taking the American Airlines hop to Austin is the way to travel. It’s the Dallas to Austin to flight at 1615 on Thursday 11th March (AA 1701), and strangely enough, even though I’m travelling from San Francisco and not Heathrow, I’ll be joining this flight with at least six other Brits. There may well be others that I don’t know about, as well as
So the USA trip is over, and I’m getting back into the current time-zone; but there are a lot of great memories. Too many to mention them all, but here are a few highlights. I’m not going to mention all th great people I met, as it’s going to take a good few days to go through all the cards and notes to make sure I follow everyone up (and if I miss you, please just email me and say where you met me). But now, the highlights….
Well I say liveblog, more notes that I’m making on the EEE as I fly, hence thenewer posts are at the bottom of this one. I’ll uploaded them when I get somewhere that’s not 6 miles up in the air, free Wi-fi enabled planes this 777 is not. (All times PST). 0500: The American Airlines cabin crew on this flight have never tasted Thornton’s Continental before now. And they like them. Lucky me… 0700:Scribefire might be the best option for blogging on the Ubunutu powered EEE, but it’s not a patch on Windows Live Writer… probably the finest bit of
