Geek Dinners
Food. Geeks. Girls.
As a way of attempting to encourage more women to submit sessions for DDD7 I decided that bribery a prize might help. All you need to do is submit a session, and present it if it’s selected and you could win a 1 year MSDN Team Suite subscription, worth just over £8500. Full details are on the London Girl Geek Dinners web site. (If none of your sessions are selected by the attendees I shall be drawing a name from the hat). So what are you waiting for? Think of a session; submit it. And while you’re at it talk...
Wednesday 21st February sees both the nxtgenug and girly geek dinners. For the nxtgenug, Oxford branch, we have Ben Goetlz, taking us on a tour of BizTalk. Ben has been rather shy in his speaker biography and failed to point out he was one of the co-authors on the first BizTalk 2006 book out there. The London Girl Geek Dinners this month have Jeff Barr from Amazon talking about web services. Amazon are also sponsoring the event, so there will be a few bottles of wine knocking about for consumption. Remember if you're male you must be invited by a female...
Dear Zune Marketing,
Thank you for attempting to brand device to device transfer of music as "squirting". It enables me to make a number of smutty jokes and encourages school boy humour.
Yours, Barry.
So anyway Dinner #9 of the London Girl Geek Dinners was on Wednesday in a very noisy Balls Bothers in London. The speakers were Mary Sharoe, talking about how to survive as a woman in the geek world (despite being an honourary girl at these events I felt that one didn't apply to me <g>), Nicholas Anpazis on Feeds 2.0 (yummy, an RSS aggregator that learns and recommends; except...
My poor wife. She came along to the geek dinner last dinner. She discovered I'm not alone in my obsession with electronic toys. Rachel had her Portable Media Player, complete with dodgy video, then Keni and Frank Shaw our guest from Waggener Edstrom produced the tablet PCs. Keni's Toshiba was sexy enough, but Frank had a little slim light lovely little thing, which I think was an Electrovaya Scribbler. Hard to choose really, Frank's had a decent battery life but Keni's had a decent keyboard. We even had a proper astrophysicist, Andrew (whose blog also mentioned Galaxie 500,...
There's finally a UK geek dinner scene, kicked off by Scoble of course, although he won't be in attendance. The first dinner is tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd February at One Aldwych. The special guest is Frank Shaw, vice president at Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's PR firm. You'd think that Robert would be giving him grief about not having a corporate blog.
Not a car park in sight though, which is a shame as I'm having to drive in from the client site near Oxford.