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| It's not pretty. It's not technically brilliant. It's just a travellog, or perhaps a travelogue. Some people with swankier browser-exclusive websites aren't having half as much fun as I am. The other thing you should do to become a successful blogger is change your website to use dotted lines and unreadable tiny fonts wherever possible. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging |
- Alex Fielding is always busy doing incredibly exciting things, like starting companies and running over cars in his Hummer. I met him and promptly got to do incredibly exciting things on my first full day in San Francisco. True to form, he was busy doing more exciting things the rest of the time.
- Chris Collins is a geek I met at WWDC 2004. I stayed with him in Sydney when I went to the Tiger Tech Talks in 2005. I will visit him again as part of my Christmas holidays in 2005.
- Eric Bridgstock was introduced to me by Tony, who met him through the Creativity column. I stayed with Eric and his family for a few nights in St. Albans.
- Grace Francis is a writer from New Zealand who moved to Regensburg at the request of a higher power. She works as a translator/multilingual secretary for the Bavarian police, who do much more than just regulating the consumption of bavarians. Grace is the only person I saw on my 2004 trip whom I had met in person before.
- Jeff Disher is an honest and decent developer I know disturbingly little about. He shared my room at the Marriott in San Francisco for a few nights in order to keep costs down.
- Marc Liyanage, formerly known as the weird Swiss guy from Zurich, is a weird Swiss guy from Zurich. He's also a Cocoa developer (not a chocolate maker.) I expect to meet him at the Apple Expo in Paris.
- Rob Rix is an artist. He writes music, software, stories, websites, apronyms and footnotes. He can also draw much better than I can. His parents Patricia and George Rix also write apronyms, as does his sister Melanie Merswolke. I met all of them when I travelled to the world-famous (you heard it first on travelling.macintosh.geek.nz) Canadian town of Paisley.
- Tony McCoy O'Grady has not only created more apronyms than anyone else on Earth, he also invented the word. Tony gained my friendship as a free gift when he became the first person ever to pay for my shareware, not suspecting that he'd end up having to play host when I visited Dublin.