Do You Know The Way [Home] From San Jose?

Well the planned trip home got as far as sitting down in American 757, before we all got off again. Turns out the engines were not going to do the engine thing, so the flight was cancelled and we were ‘asked’ to call American’s Telecenter to get different flights out to New York JFK.
I suspect […]

I Hope You’re Adaptable, Dr Scott

Friday after PalmSource DevCon. Here’s what the original plan was. Fly down to San Diego, meet up with Jim McMurray (mcunixjr on #joiito), hang around a bit, before some shopping on Saturday and fly home Sunday morning. Well, we changed the plans, and it was such a great day I’m glad we did.
Joi Ito was […]

Final Post Direct from PalmSource DevCon

It’s all over.
I am absolutely shattered. If I could have split in two by a horrible transporter accident, I could have covered twice as much and still not met everyone I wanted to, or talked to the hundreds of interesting people that All About Palm can help and be helped by. So rather than a […]

It’s The Perfect Time To Resign

Interesting day (Tuesday) today at the PalmSource DevCon. My main ‘goal’ of the event is to speak to as many people as possible, find out about them, and let them find out about All About Palm.
So a lunchtime meeting with Patrick Hurley from AirSet (a mixing of web based group calendaring with a mobile client […]

Visitng Mike, Ellie and Russ

Had a chance to catch up with people I know in the San Jose / Bay area yesterday, namely Mike Rowehl (Feedster and Mobile Mondays), Elle Kruszewski and Russ Beattie. Mike and Elle is clearly a house that has a lot of geeks passing through it - why else would a whiteboard in the kitchen […]

If You’re Trying To Call Me…

For some unknown reason (the closest I can come up with being “US GSM networks are frakked”) I can’t receive any incoming calls on my mobile. Argh!
SMS seems to be working, so if you need me in regards to PalmSource DevCon, or you want to sort out a time to meet up for drinks or […]

Thoughts On Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith

So I’ve landed in San Jose, booked into a lovely Travelodge room, and it’s about Eight Thirty Pacific time. Irrespective of the fact my body’s now been on the go for 23 hours, I need to find something to do for three hours to get myself fully into the timezone. So a short walk into […]

What Did Robocop Know?

American television is usually hilarious, especially when it goes into “protect the innocent” mode. Case in point on Saturday night as I’m getting ready to explore San Jose to find somewhere showing “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.” One of the cable channels is showing Robocop.
Now the ITV ‘dubbed for language’ version is absolutely hilarious, […]

Safely Landed In San Jose

Oh that was a long day of travelling.
Getting up at 0530 in the UK to get my flight from Edinburgh to London, then London to Los Angeles, finishing with another hour long hop from Los Angeles to San Jose was a lot more tiring than previous flights to get to San Diego.
I think the reason […]