2013-11-06 (Wednesday)

@holgate Oh yes! I meant to watch that and then forgot to note it anywhere that would remind me. Ta.

@waxpancake Great, thanks! I’ve got a lot to see.

@waxpancake @mathowie I already have Maciej’s lined up, and I’ll add Jack Conte too, thanks!

@Zoonie The 7 replies are in my @ replies. Might blog a longer list at some point in the future.

@nickd @wilsonminer Thanks Nick, I’ll take a look!

@Coudal @mathowie @cabel @mike_ftw @jkottke @webstock I already have Jason’s on my “to watch” list, but thanks for the pointer!

@holgate @anildash Thanks, I’ll have a look!

@mathowie @cabel @mike_ftw Brilliant, thank you. I’m making a list of things I should watch, having not done many conferences for a while.

@moleitau Oh yes, I saw someone else link to that but forgot to note it down. Thanks!

What are the best conference talks you’ve seen this year, on any subject, which have videos available online? Any really really good ones?

@rmdash @samuelpepys He did - here’s the full diary entry for the day: pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/11/…

@infovore @aanand Stop sitting on the seats! One day they’ll rise up and sit on YOU! #oppressedbusseat

@mildlydiverting (Unless you were asking about deeper organisational reasons, which I’ll leave to them!)

@mildlydiverting (In absence of any of them replying) ‘Cos GDS is Cabinet Office & every separate part of government will get their own GDS.

@alruii @antimega Artisanal ketchup hand-crushed from heirloom English tomatoes by a DH Lawrence lookalike.

Reviewing documentation I find: ‘This field defaults to <code title="Stop trying to make fetch happen!">fetch</code>’.

@chrislunch You appear to have woken up in a computer game.

@warrenellis I was in the futurist field in the past so I think that makes me squarely in the present.

OH: "I'm going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I'm going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast."

What if Harry Potter had to leave from Platform 8½ and ended up in an avant-garde Italian magic school

Weird, if awesome, seeing @moleitau mentioned in this month's Iron Man: