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Fife Tweetup #fifetweet up – date, time and venue confirmed.

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:46:27 +0000

Okay kids, now here it is (a groove slightly trans-formed…for the summertime)

The tweetup is finalised:

Date: 22 August 2009

Venue: Fisher & Donaldson, Factory Cafe, Cupar (click here for a map)

Time: 2.00pm

Questions?

#fifetweetup the date has been set!

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:14:47 +0000

Hey folks, In the most democratic way possible, the best date for #fifetweetup was the afternoon of the 22nd of August.

As that is a good month away it gives times for others to join us. It also gives time for the Ceramic Experience in Cupar to re-open as it is currently closed due to flood damage. I was thinking we could move the venue to Fisher & Donaldson by Tesco in Cupar (the one stuck to their factory) if “The Ceramic” doesn’t re-open in time.

Looking forward to meeting you all.

Guy

aka @guydavidcross

Follow this link to view the poll: http://doodle.com/5h2d6gre8yyfnwee

Tweetup Planning Stage One

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:15:58 +0000

Last night I had the idea that I would love to go to a tweetup. As there aren’t local to me in Fife (as far as I know) I thought I should just get on with it and organize one myself.

I sent out this wonderfully eloquent message

@guydavidcross Has been pondering organizing a tweetup, anyone geeky enough to come along? #Fife #Dundee (please rt)

And I got a few replies saying that people would go, so I have decided to start planning.

The intricate planning stage will be followed by a brief implementation phase and then a drawn-out evaluation/regret session.

Things to consider:

When to have the tweetup
Where to have the tweetup

Point two is easy, I live almost upstairs from an excellent cafe with free wifi and awesome cakes, and there is even a car-park across the road!

When is a little more challenging, but as always there is a web 2.0 app to help. I have set up an event on Doodle. Some people at work use Doodle to plan meetings, and it seems cool.

Click here to let me know when you would be able to attend a tweeup in Cupar, Fife.

I look forward to meeting everyone!

Guy

Memory Sticks, Why are they so bad?

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:56:32 +0000

Memory sticks, can’t live with them (please delete as appropriate) and their everywhere/can’t live without them. I go through memory sticks like celebraties go through spouses.

Within this room I am joined by three of my previous memory sticks, all of which are broken. Two of them have broken in one of the corners where they would be attached to my key-ring and the other has almost been snapped into two pieces after being dropped whilst inside my netbook (fortunately I managed to save the data and the netbook wasn’t damaged).

At this point I remember a podcast by, king of the British Digirati, Stephen Fry. In this podcast Steven talks about the easy pot-holes writers/broadcasters can fall into. As Steven puts it “emotion is so much easier to access than reason” and that is exactly how I feel. I want to write a post to re-launch my blog and I have broken another memory stick!

I know I am putting off the inevitable, I am going to have to spend some serious $$$ (as I will probably buy it from ebay) and get myself a Lacie iamakey/itsakey. These fellows look really sturdy, so I think I shall buy one.

Does anyone have a favourite memory stick?

PS – I really think you should listen to the podcast, it’s awesome!