Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again?

by | Oct 19, 2006 | Melbourne, Uncategorized

So yesterday was an interesting day. I think perhaps the best reaction to the magazine was from Garth Kidd who called me from a train station in Sydney about 5pm on his way home from work. He obviously hasn’t been reading the blog so he knew nothing about it and he walked up to a news stand, saw my picture, and started pissing himself laughing while the people around him gave him strange looks.

I got a few phone calls and emails but it wasn’t too crazy.

In middle of all that… I was driving around Melbourne about 12pm and my car started to splutter and cough and then died. I managed to steer it over to the curb before it came to a complete stop. The reason? Ran out of petrol. The warning light had been on for… a few hours? A day? A few days? I don’t know. Have been too busy to fill it up. Anyway so fortunately, I was about a block away from the BMW dealership where I bought the car two years ago, so I rang BMW Assist and they sent a guy over about ten minutes later to put some petrol in my tank. I also happened to stop just outside a café so I just calmly put my emergency lights on, went inside, got lunch, and sat there reading the Bulletin until BMW Assist arrived. Ah… the highs and the lows in a day. Who said there is a fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous?

Four days until I leave and I still don’t have accommodation for San Fran. There are going to be a few Aussie Web2.0 guys over there though (Chris Saad, Marty Wells, Nik Cubrilovic) so we’re talking about getting a place and throwing a good old fashioned Aussie BBQ.

God I have so much to do before I leave….

"Went down to St Tropez where Renoir paints the walls…"

Looking for accommodation in San Fran Oct 25 – Nov 15

by | Oct 17, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized

Okay so my trip to the US is confirmed. I’m arriving in LA on Oct 22 to attend the Digital Hollywood conference and then heading down to San Fran on Oct 25 or 26. I’ll be presenting at the ANZA TECH conference from Oct 30 – Nov 1 and then sticking around in SF until Thanksgiving. I’m doing the trip on an extreme budget so I’m looking for people to stay with while in SF. I’ll be bringing a sleeping bag. Just need any old floor. And wifi. 🙂

The Anza Tech conference is on in Sunnyvale, so something close to that would be handy.

Any takers? Please email me.

Also looking for advice on getting a mobile phone SIM card to use while I’m there. In the past I’ve bought a pre-paid T-Mobile card but they are BLOODY expensive. There has to be a better way. It’s just for finding people when I’m out and lost.

Anyone who wants to catch up with me while I’m over there, just drop me a line. Especially if have lots of money to invest in a podcast network or you want to be part of the TPN US management team.

Get This Week’s Bulletin Magazine

by | Oct 16, 2006 | Uncategorized

Josh Gliddon has written an article about Aussie Web2.0 entrepreneurs which is coming out in this week’s edition of The Bulletin magazine. I was interviewed for the story and apparently I’m on the cover (that was the photo shoot last weekend). Hopefully it’ll give us some good exposure in this country although the gist of the article is that Aussie web entrepreneurs need to go over to the US to get realistic valuations for their start-ups. It’s pretty cool that Josh has written this 2nd article on TPN at this defining moment for the business – he wrote the first mainstream media article on TPN back in February 2005 just as we were getting started, so this kind of feels like nicely orchestrated bookends. I’d link to the original article he wrote but Ninemsn’s archives seem to be completely borked.