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Monday morn­ing at ReMIX. Cof­fee hadn’t quite kicked in. I wandered over to a man stand­ing, rather bemused, near the wall. Stephen Price. He was all the way from Perth on an overnight flight (read: 2 hours sleep). Steve’s card has cute car­toons.  A .Net developer in the day­time and a car­toon­ist in “his shed”

Stephen let me use the fol­low­ing car­toon in my Pop­fly session:

Cut to mid­day Monday. I draw his name out of a hat as a win­ner of a WACOM Bam­boo tab­let. Steve was over the moon: although he wasn’t quite sure if it would help or hinder his car­toon­ing. http://littlevoices.com/photos/scribbles/images/42/original.aspx:

Later on Monday night, as I left Web­Jam, Stephen was still going shoot­ing ali­ens in some game at Galactic Circus. 

QuT has a Bach­elor of Gam­ing and Enter­tain­ment. Cool­ness does not begin to explain this course. More than C++, it is also about the social aspects, his­tory, design — the whole works.

Dr Ross Brown and Penny Dren­nan are really cool: pas­sion­ate about their areas of expert­ise (and geeks from deep in their lives) — and pass on this to the next gen­er­a­tion of games designers.

May25th is Towel Day. A trib­ute to the great Douglas Adams. Or maybe just the joy that tow­els bring us.

Pic­tures from 2005 are here, and in 2006 someone panic’d and for­got to pro­mote the 25^th of May. Or the 25^th of May didn’t exist last year. Ah, no. Just moved the images to Flickr: tow­elday

I’ll be tak­ing a towel to work tomorrow.

JohnG, the nicest man on the planet, will­ing let me into his house to film another epis­ode of The Geek Stor­ies. Mayling filmed a behind the scenes show… which will be inter­est­ing to see, too. Server racks and a com­pac­tus in the games room. Now that’s impressive!

So, do you have Australia’s geeki­est house?

Angus Logan, Mr. Share­point around Microsoft Aus­tralia, has invited me to ask people ran­dom ques­tions at next week’s APAC Share­point Con­fer­ence.

So, if I ask you a ques­tion: please treat me kindly as I am a mere Share­point user, no expert.

Live in Melbourne?

Do you have your own Geek Story?

Are you free in the morn­ing of Thursday 17^th May?

Want to be as fam­ous as Leslie Nas­sar?

Email me with your story

Video cam­era, stream up, people watch your life. Obvi­ously, this mech­an­ism of pub­lish­ing is old as the inter­net itself — but with band­width increas­ing and alpha-geeks / rock-stars emer­ging in recent years — we are see­ing the new world being born.

The ini­tial years of large com­pany sponsored video-on-the web (think soap­flakes spon­sors in the 1950s) was fol­lowed by soap operas on You­Tube (think LonelyGirl15) to real­ity TV of Justin.tv (think Sur­vivor, without the dra­matic editing)

Insert 3D worlds of WoW, Second­Life and the like — we are see­ing Snow Crash and True Names appear before our eyes.

How long before thegeekstories.com is a live-to-web experience?

Yes­ter­day I man­aged to sneak into the ABC and grab this inter­view with Leslie Nas­sar. Liam and I met Leslie at Bar­CampSydney, and his style intru­iged me greatly. Rather than sub­scrib­ing to his news­let­ter, I decided to make him fam­ous on10.net.

6 Tb of audio data + 300,000 listen­ers to ABC Radio National is noth­ing to sneeze at. Espe­cially when you are doing the band­width accounting!

After the suc­cess of our hol­i­day to Japan in 2005, and after the accu­mu­la­tion of lots of Qantas Fre­quent Flyer points, its time to return to Japan. Work hol­i­day, flights, hotels, Shinkansen, JR, Cat sit­ters, Pass­ports. It’s all hap­pen­ing in July.

This time around, we are adding Kyoto, Hiroshima and Osaka into our Japan experience.

I hope to film at least 2 “The Geek Stor­ies” and be a little more online this trip to get the exper­i­ence “out there”. First step: Local Live Map

I loved doing this inter­view: two rock stars in the same room! Thanks to Joel Pobar and John Gough for their time last month.

John Gough is a world-respected expert on Com­pilers — a sor­cerer if you will; and Joel Pobar is one of his “apprentices” who went on to work on the .NET team in Redmond.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=299901

If you are into com­put­ing his­tory, com­pilers, mul­tiple pro­cessors and other deep tech­nical things: you’ll love this interview.

If you have geek that have a story that needs to be told: I’m there. Any sug­ges­tions? All I need is an email!