Thursday, 27 November 2003

CBS News | The Strange World Of Web Celebs | November 20, 2003 19:40:52

I turned the TV on this morning and saw a segment on the "Today Show".  They ran a segment originally produced by CBS about the Star Wars Kid:

A kid alone with a video camera waving a golfball retriever, like a Jedi warrior. A private moment of clumsy 10th grade innocence until four classmates put the tape on the Internet.

Today, as CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports, this 15-year-old small town Canadian is known to tens of millions planet-wide as the "Star Wars Kid."
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[listening to: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley ]
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It's quiet

I've been going through my inbox and I have noticed that there isn't as much noise as normal.

I was wondering why - and then it dawned on me -- Thanksgiving

We need some dancing turkeys to celebrate!

[listening to: Holiday - Madonna ]
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Sify.com: "the .NET Evangelist."

I worked for Sanjay back in 1994 & 1995 during the heady pre-dotcom, interactive tv days. He was a great boss and a good friend to me. After all these years, he is still a very approachable dude who returns my emails.

[listening to: What Kind of Fool Am I? - Anthony Newley ]
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Cam Reilly liked my session!

I'm delighted to read that Cam Reilly liked my session at the partner conference!

Thx mate. I hope you are inspired and can spread the word that Microsoft really wants to help make ISVs be successful.

[listening to: New Technology - Waikiki ]
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Travel to Melbourne

The final leg of my journey - I'm heading down to Melbourne to catch up with my team and spread some more love.

The journey didn't start so well -- we sat on the runway at Coolangatta airport for over 30 minutes, as the Qantas staff frantically searched for a passenger that had not boarded. They did a head count, went through all the luggage and then finally realized that their list was wrong! There was no missing passenger! So we finally left, late.

Time now to catch up on email

[listening to: Albuquerque - Weird Al Yankovic ]
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End of Partner Conference

The last day of the partner conference has come & gone.

It was a busy for me - this time I was working on one of the exhibition booths, as well as my regular 'swanning' around. I got to chat with another bunch of partners, such as managed business outcomes, expert is, ozbizweb, excom & oxon data systems. I spoke to many, many more people, but I didnt grab their cards and cant remember them at the moment..

I also had a series of "chats" with some journos - James Pearce from ZDNET and Fleur Doidge from CRN. I also had a session with 2 great guys from Meta Group. Each of these chats were fun and I'm sure I said stuff I shouldnt - oh well c'est la vie.

The evening then wrapped up with the Gala Dinner, which included a number of partner awards. Two ISVs did really well - Brookstone, won 2 awards and Wireless IP won 3. Good to see these guys doing well!

Then we danced. The band was The Gotham City Horns. And they played their standard repertoire  You can hear some of their music on their download page. The lead singer thought he was Ricky Martin!

After the dancing and the singing and the awards, the party moved to the bar. A late night was had by all

[listening to: I Will Survive - Gotham City Horns ]
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