Sydney day 1

After a late arrival yes­ter­day after a QANTAS ground­crew man­aged to dam­age the rear cargo door just prior to take off and the res­ult­ing two hour delay. As pho­to­graphs where sent around the globe to QANTAS engin­eers in Sydney, the Civil Avaition Author­ity in Can­berra and Boe­ing in Tacoma to get the ok to fly after some pan­el­beat­ing. Lach­lan and Lisa where good enough to pick me up from the air­port and deliver me to my hotel, which is great little apart­ment around the corner from Oz-IA.

First stop today was Pis­tol Cloth­ing which does tshirt print­ing on demand. Appar­ently most Sydney geeks does not know that this ser­vice exists. Unfor­tu­nately they did not have some of the more exotic col­ours in my size in stock. So I have to pick up the res­ults on Monday.

Next was Geeks on the Grass in Hyde Park, time to catch up with a few old friends and make some new ones, before get­ting a quick tour of the museum care of Ajay aka funky­coda.

Next involved Ben sneak­ing me into a internal News Digital Media present­a­tion on the mobile web. It was good to see such an intel­li­gent approach to the mobile web by a large com­pany. None of this get rich quick that seems to per­meate the mobile space. But a bal­ance approach of new oppor­tun­it­ies for exist­ing ser­vices and the lim­it­a­tions of the mobile web. The other sur­prise was how many people I know who now work for News Digital Media.

Back to the hotel, before pre din­ner drinks with Ajay and Stephen Collins while wait­ing for Ruth and Gary before head­ing of to Spice I Am for din­ner. The place has an fant­astic repu­ta­tion and it deserves it, the food is truely amaz­ing, I highly recom­mend eat­ing there at least once when you are in Sydney. I know I will eat there more than once in the next week. If want to see what it looked like keep an eye on Ruth’s and Gary’s aka Tuna flickr stream. Looks like Gary is upload­ing as I type this.

A final drink with Lind­say Evans, before head­ing back to the hotel with Ajay so he could look at prob­lems on a web site. And Myles you thought you were they only one who gets help the web­site is break­ing while hav­ing a quiet drink late on a Fri­day night.

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