ME: Dave Winer thinks people should start a $150 million fund to try to tempt George Bush out of office. He says he’d chip in $5k.
ANTOINE: Why does he want Dick Cheney to be president?
ME: Maybe he’s a closet neo-con?
ANTOINE: It reminds me of when some lunatics tried to say that the Republicans “stealing” the […]
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There’s a SMC meeting tomorrow, at Fleishman Hillard’s Covent Garden office (it’s literally on top of Covent Garden Underground station), in their massive new event room. I can’t make it, due to an appointment I cannot wriggle out of, and I’m gutted. Should be a good crowd and great conversation, especially with Lloyd Davis taking […]
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People never cease to amaze me when it comes to claiming they’re experts in the flavour of the month.
A few weeks ago, a certain marketing director called me in to “pick [my] brains” about social media (I was paid for this). Time and again, he repeated, “I really know nothing about this stuff” and wondered […]
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I don’t agree with all of his random notes, but Hugh is far and away one of the most sound, sensible people in this arena. Also, I admire his use of profanity.
The notes I’d like to pound into the head of most people:
6. Blogging is a great way to make things happen indirectly. I […]
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Hampton Court Palace - backyard
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I took this behind the formal gardens at Hampton Court Palace. It seems pretty wild and isolated, and you can almost trick yourself into believing there’s not another living soul for miles, but you’re never more than 1000 yards or so from the busy A307 or Hampton Court […]
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Motivation is hard to come by these days, or at least it feels that way. When you’ve got a mile-long list of things to accomplish which are all important and urgent, you always feel behind and inadequate, no matter how much you get done. Or at least I do.
Worse, I start to isolate myself, […]
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Claire and Antoine on Hampstead Heath, 1965
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It’s Antoine and his mother, on Hampstead Heath in 1965. I hope any children of ours inherit her sense of style.
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It’s going slowly, mostly because I have 100+ photographs to edit for it, too. Plus, I need to re-write a lot of my recipes, because the person I’m giving this to is an American and I don’t want her to have to try to figure out what coriander is (cilantro, duh!). Considering all the time […]
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Kelly makes apple crisp at 11PM
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My friend Kelly, a former Miss New Hampshire and current mother of two and all-around force of nature, is really my kind of girl. Antoine and I will be spending some time with her and her husband (a pro baseball manager) when we head back to the […]
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I’m editing a cookery book this weekend, using Blurb, which I’ll also use to publish it. (It’s being created for one specific recipient, though, so the book isn’t intended for sale.) So far, this is fun and somewhat entrancing, which I guess is why I’m still working on it at 4.30 in the morning.
Speaking […]
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The whistle
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This is a moulin (which locals - or maybe just Antoine’s mother, who nicknames everyone and everything - call le sifflet, the whistle) on a hill behind Antoine’s parents’ house in Provence. It is also one of the most reassuringly remote places I have ever spent time. Everyone should have a […]
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Still catching up on my blog reading, I learn that my buddy Ben Casnocha has moved to Boulder for Q1 of 2007 to work with a prestigious VC firm. Hey, how’d that happen? I’m not surprised that blogging had something to do with it:
My first “real” business meeting several years ago was with Greg Prow, […]
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Grand Havana Room, Beverly Hills
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(I’m stealing this idea from Chris and a bunch of other people.)
Lately I’ve been craving really good sushi. I seem to have kissed a lot of mediocre sushi frogs in an effort to find a sushi prince in my neighbourhood - and as anyone who loves sushi knows, […]
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Antoine will be giving the 20th anniversary talk of the Putney Debates tonight, on Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail. (I won’t be there, as I’ll be hosting a dinner in Chelsea for Squander Two.) Antoine always gives good talks, so I’m sad to miss it.
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