Geek Dinner With Molly Holzschlag

Great evening at the Geek Dinner last night, with guest Molly Holzschlag. I've only been to one other, where Chris Anderson gave us a talk about The Long Tail, so I was a bit surprised that Molly didn't give a presentation as such, but we all enjoyed her company and she was pleased to chat with anyone about anything.

It was nice to catch up with existing friends; Sheila Farrell, Robert Lee-Cann, Ross Bruniges, Ian Forrester and Chris Heilmann, plus make some new ones! I had interesting chats with:

• Laurence Postgate about freelancing, design, beer and rugby
• Paul Boag on freelance photography
• Molly about her nomadic lifestyle!
• Andy Mitchell about beer and geeks ;-)
• Eystein Alnæs on web design, Norway and Huskies
• David Long about blogging and design
• Frances Berriman on girlie geeks

So there we are, a good group of names I can now put faces to - see you at the next one folks!

Oh, and fresh from the recent Microformats WSG-meet, I've marked this up with a load of hCard info :-)

Upcoming Events

I've recently signed up for Upcoming.org so I can keep an eye out on what's in the pipeline in the near future. Two events caught my eye, coincidentally on consecutive evenings (all we need is a third one and they'll be like London Buses...)

Thursday 19th October
Web Standards Group Meeting # 2 where Microformats will be discussed. See Muffinresearch.co.uk for more details.

Friday 20th October
London Geek Dinner, special guest Molly E. Holzschlag. See the Geek Dinner website for more details.

Both events look like a good evening; perhaps I'll see some of you there.