Please mind the gap. The next stop is @media
Wednesday June 8, 2005 - Permanent link to this post -
Train tickets? Check. Powerbook? Check. Completely reasoned and rational fear of London? Check. Stand back fom the doors, we're going to @media.
I leave tonight for London and whilst I'm really looking forward to the event iteself as well as meeting some of the people who's blogs I read daily and who's work has so inspired me, I'm absolutely shitting it.
It's London, you see. The big city. Noise. Smog. Violence and thievery. I don't go to London very often, mostly for these reasons, but when I do have to, I just get so nervous.
In London I walk around with my hands firmly planted on my pockets to avoid the cities infamous band of singing pickpockets, as exposed by the documentary film, Oliver Twist. Ain't no orphans getting their grubby mitts on my pennies! I'm constantly looking over my shoulder but being very careful not to glance directly into the eyes of a "Southerner". They can, hear tell, be a dangerous lot. Just look at Jack the Ripper and tell me I'm wrong.
So this time around I go to London carrying my laptop, camera, iPod and enough money for two beers (which I'm told is about £40 in the capital). Do I expect to get out alive? I'd be lying if I said I was sure.
We need to band together, geeks. I'm sure that the London lot can stand up to themselves; after all, they'll be hardened to it by now, but us non-London-initiated geeks need to stick together if we're to get out with our Apples in tact. Strength in numbers is what is required.
Who's with me?
