My IRC channel, so imaginatively named #suwcharman, is celebrating its first birthday today! Happy birthday hash-me!! Spawned from #joiito originally as a place where I could talk to people away from the frenzy of Joi's channel, I never imagined it would actually end up being like a little home away from home where I could hang out with some way cool people. (In fact, I never thought it would last more than a week or so!)

Thanks to everyone on IRC for making my channel so much fun, and thanks to the guys at Freenode for running the servers in the first place.

There are more than 43 things that I want to do with my life, but it might take me a while to get them all into 43Things. Still you can always grab the RSS feed and see how my list progresses.

Just to prove that people really do use my IRC channel, #suwcharman on irc.freenode.net, and freely admit doing so.


Marekj, mid-chat.

...Since I last posted about what I'm up to, rather than stuff about ads or whatever. Been amazingly busy lately, so blogging has had to take a back seat really. So, a quick update:

Last weekend we were filming all weekend in London. We had to repeat some of the same scenes that we'd filmed in August, but which hadn't come out right. It was good to redo them - for a start this time round I knew how to use the camera so that made it much easier. Secondly, I think the acting was better too. Well, in so far as my acting could be described as 'better' - I'm not sure that there's gradations of terrible.

Saturday night, Vince and I went into London with John Rochester, Gary Turner and Tom Reynolds for a pint or two. Tom passed on Joey's present of a Shaun of the Dead trucker's cap, which was gratefully received:



Then dinner with Ross Mayfield on Tuesday night, which was a great evening out. Ross is a complete darling and a fascinating conversationalist. Wish I'd had a bit more time to talk to him, but I guess I'll just have to go over to the States and look him up on home turf. Also enjoyed speaking to a whole bunch of other really cool people. Photos from the event on Ross', Dave's and James' Flickr streams and on Beth's site. As usual, I took my camera and never got it out of my bag.

Did some more filming today - pick up shots of Vince and some 'documentary' footage to go with our outtakes. At this rate, all that footage cut together will be longer than the film itself. Still, it was kinda fun. Scarily easy to talk bollocks about the film for 40 uninterrupted minutes.

Off into town tomorrow and Tuesday. Svet's back in a week so gotta make the most of it.

Ross is over in the UK for a brief visit so there are plans afoot for dinner on Tuesday 16 Nov with him and a bunch of other cool people somewhere in central London. If you're interested in social tools in business, or just want to hang with Ross, then let Allan Engelhardt know and don't forget to include your email address so he can tell you where dinner's actually going to be.

In 1980 a small toy invented by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian obsessed with 3D geometry, became a smash hit. The almost impossible to solve Rubik's Cube was everywhere - in the shops, on TV, in the record books, but mainly in bits on frustrated children's floors.

I, like millions of other kids, had a Rubik's Cube and I, like millions of other kids, never managed to actually solve the problem. Instead I resorted to either taking the thing apart or trying unsuccessfully to peel off the coloured plastic stuck to the cube's faces so as to rearrange the colour without rearranging the cube.

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