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Feb 21, 2008

Robots In San Francisco

First off, thanks to everyone at Walking With Robots for such a brilliant 3 days. You guys rule! Also, thanks to all of you blog friends for visiting the Walking with Robots blog and saying ‘hi’. We all really appreciated it. A super, special thanks to Jonathan Sanderson for asking me along. Nice to finally work with you after all these years!

Now, I am mental busy.

I’m heading off to San Francisco first thing tomorrow. Brian has been invited to speak at TED which is the initial reason for our trip. We are also going to meet up with friends and people from Seesmic (who are friends, too, but I wanted to give them a special link :).

Apart from the whole, boring ‘cleaning stuff from Bristol, cleaning stuff for SF, getting 12 days’ of stuff ready for my son who’s here while we’re away’ domestic rubbish, I also have a lot to do for Water Lilies (yes, that’s an invitation to check out the site!:). I suspect I might be ripping DVDs and putting clips up online from Business Class on the Munich to SF flight tomorrow… cos I don’t think I’ll have time today.

Broadband on planes is a life-saver.

5 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Jonathan

    Huge, huge thanks for your time and talents this week, Gia. There was a moment where I said to one of the organisers ‘I think the group’s about the right size’ and you squeaked ‘We’re at the limit!’ when I really felt for you.

    Plus, without being too smug about it, I think your interview with Nathaniel and Dip (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6sFLmY0hHoI) is the best single summary of what the three days was about. Great stuff.

    Terrific to finally work with you - I hope there’ll be more such occasions.

    Feb 21st, 2008

  2. giagia

    Haha! Well, i think we could have handled a few more people generally, but there wasn’t enough room *physically* for any one else!

    Feb 21st, 2008

  3. Jase

    Do they still offer internet on flights? I thought that service was withdrawn a while back?

    Feb 21st, 2008

  4. giagia

    Jase, I freakin’ hope they’ve still got it. It’s not cheap, but it really would be most helpful if I could upload clips tomorrow.

    Feb 21st, 2008

  5. sean808080

    hey there
    sorry you got caught by a design flaw of the seesmic widget. i expect this issue will be resolved shortly. i’ve jotted down some notes of the impact of this behavior here:

    http://sean808080.com/blog/a-social-media-experiment-gone-awry-seesmic-and-x-files/

    cheers

    Jul 6th, 2008

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Gia Milinovich is an American ex-pat, a science groupie and professional dork.

Gia recently worked on The X Files: I Want To Believe. Previously, she wrote the Sunshine production blog, was involved in the Indy4/Seesmic online junket and originated the 28 Weeks Later QR Code DVD release.

Gia's a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, is helping out with the CERN Podcast, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is "cool".


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