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wow, just wow.
so it seems that my little blog and my simple actions blogging about poverty didn't go unnoticed. that's right, the lovely people from over at World Vision's Learn about Poverty blog action day thought that my post was quite good.
good enough to be the winner of the competition!!!! which has made me pretty much the happiest man on the planet.. almost as happy as Obama will be in November.. right??!? right??!?
shameless politics aside, its time to get excited about the prize.
first will be the chance to get my mischievous little hands on the micro$oft surface machine, a pretty neat touch sensitive table thingy that no doubt the amnesia kids have hacked to do strange and amazing things. meeting the guys from amnesia / razorfish will be a privilege in itself actually.. they're the guys behind the technology that made the learn about poverty blog action day happen. so that'll be pretty neat meeting them.
then its off to speak with the yahoo!7 guys about Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short.. which i know will be uber interesting from a nerd point of view, because i have an idea of what search engines want in my mind.. but the reality is bound to be quite different. so i'm hoping to learn some new tricks i'll share with you all.
finally, to cap off an amazing day (if my brain hasn't exploded yet) i'm going to be taken around Google's Sydney office.. the googleplex of the southern hemisphere. here my one aim will be to 'go to the bathroom' and accidentally get "lost".. never to return again. so if you don't read any more posts for a while, my mission was a success, so please don't go asking around for me.. i'll be happily segwaying my way around from concept meeting to concept meeting, trying to convince the google kids to take their wonderful software tech and implant it into environmentally giggly real life hardware like bus shelters, post boxes, lamp posts & electrical boxes, so all those grey mundane things can educate us about just how fun sustainability can be. or something.
hmmm.. may have got a little lost in the last paragraph there.. guess that's the consequence of trying to write a blog half an hour before the bust to the airport leaves while my brain is feverishly trying to come to terms with the fact it will soon be playing with much bigger and harder throbbing brains.
anyway, back to the point simon, to the point.
if you want updates on my little adventures, point your mouse to any of the following. I'll try and get as many useful updates on each when and where possible:
http://twitter.com/sighmon (little 160 character updates)
http://qik.com/sighmon (live video stream if they let me use their wifi)
http://vimeo.com/sighmon (videos up here later if they don't)
so, take care of little adelaide while i'm gone, and see you back here soon.
s.
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