Went off to the geek dinner on Tuesday night with 200 or so other people and had a great time. It was held just of Trafalgar Square at a Tex-Mex venue, and I get the feeling the poor people downstairs didn't really know what had hit them.

• As ever, good to meet Lloyd again, though he has ruined my modelling career
• Thanks to Euan for pointing out that my name badge was one upside down, saved me looking as halfwitted as I am!
• 3 cheers for Nick Swan and the most humble and apologetic elevator pitch I've heard - and do have a look at Connect Via Books, it's a great idea
• Philip Baddeley I suspect I'll be seeing a lot more of re wiki/blog conferences in Cambridge
• Gi Fernando was good company, and knew why green hair isn't an indicator of idiocy. Will definitely be braving Shoreditch on a Friday soon to talk more about business process and IT, and see why he really is a fashion leader ;)
• Mark Woodman knew whose round it was - and we had an interesting but too short chat about brittle ontologies and context. Talk to you when you're back from Ireland, Mark!
• Jason Bates had some fascinating takes on psychology and the organisation - I loved his thought that social software seemed to be patching up the organisational cracks :) - and he's got an equally interesting new blog, so have a look at that ...

And then there were lots of people I clocked but didn't have time to go and chat to, as is the way with these things. Hopefully next time!;)

I did, though, at the end of the evening, get a curious insight into what life might be like being Robert Scoble. Some bloke came up, sloshed, and said to me "this is just shuch an honour ... you don't know what this means to me ... just to be here ... shtanding next to you ... in this ... where are we? oh shit, I don't even know where the fuck I am .. but Robert ... I can call you Robert can't I? ... Mishter Shcobleizer ... you're like a god to me".

Made me laugh. a) I don't even look like Scoble and b) I wasn't up there with a microphone saying interesting things. But hey, there was a bar, there was good food, and there was company - can't blame him for overindulging :)

Anyway, very many thanks to Hugh Macleod for organising it all. It was great fun.