E I E I O

Strange thing happened on the way to the multiplex..so I get up this morning and check out my local Newham Showcase site and it says the Goddard film Alphaville is playing. When I get to the place the guy on the desk says no way. And I laugh ’cause it seemed pretty ‘leftfield’ for them. But it’s still on the site. Anyhow saw ‘Fracture’ instead which had some fun lines in it..

For example the line about the posh lawyers all having middle names taken from their mother’s maiden names, and who played squash. Actually my middle name is my father’s mother’s maiden name so that makes me uber posh. And I don’t squash (anymore) I gym baby. In fact last time I was down the gym some kid in the park started singing ‘Old MacDonald Had A Farm’ at me, which was unusual (E I E I O).

Alphaville, une

Social networks

Up in Edinburgh talking about the value of social networks. Reminds me about how Google hooked up with Youtube MySpace, sending an instinctive with guy who was hanging out there with them, and then reported back that it was worth a go!

“The MySpace deal reveals the Google leadership triumvirate’s visceral style. The transaction might never have happened, says Schmidt, if Brin hadn’t flown to meet with News Corp. executives in Pebble Beach, Calif., where Rupert Murdoch was hosting an A-list bull session on global issues. (Schmidt was vacationing in Europe; Page was in India.) “We sent Sergey because he’s very intuitive,” says Schmidt. “He goes down there and sort of hangs with them for a while and comes back and says, ‘You know, I’m really sure we should do this.’ And it’s not a numbers argument. It’s a feeling of commitment.””

PS: I’m sure they checked the numbers.