Visiting 10 Downing (powered by WordPress) with some Web Summit folks and got a few pictures in the entry room. We spoke with Tim Luke, one of the Number 10 policy members focused on business and enterprise. I asked how the UK government thought about cyber security, and he actually thought about it as a growth area because they have a lot of security expertise. Afterward went to East London to visit with the Memrise team at their super-cool office.
Had a cool opportunity to walk up the cable to the top of the the first tower of the Bay Bridge today with folks from the Bay Lights project. You walk right up the cable/pipe to the top, it actually wasn’t that hard. Once on top the vistas were amazing. I tried to grab some photos of the hardware behind the lights at the top of the cables. The top of the tower is 526 feet high, and 280,000 cars drive on the bridge every day, making it the second busiest bridge in the world.
Got to watch the start of the America’s Cup race in San Francisco from a boat, sometimes very up close to the action.
A few snaps from a day at the grand Automattic meetup in San Diego.
A wrap party for Automatticians after the WCSF dev day. Photos by Sheri Bigelow.
Hack Day at WordCamp San Francisco went really well. Developers from around the globe met up to work on WordPress. Photos by Sheri Bigelow.
Photos from WordCamp San Francisco 2012 taken by Sheri Bigelow and Kevin Conboy.
This was actually the second night of the reunion, starting at the Archway Gallery, moving to Khon’s, then ending at Whataburger. Was great catching up with so many talented old friends.
Some biking around Eygalières and dinner in Aix-en-Provence.
The flight to Marsailles, and touring around that area, finally heading to Eygalières.
The Janitorial team at Automattic spent a week in Seaside, Florida working on projects together, here’s one night we went out for dinner.
Checking out the Donald Glover / Childish Gambino concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland and hanging out afterward.
I got a chance to visit the Intellectual Ventures food lab, the lab behind the amazing Modernist Cuisine cookbooks that I’ve written about before. Lots of crazy lab equipment.
While visiting some friends in Utah we decided on a bit of a whim to go skydiving, which ended up being an amazing experience. I can’t wait to go again. I paid the extra for the photographer, so here are the photos and videos they took.
Saw charity: water’s new drilling rig, was shown some local houses, visiting Gereb Eshiibela where a well had been built, then a drive and portraits in a beautiful valley, and dinner at Geza-Gebreselassie.
