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Worldcon....
Jul. 22nd, 2011 08:25 am The worldcon is rushing upon us and I realize I've not really prepared properly. This became clear this week as a bunch of stuff happened at once.
Firstly, we're behind on the soon to be released and much anticipated Worldcon mobile app - not to put too fine a point on it - it rocks. We're hoping it'll be out for iPhone, Android and Blackberry - although much depends on Apple at this stage. We do have a fall back position that the app will run as a webapp in the browser and thus bypass the App Store entirely.
Anyway, the goal is to have the dev and test complete by Saturday and the submission made to Apple and the app to be put in the Android store.
Secondly, I got the 2 week warning on Hugo voting. I've read the shorts and novelettes... Mormons talking to space whales? Heh. NO! There's some stuff in there I liked so I might announce my voting preferences later... I've started through the novels and, sad to say, nothing is appealing yet. The reviews of the Connie Wills books suggests that I won't get too far into them. I've never really been a Lois McMaster Bujold fan, so the first couple of chapters there proved hard going. I need to take a better run at The Dervish House but that looks good. Weirdly I'm also really liking Feed.
Thirdly, I just got my schedule which has me quite busy with 5 panels. I'll post my full schedule closer to the time, I'm also moderating a couple of items, the least convenient of which is at 16:00 on the Wednesday (more on that in a moment). Anyway, it generally looks good and I'll get emails off later to my co-participants on the ones I'm moderating so we can make a plan.
Finally... logistics. In addition to the program items I'm also helping out with the London 2014 bid parties, which should involve copious amounts of Walker's Crisps and Pimms... To support this and because it'll be cool, we decided sometime ago that we'd drive. Plan A was to do a long day on Wednesday and arrive in the evening. However, as I need to be on a Panel at 16:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday we now need to leave on Tuesday night and stop somewhere around midnight and then put in another 8 hours drive on Wednesday. It's going to be entertaining...
Anyway, I will be able to clearly say that it will be Pimm's O'Clock at the British Party... now... where can I find a Tweed jacket?
Firstly, we're behind on the soon to be released and much anticipated Worldcon mobile app - not to put too fine a point on it - it rocks. We're hoping it'll be out for iPhone, Android and Blackberry - although much depends on Apple at this stage. We do have a fall back position that the app will run as a webapp in the browser and thus bypass the App Store entirely.
Anyway, the goal is to have the dev and test complete by Saturday and the submission made to Apple and the app to be put in the Android store.
Secondly, I got the 2 week warning on Hugo voting. I've read the shorts and novelettes... Mormons talking to space whales? Heh. NO! There's some stuff in there I liked so I might announce my voting preferences later... I've started through the novels and, sad to say, nothing is appealing yet. The reviews of the Connie Wills books suggests that I won't get too far into them. I've never really been a Lois McMaster Bujold fan, so the first couple of chapters there proved hard going. I need to take a better run at The Dervish House but that looks good. Weirdly I'm also really liking Feed.
Thirdly, I just got my schedule which has me quite busy with 5 panels. I'll post my full schedule closer to the time, I'm also moderating a couple of items, the least convenient of which is at 16:00 on the Wednesday (more on that in a moment). Anyway, it generally looks good and I'll get emails off later to my co-participants on the ones I'm moderating so we can make a plan.
Finally... logistics. In addition to the program items I'm also helping out with the London 2014 bid parties, which should involve copious amounts of Walker's Crisps and Pimms... To support this and because it'll be cool, we decided sometime ago that we'd drive. Plan A was to do a long day on Wednesday and arrive in the evening. However, as I need to be on a Panel at 16:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday we now need to leave on Tuesday night and stop somewhere around midnight and then put in another 8 hours drive on Wednesday. It's going to be entertaining...
Anyway, I will be able to clearly say that it will be Pimm's O'Clock at the British Party... now... where can I find a Tweed jacket?
