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.

Anyway, met some interesting new people, and saw some familiar faces.

• 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.