The demise of the dinner party, now we have dinner then party

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 29 October, 2009 to the trends subset

I used to get along to a few dinner parties when I lived in London, but the notion really went out the window when I came to Sydney. Mind you that might be a local thing as no one sits down for more than half an hour to eat a meal, in the “places to [...]

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I don’t actually work, I play the sharemarket for a living

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 21 May, 2009 to the comment subset

Scott Sternberg lays down the his rules of style, first up, don’t ask obvious questions, they don’t make you look smart:
Opening a conversation with “What do you do?” makes you sound like a shifty, social-climbing dickwad. Small talk is for sissies, but if you’re stuck with it, you can certainly come up with something better [...]

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Web-blast 2008, end the year with a (you guessed it) bang

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 27 November, 2008 to the events subset

Sydney web-blast 2008.
I’m told all 300 tickets went in a mere eight hours for last year’s event, meaning if want to go this year, NOW is the time to do something about it.
Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community – bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects [...]

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Sydney Blog party, Friday 12 September 2008

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 to the events subset

Let’s get networking and socialising.
A drinks gathering for bloggers in Sydney is on in The Arthouse Hotel’s Gallery Bar next Friday, 12 September, from 5pm.
A contraction of the words “blog” and “meet”. The word “Blogmeet” is thought to have come into common usage around 2006, when Homo sapiens sapiens came to the realisation that their [...]

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