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I’m sitting at the same table as Jon Gericke, my ex-compatriot from SAfm. I used to be on his Computer Gig before they reshuffled budgets and got rid of people such as me. Sitting next to him is Laura, hotter than a soldering iron, and potentially single.<\/p>\n
She says, “Hmmm. There aren’t that many good looking bloggers.”<\/p>\n
“Am I good looking?” I say.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” she says, and I almost believe her.<\/p>\n
“I’m single,” I say.<\/p>\n
She laughs.<\/p>\n
Everyone is speaking geek here. I ask the table if they know how to speed up my 3G connection. (I’ve just bought a 3G wireless card, which claims to be broadband, but seems to limp a little. But I don’t really care too much about the speed. What I’m most happy about is that I get connectivity wherever there’s cellular coverage. Either via 3G — fast, or GPRS — slower, but still faster than a dialup modem.) <\/p>\n
A cute looking blonde chap with an American accent and exceedingly long hair whips out a top-of-the-range tablet pc, and zaps a file to my phone via bluetooth. “Run that on your notebook with these settings, and you should notice a difference.”<\/p>\n
“Do you have drawing software on that?” I ask.<\/p>\n
He does. Alias Sketchbook Pro. He fires it up, and lets me have a go. This is EXACTLY what I need. It’s like my palmtop sketching software, but seriously high resolution, and hugely muscled.<\/p>\n
Even if Laura doesn’t want to have baby-making practice with me, the discovery of this software will have made the whole evening a resounding success.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I’m not up for any awards, cos I didn’t know about them, so I didn’t canvass my loyal readers to vote for me. Do expect solicitations next year. I want to win in the “Best Perversion Blog” category.<\/p>\n
The bloggers here are multi-faceted. They are Chump-Style<\/a>, Splattermail<\/a>, Armand<\/a>, Thea<\/a>, Jeanpant<\/a>, Gabbahead<\/a>, Mzansiaafrika<\/a>, Commentary.co.za<\/a>, dragotaur.com<\/a>, Aquila<\/a>, Splattermail<\/a> and Jo’Blog<\/a>. And guess what? Some of them are winners<\/a>! <\/p>\n I end the evening chatting about writing to Nichola, one of the blogger’s girlfriends. She’s feeling a tad excluded, cos all the geeks are now talking about American politics and gay rights and conspiracy theories. <\/p>\n And they’re all thinking about blogging about blogging about blogging awards.<\/p>\n I’m not. I’m thinking of Laura.<\/p>\n