Made It
December 19th, 2007by Jeremy Thomas
I safely arrived in Colorado last night. It’s been 1 year since I’ve been in the US. I immediately noticed how festive the US is around the holidays. Carols were playing in the LA airport and people said “merry christmas” to me. This doesn’t really happen in Australia, where if they said it they’d prefer “happy christmas” instead. It’s also pretty cold in Denver (at least compared with how hot it’s been in Melbourne this past few weeks). And I had my first Chipotle burrito since last December for dinner tonight.
What I’ve noticed immediately is that most blog and twitter updates now happen throughout the day. In Australia it was like reading the newspaper, where when I got to work most of the blog posts and twitter updates from my US counterparts had been completed already, so I’d spend 20 minutes or so catching up on the “news”. Now my reader constantly has updates. I’m not sure which way is better actually.
Anyway, I’m hoping to visit more conferences now that I’m in North America and meet some of my blogging friends in person. I might look into heading to the FASTForward conference this year to get me going.
It’s good to be back.
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December 19th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Welcome to North America! Looking forward to seeing you at a few conferences and perhaps during the day now on Twitter
December 20th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Thanks man!
December 20th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Sounds like heaps of FUN !!! Web/Enterprise 2.0 conferences in the US will be a hit !!!
December 21st, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I wish you all the very best of luck and a MERRY Christmas
It’s still the tropics in Melbourne and some web sights are not working on the Internet. I have heard that the quality of Internet is much better in the US so you must be pleased.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 am
Internet access is definitely more widespread here in the states. Right now, for example, I’m using free WiFi at a condominium complex in Breckenridge! Love it.