The Great Geek Off

It has been a busy week. On Tuesday I be-dreaded the Mistress who decided that she finally had enough of her red dreadlocks. We took some pictures as I chipped into it, and because I cut on the diagonal, her new choppy crop looks really good. I often colour our crew's hair, but it's the first time I have done a haircut in years.

I gave a three hour lecture on Wednesday morning to the film & TV students at Unitec on emerging technologies and their social implications. For the lecture I used a mindmap with links and it was interesting to hear their perspectives on what I talked about and how it affected their future careers.

After the lecture I headed back to the studios to pick up Chelfyn, and then into town for the Virtual World show on Radio New Zealand, National. Even though I was tired it was a fun show but the day still wasn't quite over.When I got back to the studios I still had to write and file my column for the Big Idea on Crowdfunding.

On Thursday morning I knocked up a presentation on 'Be Your Own Broadcaster' for the Great Orcon Blend in Auckland. I went to Toto to meet organisers Nat Torkington & Russell Brown for dinner along with the other contestants in the Great Geek Off which was the follow the Ignite presentations.

I attempted to stick to my strategy of one glass of wine before presenting as I was the first person on, but I immediately blew that plan and blame it entirely on Russell Brown. I kicked off the Ignite sessions with a 5 minute presentation on 'Be Your Own Broadcaster', talking about how we hacked together the g33k show last year, and how we are now using P2P & VJ tools to re-boot Twisted into a radio & video streaming station.

I managed to get a few laughs and finish in my allotted 5 minutes, then enjoyed listening to the other Ignite speakers. After a break it was time for the Geek Off between Team XX & XY. My LOLcat won the captions round, and I correctly identified a closeup image of Dr Manhattan's blue genitalia.

I couldn't remember T'Pol from Star Trek Enterprise full name but pointed out her hotness as an excuse and did remember the T & apostrophe bit. By the end of the Great Geek Off both teams tied equally at 320 points each, proving that boys and girls are equally geeky - just with different bits.