On a Friday afternoon, I added the coordinates for Redemption Cafe to my GPS device and jumped in the Frog Van to navigate my way to the Summer Geek Dinner in Hout Bay. (sidenote: next time please provide GPS coordinates in GPX format so I can upload with gpsbable)
I was a bit late, so I missed some of Graham’s talk on how Stormhoek is taking the wine world by storm, blog by blog. Redemtion Cafe is a pretty cool place. All-round good food.. did I mention there was Stormhoek wine to taste? I tasted the Pinotage and Shiraz and I liked it.
The waiter’s service was excellent. Just the right mix of friendly efficiency. If only we could bottle him and install his good service in other Cape Town restaurants..
(sidenote2: www.stormhoek.co.za seems to point to the wrong place, maybe you guys need a better ISP, I can think of a few (-; )
Enough about the food and background details. If you missed it you already feel bad enough right? hehehe.
The evening’s general vibe created a bit of a Deja Vu feeling. It reminded me of the optimistic times around 2000. A wine induced reality distortion field (aka bubble) was created just long enough for this to feel like the new cape town mini dot com community. I guess that’s what you get when you mix a few smart, visionary, idealist, passionate people with good wine.
With all this goodness in the air we still could not inspire Naulene about “the blogging thing”. Oh, well.. it took me a long time to take the trend seriously.
I’m still new to “the blogging thing” but it seems there are some patterns, I’ve encountered the following general groups, the Me bloggers (mostly diaries and vanity), the Media bloggers (all about the new marketing trends), the Mommy bloggers and the Tech bloggers.
Henk gave a very well prepared presentation advising entrepreneurs to “wing it”.. I think there’s a little bit of comedy in that (-:
Note to self: drink less wine, try to make sense until the end of the evening, it is a Geek dinner after all.
Mia seems to have enjoyed the evening, she can’t speak yet, but she lets us know by clapping her hands. It’s her new party trick.
Thanks to Max and Dave for organising the event. Looking forward to the next one.
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