Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

Dammit, too many good shows coming up in september. Haven’t been out to a show in months and now this, plus film festival, plus more work than ever this month. What is a man to do? I want to see all of these! and you should to!

Date

1-Sep-06

1-Sep-06

11-Sep-06

12-Sep-06

13-Sep-06

16-Sep-06

19-Sep-06

22-Sep-06

22-Sep-06

28-Sep-06

28-Sep-06

29-Sep-06

Show	Venue	Price
A SILVER MT. ZION	CLINTONS	SOLD OUT
ELLEN ALLIEN	MOD CLUB	$15.00
M. WARD	MOD CLUB	$16.50
EMILY HAINES (11:00 pm)	GLADSTONE	$20.00
SERENA MANEESH	LEE’S	$10.00
MATES OF STATE	LEE’S	$13.50
MOUNTAIN GOATS	LEE’S	$15.00
CONTROLLER.CONTROLLER	HORSESHOE	$12.50
HOLY FUCK / SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT	MOD CLUB	$17.50
THE ISLANDS	OPERA HOUSE	$13.00
MEMPHIS	LEE’S	$12.00
TOKYO POLICE CLUB	SNEAKY DEES	$10.00

(Listings via and tickets purchasable at RotateThis. shows in bold represent the ones you really really can’t miss. sigh.)

In other music news, this is an absolutely incredible season for new tunes. My fall podcast is coming together and the tracks are so good it’s absolutely shivering, it may explode. I’m trying to wait off to give a chance to discover even more new bands but I don’t know how much longer I can hold it. In the meantime gentle reader, I urge you to try best you can to contain yourselves, perhaps slack your bursting anticipation with a relisten of:

Best of Summer06 music podcast
Best of Spring06 music podcast

and (psst) here’s a secret bootleg rss feed of rotatethis new concert announcements I hacked together for you lazy I mean cunning hipsters here: http://feed43.com/3155512644830768.xml

See you at the show.

Hey, d’you know about the party after the show? – Yeah. -Aw man, it’s gonna be the best, I’m so stoked! …Did you hear about the party? Yeah…. I think I’m gonna go but, um, my friends don’t really wanna go…

Just pre-registered for Office2.0 the conference (yes a new name for Eneterprise 2.0 … Office 2.0, I’ve also heared web 2.5, web 3.0 meaning the same thing. as valleywag says god help us). Anyway I’m excited for this conference, a good price $395 (last day for this price btw! if you’re even thinking of maybe going put your name down they won’t bill you yet but as of tommorrow the price goes up to $595)

In other news, rumours of major airline sales seem to be confirmed. US airways has flights from Toronto to SF for only $320 USD (!) in october. And direct flights AirCanada can be had for $460. These are great deals. In an earlier life some years ago I used to do this flight with some regularity and got used to paying 650-750CDN as often the best economy class deal one could ever find.

Speaking of, this should be fun, heading off straight to the belly of the beast, buble central for web2.0. I still remember those last great frothy days of bubble1.0 1999-2000 in San Fran… I’ll be back to compare notes.

Lastly, it would be egregious of me to plug the Office2.0 con without also mentioning another home-grown conference that’s coming up: CanUX. If you prefer your conferences in a setting a little more, ahem, civilized than the valley you should look to join Dave, Bryce and the gang for the Canadian User Experience workshop conference. It’s in gorgeous Banff, it looks like it will be a blast, it’s also a pretty great bargain. link

Google web apps go for the office

Google has (finally) announced that they are weighing in to a portion of the Enterprise2.0 space with, surprise, an office suite featuring gmail, gcalendar, google spreadsheets. The google spreadsheet and writely applications are pretty cool but are they powerful enough to dethrone the mighty MS Office? Myself, I’m split. Love and use the gmail/calendar combination but, though they are (honestly!) really cool in their own way writely and google sheets still don’t do everything I need excel and word to do for me. Link

Core 2 availability in portables imminent
Word is that the mobile version of Intels Core2 chip (code-named Merom – review) finally hits the streets today. And if, like me, (and every goddamn tech hipster before the last two of us) you’ve been planning to go mac book pro style, promise me, just hold your breath.. a little… bit… longer…
link

ps I bet I could get an intel mac able to boot vista when the day comes. ha ha, but why? i can already hear the faithful lament, but why?…