San Francisco day #3

Late wake up this morning at 10, since I wanted to try Suppenküche, german cuisine in Hayes Valley, recommended by Lonely Planet. But they only open at 5pm.
So I decided to eat sushi at Domo, 501 laguna street, for 18,62 USD.

Afternoon in SoMA
- Moscone Center
- AT&T Park
- Coco500 , recommended by Lonely Planet, web 2.0 start-up parties. Just on left, 6 people were meeting. 2 young guys were showing their newly application on the iPhone to maybe venture capitalists. On my right, 3 students. I took a salami pizza , not good. For the price spent. The server was French.

Back from KingsOfCode

It’s one week old since I’ve been to Amsterdam for KingsOfCode.  I had one contact (never met in person) on my LinkedIn who organized a side-event. In less than 5 days I planned my trip from Paris to Amsterdam. And I so enjoy it, I  talked with passionnate people. With smaller conference, I can feel mor human atmosphere where you can to talk to speakers directly.

Here are some  pics. Mike Malone (Pownce) and Andy Smith (Jaiku) both were doing a presentation on Django framework.

• - About micro-blogging . What makes Twitter so popular ?
• - If you find that one, please let us know . Mike
• - That’s not because it’s built on top of Ruby on Rails
• - I don’t think people care what’s build n top. Andy

I also chatted with Francisco Tolmasky, former Apple employee.

• - What kind of profile does Steve Jobs has ? Is he a UI designer, software architect, marketing guy …
• - Well he’s the guy who chooses what features to add or remove from the ideas . Without Jobs , Apple wouldn’t be what it is today.

Kingsofcode / chèques-vacances

I learned beginning of this week from one of my LinkedIn contact the existence of KingsOfCode conference in Amsterdam. Hell yeah, I’ve got a bunch a travel tickets ….

J’ai des chèques vacances (350 Euro ) qui vont se périmer en décembre 2009. Chouette je décide de les utiliser pour un voyage a Amsterdam. Avec une queue pas possible a la SNCF de Montparnasse, je sors mon numéro de dossier de réservation. Et la le gars au guichet que non,le Thalys ne prend pas les chèques vacances. EUH les chèques vacances ne sont valables qu’a l’intérieur de la France. A quoi ca sert de voyager alors seulement dans le pays ?

De plus le petit con au guichet me dit qu’ils sont remboursables 100%. OUI mais en pas cash sous forme d’autres billets SNCF. Bande d’arnaqueurs.

Il y a une astuce a ce système :

http://blog.effraie.org/post/Bug-SNCF/cheques-vacances-%3A-workaround?pub=1#pr

1 acheter des billets remboursables en France avec vos chèques-vacances

2 se faire rembourser

3 acheter un billet pour l’étranger avec cette somme. Voila