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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Even as the global information machine mumbles in its sleep and stirs on the verge of awareness, there'll be a pub in Soho where a PR says something off-message to a hack not quite drunk enough to miss it.
[October 27, 2006, 18:40]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Alex and his wife and I were pretty good mates, in those long-lost days, and I vaguely recall the odd informal curry with the ritual beer consumption that often attends such ceremonies after work in Soho.
[November 29, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To Microsoft's plush Soho offices once again, this time to break cookie with John Gray. Tuesday 9/10/2001 This urbane American is the project manager for Windows XP Â- the man who glued together all the bits and made sure they worked.
[October 15, 2001, 19:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To Microsoft's Soho HQ, where yours truly and a selection of other IT hacks are led into a seminar room cunningly disguised as a swimming pool, with tables made of white pebbles embedded in clear resin and thus irresistibly reminiscent of giant...
[October 8, 2001, 15:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To the White Horse pub in Soho, where a gathering of the old IT Week clan is in full effect. Thursday 21/06/2001 Many of the original team behind the magazine have gone their own way, so it was an enormous pleasure to meet up with numerous techno...
[June 22, 2001, 17:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tuesday 26/10/2004We're off to London's glitzy Soho, to a huge art-deco bar with no fewer than nine enormous mirror balls dangling from alcoves in the ceiling. The occasion is Microsoft's launch of Windows Media Center 2005, and the company is...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Much fun in a Soho pub, where a small but dedicated band of boozy hacks has decided to reconvene an old London IT journalist tradition -- the First Thursday drinking session. Thursday 30/10/2004 We have been summoned by the resourceful Lucy...
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Imagine staggering through Soho after an evening's intensive alcohol therapy, weaving your way down to Piccadilly Circus and the welcoming tube home, only to come across the World's Widest Active Billboard.
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An equally nice place is tucked up in a proper Soho boozer with a load of PRs and hacks, gossiping like a bishop and sliding gratefully into my happy place. Thursday 20/4/2005 Actually, I lied. Tonight, Edelman - something of a byword for buttoned...
[April 21, 2006, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The evening ended in a Soho tapas bar to recitations of Blackadder scripts and ineffective protestations of early mornings to come. Thursday 17/8/2006 What a day. For reasons too immensely dull to go into, the afternoon is taken up with a mammoth...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Walking towards the bus stop last night after a pleasant evening sweltering in Soho, I make a detour with half a hope of grabbing a last pint in noted Hanway Place drinking hole, Troy's. The SF crowd came and went, as did other members of the Soho...
[July 28, 2006, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Hard work and no play — a most unusual set of circumstances, best avoided — prevent me from attending the "Pipex Beach Party" that's being thrown this evening on the roof terrace of a hotel in Soho. Wednesday 28/06/2006
[June 30, 2006, 19:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One final piece of useful information came out of the strange and bathyspheric end of the day: some among us had worried that the recent liberalisation of the licensing laws would put an end to their favourite and most inadvisable Soho drinking...
[December 9, 2005, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Collective - a rag-tag grouping of radicals drawn from the gutter class where the agencies don't even have any initials in their names - are holding their first soviet upstairs in a Soho pub Marx would be proud.
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Somewhat more accurately, if you ask the system to find Soho and then locate porn it comes back with a sparse list of ten possibilities, but with VNU Business Publications pleasingly spit-roasted between the Erotic Print Society and the Soho...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog While it's a lively industry anyway and it's rare for a month to go by without at least one journo hopping from Ziff to EMAP to Dennis to VNU to Future, it is undoubtedly true that the revolving door at VNU's Soho headquarters goes around a little...
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News While it's a lively industry anyway and it's rare for a month to go by without at least one journo hopping from Ziff to EMAP to Dennis to VNU to Future, it is undoubtedly true that the revolving door at VNU's Soho headquarters goes around a little...
[November 22, 1997, 7:00]
Marc Ambasna-Jones's Diary
News So after digesting this amusing but slightly lacklustre piece of information, I headed to Soho in central London to sit in a swanky wine bar and meet various industry stalwarts. Suddenly the Internet has been recognised as a respected news medium.
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Evening finds me in Soho and a tour of London's less than buzzing West End pubs with PR friends. To Soho this evening with friends. Tuesday Always good to see UK computer companies doing well so it's great to see Videologic picking up a seemingly...
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News Nice parties in the evening in darkest Soho but the pubs are going downhill. Who knows the truth but it's certainly the case that Digital boss Bob Palmer is one mean hombre and knows the value of a dollar.
[October 11, 1997, 8:00]
