Ignite

Yesterday was Ignite Charlotte. The idea of Ignite is "enlighten us but make it quick". MailVU was a sponsor; we also had a demo booth.

Got there at 3:30 to help set up. Hung out a bit until people started arriving and I persuaded them into the demo booth.

Met some (mainly Twitter) friends there. which was majorly cool, and made some new friends.

The past few days we've had a major client, Paul, in the office (because our current office is so small I was 'banished' to working at home). He's British but works in South Korea.

He came to Ignite also, then we went to a Cajun restaurant afterwards and had Hurricanes (I stuck with Category 1). He has a real breadth of knowledge- American politics, British politics, education, sports.

Thing he said that struck me the most: the London sewer systems were built 150 years ago, and the engineer planned for this population growth. My immediate thought: Helen Magnus totally did that!