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Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch–Hanging out with the cream of Victoria’s tech community

by Tris Hussey on April 10th, 2008

By luck and happenstance (love that word) I was able to go to the Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch yesterday.  Great time hanging out with techies for a while and talking tech.

The lunch is organized by Rian Bowden of DailySplice.  Rian said it started small and informal and is now growing every month.  There were 24 folks there yesterday.  Which means if a truck drove into that corner of the Old Spaghetti Factory, Victoria’s tech sector would be pretty much wiped out in one fell swoop!

I say that it’s luck that I went because I happened to decide that yesterday would be the day I visited Flock North and hang out with Joshua McKenty and Mark Lise.  Turns out Rian had been sending emails to an address I can’t get to anymore (my old One By One Media one, so please update your addressbooks to my gmail or b5media address) so Joshua said are you going to the entrepreneur’s lunch and I said “ahroo?”.

Rian is going to have them about once a month email him at rian [at] dailysplice [dot] com to get on the list for when the next one.

Speaking of Rian I need to try DailySplice now that it’s out in the wild.  He told me about it under NDA a while ago (blognation days), now I need to try it and blog it.

Another outcome of visiting Flock was, well, trying Flock again.  My only stumbling block was the blog this extension for Windows Live Writer … but with some help from Joe Cheng I got it figured out and it’s working!

Since I liked Flock before and I found it faster than Firefox, I’m using Flock now.  I think I’m going to like it.  Not to mention I’m using a “local” piece of software!

The rest of my pictures from the lunch are in my Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch Flickr set.

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