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@leelowe, @mairinmurry, @martharotter, @kievia, Christian @silverspoon, myself and one brave male all had good food but much better craic in Madisons. There was twittering, installation and testing of gravity, brainstorming and discussions about networking. A twitter pilgrimage was planned and a red car may or may not have been hijacked.

Girl Geek Dinners are great fun - but it's a fast pace. The pace at the ACE unConference in Derry last week was slower (a good thing for me - I couldn't last three days at a Girl Geek pace). I had some interesting chats there with folk like:

- Paul McLaughlin of Lionhead games
- Ian Hughes (aka epredator) - a metaverse evangelist
- Darryl Charles, a lecturer from University of Ulster with a passion for serious gaming
- John Farren, creative director of 360 productions, an independent production company who are doing some interesting interactive experiments
- Aidan O'Duibhir, director of Grrr Charge Games
- David Wortley, Director of the Serious Games Institute

I got to pitch to a panel of American and Irish financial and business experts, who gave me some great business advice during the formal pitching session and lots more advice in the informal sessions afterwards in Peader O'Donnell's bar.

I've had a stretch of meeting interesting people and talking about new ideas in the last week or so - it's fantastic. My head is bubbling with new blog post ideas after months of feeling like my brain was a dried up pea rolling around in dust. Yay :)