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Next Saturday, Belgium

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kicks off the first game of Euro 2000 in Brussels. I’m not a huge football (aka soccer) fan but I love the big tournaments. And Montreal is a particularly great place to be a soccer fan – it really comes alive during a big event. My neighbourhood (le Plateau Mont-Royal) is a mix of artists and students – but also of tons of first-generation Canadians, just here from Portugal, South and Central America, and little Italy is just up the way a mile or so. During the last World Cup if you had walked down boul. St-Laurent, you would have noticed that every business had a TV in it – barbershops, hair salons, cafs, bars, restos – and they were all tuned to a game.

My friend Roel splits his time between here and Amsterdam and tells me that Holland is particularly dangerous this year.

I like Heather’s idea too…

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Heather made a proposal that makes a lot of sense. A Sundance for the web. Brig agreed. Think about this: a nice space to meet and work (lightly), an on-the-spot friendly contest (like the 5K, but in place), the year’s work, new ideas, new connections, new excitement… I can talk about it – you all are the ones who could make it happen. The trick is to start small enough that a core of completely committed people can kick it off with little fanfare, but still sustain an interesting moment to build on.

So there I was

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at my corpo-rave tonight and Stefan Brand, who owns pretty well every key patent in digi-cash and micropayments, comes up to me (being introduced by my friend Tracey who puts together the Freedom site), and I’m stuttering, “uh, yeah, hey… I’ve been following crypto shit for ages and wow – you did all the work on stuff we still haven’t figured out how to get working. cool – nice to meet you!” I’ve had dinner and/or drinks with stars of stage, screen, and recording studio… But writer-biz-producer-web-boy was awed by a total geek star.

Things I like today:

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