• Stupid jet lag. Gunma make today interesting. Cricket vs hendred, at hendred. Spectators? #
• New York Taxi http://tinyurl.com/5lhjjn #
• First win of the season.. Wicket, catch, winning runs. Not a bad day’s work #

• Welcome back to the UK me. knackered, but kinda wanna go on the beers tonight. #
• I havent had a twitter text for a week… is the service down in the UK? #

• Been up empire state, amazing! Literally breath taking. Now back to work though! Gunna be a long night, should of bought G&T #

• weird situation.sat in hotel bar, woman on left just threw her blackberry on the floor. on the right, 50yr old man hittin on a 20yr old lass #
• he just used the line "i saw the buildings collapse, i was meant 2b on a plane @ the time, i cant fly now" u can guess what hes talkin about #
• New York Life http://tinyurl.com/57p69s #
• Thats obvious @Whatleydude, 360 + burnout is as good as takin driving lessons. if u took real driving lessons u would not learn 360 skills #
• @missdd *shrug* we’ll see #
• @Whatleydude Nope, we do have a Wii, Gamecube and N64. But they are for lunch times 😀 #
• Temp finished for the day, lots more to do later, time for dinner with the cookie monster and the empire state! #

This time I am not going to talk about the practicality of being in New York, hopefully you all read my past summary of being in New York for a few days. Instead I want to pick briefly on a few specifics I have come across today. Infact, at the time of typing this the list is 4 things.

1) Slate Bar barman: what a nice chap. I had to wait around to talk to their boss, so went for a pint at the bar. Within a few minutes of sitting there, at an empty bar on my tod the chap came over and asked where in England I was from. We started chatting about the cliche English things, London, Oxford university, Radiohead etc. My favourite bit was when he said it was now happy hour and the Stella was now only $4. We talked tourist stuff, he recommended a Mexican place for me to go for lunch/dinner just around the corner and also wrote down a cool bar to go to. The Mexican was awesome (Chipotle), the bar, hopefully see it tomorrow night. I left, hopefully the guy will be working on Thurs too.

2) After returning to the hotel I fancied some dinner, so popped down to the bar. A quick glance at my laptop clock shows me it is 2.30am my time and after only getting an hours kip before the flight I kinda think I’m doing ok. In the bar I order myself a G & T and sit back and enjoy, a bit of Jaiku and Twitter and emails. Wings, I want WINGS, so I order Wings, out of stock, as are the chips and wedges. Hmmmm only other thing on the menu I can face is the Pizza. It shows up, by Pizza they mean cheese on burnt toast, rip off!

3) Sitting in bar waiting for food there is a very weird situation building next to me. A 50 yr old chap has met with a mid 20s girl. They start talking fashion, clearly its a business meeting. Nothing too weird, other than the age difference. The bloke’s fashion business is basically to buy shit clothes and modify them, add frills and embroidery. Fruit of the Loom? However, see this Tweet and the situation gets a lot more interesting. The latest thing to happen is that the girl had ordered a diet coke, she has just walked out without taking a single sip. Blokey is still sitting here nursing his finished whiskey. Just heard him on the phone say “I just wanted to touch base with you” and “you’ll know me when you see me” also “we’ll have a good time” I think this guy is some sort of throw back and someone needs to tell him to leave it!… hero!

4) Couple at the bar selected fish and chips from the menu. It has just arrived… the English will know what I mean by a Sundae, it looks like that, but its the newspaper that its served in thats shaped in that way. Genius. How stereotypical!

5) I didn’t want to go this far, but a new amazing one just walked in… two cute girls sitting next to me, bloke walks in and gets introduced to one of them. Clearly this is some sort of setup for the other. The guy basically seems like a social recluse, not comfortable in anyway etc. His first story involved a high school prank, bad start. Now talking work and how they have a car showroom at the bottom of their office block. Ladies, is that sexy? He better not get lucky!

• 3am phone calls from abroad, ideal. Good thing i’m still awake anyway. Worried, leaving for airport in 3 hrs, no sleep yet. #
• Hours kip, lets see how driving to london goes. Nervous #
• Yay 20 miles of traffic running up to heathrow. Only busy between junction 10 and 1. Luckily, i just passed j10. Bugger #
• I Spy.., http://tinyurl.com/56695h #
• Boo this hotel room sucks… i want the one i had last time again 🙁 this is worse than horsy’s was #
• Which New Yorker (who isnt a rapist/murderer) wants to go for drinks tonight? #
• Feels special as he has been on the same plane as 50 cent #
• In ny venue, drinking stella, talking to locals. Its happy hour baby! #
• @whatleydude shorts defo. I’ll wear mine around tomorrow if you do? #
• @whatleydude shorts defo. I’ll wear mine around tomorrow if you do? #
• @sylwiapresley better better be for gallery. Dont leave us! #
• oh good, i’m multi tweeting and multi wording. M.twitter.com not working out great #
• ok bored of waiting for the boss. He’s been standing next to me in a meeting for two hours. I’ll come back tomorrow #

• Bank holiday = lie in / ly in (brain not working yet) #
• @ribot whats brighton weather like today? is it worth visiting brightonland for beer on the beach? #
• Xobni Beta http://tinyurl.com/6c593d #
• The proud owner of gta4. Love you sainsbury #
• Shattered from football. Good fun playing with random guys. Good result too #

First social media style update for a while, and this one is a little let obviously social media related. However, the email improving add-on for outlook “Xobni” has just gone from invite only beta to open beta.

Have been using this for around a month now, after being invited by a certain Mr Brewski. It’s a really nifty little bit of kit, aslong as its not crashing outlook. Which does seem to happen, hopefully future updates etc will make it a lot more stable. It gives you a sidebar list of everything you need relating to the person who sent you the email you are viewing, the most useful personally is the list of shared files.

Information stolen from Mashable, read it here.