Getting Maggie ready for bed the other day in Cambridge, she just started cracking up.
Not the last time she’ll be laughing “at” her father methinks! Let’s hope there’s a good measure of “with” smattered in with all those priceless giggles over years to come!
As we set off for our trip to Victoria BC on the Clipper, I ran upstairs on deck and took these dramatic photos of the Seattle skyline.
Quite by chance, I managed to get the entire vista just as the sun was peeking over the top of the buildings with my Panasonic Lumix G2 camera.
I also whipped out my Windows Phone and snapped the above…
….using the fab Apict App to create the above.
So many people who don’t live here seem to think Seattle is a dreary, rainy city. These photos show it’s not!
Another highlight on our trip to Victoria was dinner at steak and seafood restaurant, Nautical Nellies.
We started our meal with crab cakes the Ashley described as, “The best I’ve ever had!”
As you can see, Maggie was in awe at the sight of her first cup of tea.
As part of a birthday trip (mine not hers) to Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, Ashley suggested we go for afternoon tea at The Fairmont Empress Hotel.
I first met MaryLee Sachs in 2009, when she brought Twitter’s Biz Stone to the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.
Working for PR giant Hill and Knowlton at the time, her team kindly let me chat to Biz about Twitter’s dizzy rise to success (worth a retrospective look at now given their current ubiquity), and then I got a few minutes with MaryLee to get her thoughts on PR and social media, and how public relations was being seen more and more part of the marketing mix.
Fast-forward two years and MaryLee is back in Cannes launching her new book The Changing MO of the CMO which seeks to explain how, “the convergence of brand and reputation is disrupting the marketing function.”
So we got the final contracts through for the book I’m writing – Pioneers of Digital – with Paul Springer.
It just happened to be my 40th birthday when I signed next to my name, so Ashley helped capture the moment on video with the wriggly help of little Maggie.
Posterity aside, now the actual work begins. We have a deadline of 29th of February to deliver the tome.
Anyone know any good online touch-typing courses? 
P.S. Follow Pioneers of Digital on Twitter.
Now I should warn you that I’ve just embarked on two months of paternity leave, so there’ll be a few less technology posts going live between now and Christmas.
In case you were wondering what the future looks like……..
“But where’s my UK passport daddy?”
We’re off to London to see The Queen in a couple of weeks (oh and to see some family and friends too!)
The US passport process was very easy and now Maggie has her own. Ashley said getting her to lie still for the photo was a fun experience (!)
Now for the British one……
OK, you know I work for the company, but that doesn’t mean I’m always rah-rah, especially given my under-stated Britishness. 
But Ashley, Maggie and I made a lunchtime trip down to Seattle’s University Village shopping mall to take a look at the new store that opened yesterday.
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