Meeting the Simpsons in London
January 4th, 2007
What a fantastic day! When we heard the Simpsons were coming to London we dropped everything to drive down and spend the day with them. No I dont mean the yellow skinned, eat-my-shorts type Simpsons! I mean Matt Simpson (And his beautiful wife Karla Simpson), Matt is the original developer of ListMessenger, the PHP application that mosListMessenger and Mailing List Manager (Coming soon) is based on and licensed by.
After arriving at gatwick airport 30mins before their flight arrived (without them knowing I was meeting them!) I was greeted by another 1 hour wait as they sat on in the baggage reclaim waiting for their bags - so at 1am we finally met, all of us exhausted from a days travel - off to the hotel…
In the morning we all met up in London’s Victoria station - My wife and Karla, Matt and I and our 3 week old baby !
We spent the day together touring London’s tourist attractions, The Palace, Westminster, London Eye, SoHo, Oxford Street - and the place we all spent money in - the Apple Mac Store!!! (Long story, short version: 240v->110v converters don’t like hairdryers do they Karla?!).
It was finally great to meet such wonderful people have a chance to specd some quality time chilling out (we hardly spoke about work - much to the delight of the wifes!) but we did manage to agree a future for the continued development of mosListMessenger for Joomla 1.0.12 and a new product forked from ListMessengers next version to be called Mailing List Manager for Joomla 1.5 (When 1.5 is released!)
Matt, Karla, Many thanks for such a wonderful day - safe journey home (You are in a plane above the Atlantic right now!) - Matt and I have worked together for many years now, having never spoken on the phone, or met - the internet is a great place!
