Simon Collison Dragged into more Discussions He Couldn’t Care Less About

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He of the fancy name – Paul Robert Lloyd (who also lives near the inexplicably hilariously named Climping, in England) chose to take the opportunity today to moan about web conferences. He specifically mentioned the good work Simon Collison is doing running affordable one-day conferences in Nottingham, England. His complaints – that the same speakers seem to be appearing at each of the conferences world-wide – seems to completely disregard the fact that they continue to be booked because they are popular, speak well, and are generally qualified as speakers overall.

Being unable to choose between any of the three Christian names he has had since birth, Lloyd has grown up a bitter and twisted individual. Moaning about the cost of the iPad and taking that opportunity to donate to charity, Lloyd made absolutely certain that we all *knew* he was donating to charity. Whether or not this undid the selflessness of the selfless act was neatly glossed over.

In another post by Brendan Dawes, Dawes whined about designers being nice to each other. His self-indulgent rant also managed somehow to portray poor Collison in a negative light, since other people apparently liked his website. A schoolboy error, Simon.

Simon Collison was unavailable to comment, since he was busy demonstrating the best use for his iPad – namely beating Lloyd about the head with it whilst it announced “bitch” with each multi-touch strike. Also, he said bad things about your mum.