Let’s have a blogger’s dinner in Berkeley on Thursday, January 26, 7PM.
We got the place, Taste of the Himalayas, 1700 Shattuck Ave.
It’s a big restaurant and probably can accomodate up to 20 to 25 people, we can have a loud conversation or two. I’ve eaten there many times, the food is good and not too expensive. Nepalese food is a lot like Indian. Lots of curries, sauces, some spicy stuff, rice.
Anyone can come, no RSVP required although it would be appreciated. Include a bit about yourself in a comment here.
Maybe we’ll make this a semi-regular thing?
Let’s have fun!
PS: It’s five easy blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
PPS: When you arrive say you’re with the “Blogger” party. 
January 18, 2006 at 8:31 am
How Nepal-Berkeley can you be? It’s about time we had a regular high tech dinner in the East Bay for all those budding entrepreneurs hiding in the hills and the uncovered creeks.
January 18, 2006 at 8:32 am
I’m starting a new job, so with that caveat, count me in.
January 18, 2006 at 8:36 am
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January 18, 2006 at 8:44 am
I plan to be there.
January 18, 2006 at 8:58 am
I will try to re-arrange my schedule to make the dinner.
January 18, 2006 at 9:02 am
Now that I have a nice photo of the Berkeley hills on my blog, and it seems I’m writing about Berkeley more and more often, I definitely have to be thinking about joining you all for dinner even though I’d have to fly up from Los Angeles to do so. If it were a Saturday I’d be there.
January 18, 2006 at 10:05 am
Count me in. I can be the rare .NET voice at these events.
January 18, 2006 at 10:41 am
See you there…
January 18, 2006 at 11:00 am
I intend and expect to be there!
January 18, 2006 at 12:25 pm
2nd the .NET voice comment. I’ll be there.
January 18, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I love things in my neighborhood, especially at a place I haven’t been to in a while. See you there!
Raines
January 18, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Sounds great. I’ll be there.
January 18, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Sounds great. I’ll be there. (sorry about the double comment, WP had me logged in on the wrong blog).
January 18, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Yes! It’s now on my calendar, naturally.
January 18, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Dave, i was trying to add some Feedburner info to my html but can’t figure out how to edit to while i’m on wordpress.com blog. Please, any ideas?
I pasted some htm in the notes section of some of the links but no dice it doesn’t show up.
Thanks
Lawton
January 18, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Sounds fun. I’ll be there.
January 18, 2006 at 5:21 pm
I think I ought to be able to make it. We are working on a new system for blog advertising and the feedback is always useful.
January 19, 2006 at 8:19 am
I’d love to crash since it is only 5 minutes away from my house.
January 19, 2006 at 8:24 am
I’m not too far and it sounds like fun. Count me in.
January 19, 2006 at 10:35 am
Look forward to it. Great idea.
January 19, 2006 at 10:41 am
I would love to come. Thanks.
January 19, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Darn, I’ll miss it by one day. I’m heading to SF Jan 27 – Feb 1. Have fun! (It’s Chinese New Years on Jan 29).
January 20, 2006 at 10:22 am
Great idea.
I look forward to seeing you and meeting other bloggers.
January 20, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Great idea — that’s a wonderful restraunt. I’m working half a block up the street, and I’ll be starving by 7, so count me in!
January 20, 2006 at 8:48 pm
I’m in Palo Alto (visiting from Canada) … I’ll be there assuming I can find an easy way to get there. Hint appreciated.
January 21, 2006 at 8:35 am
I will be there. Looking forward to it.
January 22, 2006 at 10:09 am
I’ll be present — looking forward to it.
January 22, 2006 at 2:57 pm
I’ll try to be there but I might have a conflict… Om already invited me to another dinner this night… ug
Kevin
January 22, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I’ll be out of town (in Phoenix) but hope to make the next one!
Gil
January 22, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Though I am a mere policy blogger, I’d like to come to learn from the experts and hear about what is coming next in this marvelous new world …
Owen
January 22, 2006 at 11:19 pm
I will be there. Is Berkeley destined to become the epicenter of the Blogosphere?
January 23, 2006 at 3:22 pm
It’s about a 1.5 mile bike ride to the restaurant so I can’t pass it up.
Steve Hill
January 25, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Jay, it already is. Hadn’t you noticed?
January 25, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Now that I know you can just show up anyway, I’m in.
January 26, 2006 at 6:52 am
What – where are the kids?
This soireee needs two bubbling little girls – like Mimi and Lucy.
But they’ll want edamamee and Udon noodles.
Dave Winer snaps his fingers and the entire blogoshere adheres. Me – I’m just back from the road and have plenty of AOL and London stories ot share.
BTW Dave – Ted Leonsis wanted me to give you a big fat kiss.
January 26, 2006 at 11:05 am
Well since I just yesterday officially moved to Berkeley I’ll definitely be there this evening as well.
January 26, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Count me in as a .NET/Rails voice!
I’m from Canada, visiting the Valley for a month. I am looking for partners for a startup, or for an opportunity in a great startup.
I have great skills both on the business and technical side. I have been running a software dev shop since 1998.
I’ll see you all tonight!
January 26, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Never been to a bloggers’ dinner, sounds like it’s time to start…
January 26, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Apologies, but I can’t make it after all. I’m just back from a trip and trying to finish something on a deadline before tomorrow morning.
January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[...] So I say “good luck” to Dan. Hopeflly I’ll see him at the dinner tonight. [...]
January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
[...] So I say “good luck” to Dan. Hopeflly I’ll see him at the dinner tonight. [...]
January 26, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I’m assuming the dinner is around 7 pm, right?
January 26, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Nik and Geoff from Omnidrive and Gabe will be there.
January 26, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Coming
January 27, 2006 at 1:52 am
Thanks Dave for a fun event!
I posted links to those in attendance.
http://web2.0central.com/archives/163
Reg
http://www.zigtag.com/
January 27, 2006 at 11:45 am
[...] Dave Winer organized one of his infamous Blogger Dinners last night in Berkeley. Here are a few photos that I shot. I agree with Dave that it’s better to have these dinners be less formal and structured, in order to enable better “circulation”. Often at the sit-down type dinners, you are only able to talk to the people who are sitting near you. Photos from the Berkeley Bloggers Dinner [...]
January 30, 2006 at 8:33 am
[...] The first dinner was great, but we can do even better. We’re shopping for a new venue, and may have it, the Afghan Oasis restaurant, in the Shattuck Hotel, 2086 Allston Way. The SF Chronicle describes it as “the cavernous dining room where diners can sample chef Naim Amir’s Afghan dishes.” The food is excellent, and the room is huge and was virtually empty when I last visited. Sylvia Paull, Marc Canter and myself are meeting there for lunch on Wednesday at noon to have a look and see if we can arrange a fixed-price buffet and a space for mingling, eating and schmoozing. [...]
February 2, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Crap. I missed it. And I live only ten minutes away from the place. I’ll try to make the #2 dinner.