How I met Simon Willison
I know Simon Willison because he is my cousin. hehe.
I first met Simon Willison in 2001—we were in the same first year group at the Computer Science Dept at the University of Bath. He was always very enthusiastic and waving his hands around explaining things, which he still does very frequently.
Amazingly, in our year there were TWO Harry Potter lookalikes and until the movies came out, Simon wasn’t the one regarded as the best fit!
I met Simon right after he joined Yahoo, at the Flickr Fiesta. Our first encounter stood out in my mind for a number of reasons including his DVORAK stickers on his QWERTY Apple laptop.