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Engiporn
I'm always fascinated with what's underneath modern cities. It's incredible when you look into it how much of the infrastructure is under our fee The third dimension hides sewers, power and water main…
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Email is down
Annoyingly, my ADSL router died yesterday. However, my ISP are absolutely brilliant. I phoned them up, described the problem and they've agreed to send out a replacement which should arrive tomorrow.…
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Alchemists of Sound
I just saw an amazing documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the creators of spooky soundtracks for BBC programming. Anyone who grew up in the seventies remembers the scary sound effects and…
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In the bucket
Well the beer's in the bucket and on its way. Looks good! Mmmmm.
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Mmmm. Beer.
Last night I started my first solo batch of homebrew beer with a yeast starter. The yeast were bubbling away this morning, multiplying like mad and looking good. I'll chuck the kit in the fermenter to…
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Free State Project: Amerikkka's lead plumbing?
The Free State Project is an interesting idea run by a bunch of no-government, libertarian, gun freak nutjobs. The plan is to get 20,000 people who share their paranoid world - view to move to one spa…
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Critically listening to The Beatles
I've recently been listening in some detail to the more structurally complex Beatles songs such as Happiness is a Warm Gun and the Abbey Road medley (You Never Give Me Your Money/Sun King/Mean Mr Must…
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That's Uncle Simon to you
Well it looks like I'm an uncle again. After a protracted labour eventually requiring caesarian, Holly's sister Sam gave birth to Alfie early this morning. Mother, baby and dad are reportedly all well…
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Yahoo IM want and deserve to die
Yahoo's instant messaging system recently blocked third-party clients from connecting to their network. Microsoft are about to try the same thing soon. The hackers have just sorted it out. All of thes…
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Vote early, vote often
Well I got to vote in my first British election today. I wasn't enrolled for any of the previous ones. Yes, pommies, we colonials are allowed vote in your elections, but you can't vote in ours when yo…
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Poor Pauline
Today started rather inauspiciously. Yawn. Bash alarm off. Crawl out of bed. Grunt at girlfriend. Remember it's a weekday and (ugh) I have to go to work. Then when I got to work, one of my colleagues…
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Zappa's Thing Fish
An adaptation of Frank Zappa's musical, Thing Fish, is being performed next week at the Battersea Arts Centre. I'm thinking Saturday matinee. Get in touch if you wanna see it. Should be a laugh!
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Reclaim the Beach tomorrow
There's another Reclaim the Beach in London tomorrow night. Should be damn fun! Supposedly, the site hasn't been updated. We went to the last one and had a great time. Just take a loo with you and dri…
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Have we gone native?
In case you missed it, the UK temperature record was broken yesterday with temperatures reaching 38.1° Celsius in Gravesend, East of London. Holly and I really felt the heat. Back in Oz, we wouldn't b…
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Marriage is a sacred institution
Along the same theme as John Winston Howard's recent idiotic comments about marriage, the Village Voice has a hilarious comic.
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Photos are up
I spent much of the weekend scanning photos. There's stack of new photos up here. A weekend away at an Anglo-Saxon burial site. This year's Glastonbury St Petersburg Moscow Rostov the Great, a town ou…
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Back from Russia
Haven't had a chance to write about our experiences in Russia yet. Tomorrow night I'll be picking up our photos and will spend the night scanning them in and writing about it. We had a fabulous time a…
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Great party
We had a housewarming/birthday party on Saturday night. Had a fabulous time with loads of good friends. Such a good time that I forgot to take any photos. London's transport system causes an interesti…
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Glastonbury 2003
We got home from Glastonbury last night and wow, was it a great festival! Musical highlights were Ozomatli's brilliant, energetic morning set on the Pyramid Stage and Asian Dub Foundation's lively set…
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Reclaim the Beach
Last night we went to Reclaim the Beach, a party on the Thames. Perfect Summer Solstice weather and loads of people milling around and dancing to old-school funk tunes. Good fun! Only downer was the l…