Blog
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Sub Bass Snarl playing this Sunday
Sub Bass Snarl (and Kerrii) arrive in town tomorrow. They're playing on Sunday night. I finally managed to get details out of them. Apparently playing on laptops these days, due to problems with equip…
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
There are two big sci-fi book releases I've been hanging out for this year. The first is Gibson's Pattern Recognition and later this year will be Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. So this one was pretty…
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New Bowie tour and album
David Bowie is touring again this year! London gig will be at the Wembley Arena on 25th November. Tickets on sale this Friday, apparently, though already available to Bowienet suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmem…
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A great weekend away
We got back last night from an excellent weekend away with Matt, Maz, John and Anne. We were staying in a National Trust property, Sutton Hoo, the site of many Anglo-Saxon burial mounds, including the…
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The English could learn from the Russians
You've probably heard me moan about English beurocracy before. Well they're nothing compared to the Russians! I'm trying to get a tourist visa so I can go and spend money in their country, boosting th…
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Strawberry Tart Full Recipe
What is it about recipes that the moment I link to them, they disappear off the web? Well fortunately Google kept hold of this one, so I bring you the recipe, with my variations included. Strawberry T…
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Email is back
My email is back up and running. Due to a failed backup CD, I lost about month of emails... Grrr... Time to work out a better backup system.
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Bastard Pop this Thursday
This Thursday night, a Bastard Pop experience at Asylum, corner of Charlotte Street "under the newsagent" apparently. Featuring Aussie pop mangler dsico.
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Email is down
My second hard drive failed on Saturday in the major hot spell. It really is rather annoying how much heat hard drives put out these days and how poorly their design dissapates that heat. Worse, you c…
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Visions of Tokyo
I've just discovered an incredible site that uses Flash in a way that actually enhances the information. Amazing, really. Mid-Tokyo Maps presents a range of different views of the city of Tokyo, looki…
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Cycling in Norfolk
Holly and I went cycling in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire this weekend. It looked like rain and my back had been sore on Friday so we didn't do the planned Colchester to The Wash ride. Instead we headed…
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Booked for Russia
We just booked our flights to Moscow for July. We'll be spending two weeks with our friends Nathan and Jenny. They have a flat in Moscow and another in St Petersburg so we'll be dividing our time betw…
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Brummy land weekend
Holly and I went to Birmingham, the UK's second largest city. Largely underrated due to its Midlands location, this city was the heart of the Industrial Revolution which probably caused more social up…
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Badger Rampage
And they say Australia has dangerous animals. Watch out for the badgers. Sounds like a bad horror flick! Mr Weaver said there was no need for people to start fearing an onslaught of badger attacks. Oh…
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Hail storm
Ahhh, just like home only cold. Just had a big storm with hail! Check the pics.
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There's goes the voice of reason
I used to be incredibly impressed by Claire Short's principled stance on issued of development and peace. She had the balls to put her cabinet post on the line over important issues. But I always had…
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Ooh great Meltdown!
This year's Meltdown is being curated by Lee "Scratch" Perry and the lineup looks a doozy! According to NME it includes Public Enemy, Tortoise, Michael Franti and Spearhead, DJ Spooky, Linton Kwesi Jo…
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Apple miss the point
Looks like Apple and the music industry have worked out that the music industry is over. So they've mounted a rear-guard assault to try and claw it back. Let's go through the problems, shall we. To st…
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Now it's back
Well the problem wasn't as serious as I thought, though I'm still getting loads of IDE errors. Email is flowing again. For now.
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Mabye not
Well now it looks like my computer is really fuxx0red. If you need to contact me, email won't be working until I fix it. Try other methods.