I’m back in New York this week, and I went to see Spring Awakening at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. I’m a huge fan of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s collaboration...
So, the ‘little’ downtime has been most of a week, which kind of serves me right for buggering around with my server so much when I had other things to...
I’m freshly arrived home from Barcamp London, which was enormous fun. I’ll be posting up the slides, with notes, from my presentation (Everything I know about programming I learnt from...
One of the things that was most appealing about my first computer, besides the fact that my mate Mark had one, was the fact that the BBC ‘B’ was the...
So, the government wants us to carry biometric national ID cards does it? Arguments about how dangerous the proposals are have been made elsewhere (NO2ID, the people behind that have...
A top N, in alphabetical order The Arcade Fire: Funeral Settled in the ground of melancholic euphoria, Funeral mixes its influences liberally and fluently, drawing from indie rock, Canadian and...
I was at the dentist. I found out because my dentist’s mother phoned from India to check if my dentist was alright. Clare was evacuated from the tube when they...
I’ve just finished playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I bought it six months ago, and it’s lain around waiting for me to finish other games. I remember...
I caught the first episode of Outlaws, a BBC Three series which has come to BBC 2. I caught it again on Sunday night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Centred around...
I’ve just finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. The overwhelming sensation I had while reading the book was discomfort: I was torn between wanting to just keep reading, to not...
Amazon were a day late delivering my copy of the long-awaited Halo 2, but I’ve had a chance to spend a couple of hours in its company. I was expecting...
The Truck Festival is a small (3,000 people) festival which happens in Steventon, Oxfordshire, and has done for the last seven years. I haven’t for a long time (1999 or...
Okay, I know I’m biased when it comes to the BBC. Caveats aside, I’ve just finished watching a time-shifted (twice! by me and my employer) BBC Four documentary about Richard...
I’ve just visited the New City Architecture exhibition, in the City of London (in the middle of this square in Broadgate, which has somehow metamorphosed into a public area, complete...
The effectiveness of a reasoned, well-constructed and accurate critique
Amidst the maelstrom of complaint about the way Apple have handled recent security problems John Gruber has complained about Apple viewing security updates as a marketing problem, in Security cannot...
This Warren Ellis three-part comic has finally had its third and last part published. I didn’t know anything about this series — the first two parts were published a long...
I’m very fond of 21 South Street, one of Reading Council’s venues, with two small (70 and 100) capacity rooms. We use South Street for Delicatessen, and it works a...
Mmmmm. Marmalade. Take some Oranges (Seville), some sugar (preserving) and some water (from the tap), peel, chop, juice, simmer, add sugar, boil and then, in theory, marmalade. Testing: The...
I have a deep-rooted fondness for Radio 4, and some of my favourite Radio 4 things are gentle first-person documentaries, where people are just talking. Second City Sitting, people talking...
I had. I'd actually forgotten. Thanks to "Boing Boing's":http://boingboing.net/ guestbar blogger Todd Lappin for "reminding me(The relevant bit of the guestbar)":http://boingboing.net/text/2003_11_09_guestbar.html. Following links "hither(The main SpaceShipOne project page)":http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm and "yon(The...
Oh, cool: someone’s built a graffiti plotter which can be attached to walls. I like the idea of axonometric projections as graffiti, and the video is cool: the water cycle...
The last entry I posted to this blog’s predecessor was on the morning of 11 September, 2001… I had a job interview that day, at a big corporate design shop...