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Bestival

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Instead of going to Glastonbury in June, this year I joined a select group of festibuddies for Bestival, on the Isle of Wight.
As well as being smaller and less of a juggernaut, it was *supposed* to be a festival with more reliable good weather than Glastonbury.
I arrived on site in a biblical downpour to […]

My CDs: 7: Battles

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

My friend Chris once introduced me to the music of THRONES, saying “It’s impossible to walk and listen to THRONES at the same time”. I can well believe it, since many THRONES tracks have either a really strange time signature, or syncopation so extreme that it may as well be another time signature. However, […]

Holibobs

Friday, July 11th, 2008

We’re off again: Western Canada and Alaska this time. I’m very excited. The trip will be blogged here.

Printcrime

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

To celebrate this week’s breakthrough, in which the open source 3D printer RepRap (currently Slashdotted, as I write) printed a copy of itself (sort of) for the first time, here’s Corey Doctrow’s short story ‘Printcrime‘.
Printcrime
Copy this story.
(originally published in Nature Magazine, January 2006)
Cory Doctorow
The coppers smashed my father’s printer when I was eight. I […]

Fame at last!

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I got mentioned in The Times. I look like some kind of Eurovision nut…
One fan from Leamington Spa is so keen that he sent his notes from the semi-final. “Much gurning” was his view of the Russian entry. Of the Moldovan entry he noted, “under-used trumpet”.
They’re talking about this Flickr image.

Myths about the Eurovision Song Contest that are not true

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Debbie keeps threatening to list the myths about Japan that are not true (trains are always on time, it’s punishingly expensive, you can only get scary Japanese food, etc.). Although I’ve promised to stop thinking about Eurovision for the year, I have to get these off my chest.
1. Political voting
As Ukraine gave Russia 12 […]

A day out in London

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Look at me, blogging.
Eurovision is next week, and we needed some foodstuffs from some of the trickier countries, so we took a daytrip to London by train.
It was FA Cup final day, and our train stopped at Wembley, but it was a little early, and few Cardiff or Portsmouth fans were on our train […]

LP cover frames

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I was in  Solihull yesterday, having a followup checkup for my laser eye surgery. (You may think the laser eye surgery would be a more interesting story — but it’s really not. I had my eyes lasered, it hurt a bit that night, then it didn’t hurt and I can see without glasses. End […]

Regency Run: Done

Monday, April 7th, 2008

We got up early (for us, for a Sunday) on Sunday morning, to find a couple of inches of snow on the ground. Nevertheless, the Regency 10km was going ahead, and we walked up to the park in time for the start.
My aim was to beat an hour. My final chip time was 0:55:15, […]

Treats upcoming

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Things to look forward to, in the order they should happen:

Get a proper melodeon - Saturday if all goes to plan. W00T!
Regency Run - Sunday
Laser eye surgery consultation
Debbie runs the Stratford Half Marathon. I suppose I have to go and support her. Sounds like 3 hours of standing around to me.
Eurovision - and associated […]



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