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It’s been a good couple of days for me and the new musics and it looks to get better next week when my emusic account rolls over and I have 50 more tracks of newness for to download. However at the moment my new musicness is not downloadable without a bit of effort and is [...]

So, would anyone else out there want to go and see the Alabama 3 at The Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Thursday December 4th? Tickets are £20 + whatever ever random scalping fees the website charge, and the band are rather excellent.

I saw them do an acoustic set at Paradise Gardens this year and they were [...]

It may be the beverages talking, but while meandering through the back streets from the station I started thinking about the wonders of the ULTIMATE FOODSTUFF. It started with a thought back to work, when my minion Phil came round to enquire as to whether I had seen any unclaimed biscuits lying around in the [...]

As Beth has already mentioned, I finished my current circumnavigation of the worldEurope with a wee trip up to Edinburgh for the festival. I’d not been up before and my impressions of the experience were based mainly on reading Richard Herring’s blog for the last few years – I expected tiny empty venues covered in [...]

Saturday night was the last night of racing at Walthamstow Stadium. There were tales of emergency meetings on Sunday and new bidders, but as far as I know the sale is all done and dusted, and while there’s no definitive “there will be flats here soon”, there’s a distinct feeling that there will be flats [...]

Continuing on my recent theme of international travel, I nipped over to sunny Copenhagen last week for YAPC::EU::2008, the first Perl conference I’ve managed to drag my sorry, barely-programming-these-days arse to outside of London. And it was good – I met a bunch of rather excellent people, saw some scary perly things and drank a [...]

So, I did go to see the military things in the end, although I foolishly decided to walk the entire way. As with the other day, I done made a map – 10.5 miles walked in the two days I’ve been holiday, well done me. Getting to the museum was a bit of a trek, [...]

So after my evening of confusion on arriving in Sofia, the mystical 8-8-8 Friday was set out to be a more sedate affair, with a vague schedule involving the wedding that I’d come over here to celebrate. However, I made the mistake of not actually looking at the timing of the wedding and as such [...]

So here I am in sunny Sofia (and I don’t mean that lightly – it’s knocking on 35degC and I’m hiding in an air conditioned bar, slightly dazzled by the reflection of said sun on the umbrellas protecting the fools sitting on the patio outside) for Adam Horner’s wedding. That’s not until tomorrow evening (which [...]

This has not been a good week so far. On top of the general broken brain-ness that I am currently having (which is really good fun) it is a very busy time at work and I’m away doing fun things for the next three weeks, leaving me lots of things to set up before I [...]