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Yesterday I went and took some photos. No big deal, you may say, knowing that my love of carrying my camera everywhere is inevitably leading to an increasingly advancing old age fraught with back troubles and the hunched appearance that carrying a rucksack full of gear will bring. However, this time you would be wrong, [...]

Gosh, comic shop of my choice, has a naughty habit of putting rather shiny things on the counter to tempt in the impulsive impulse buyer. Like me. So yesterday, I grabbed a copy of Guy Samson’s “Haiku Film Reviews”, a slim volume of Ronseal-like simplicity. I flicked through and was cheerily grabbed by a few [...]

Today was the second London Transport Museum scavenger hunt and after enjoying the last one (and winning) I signed up for this one as well. Rather than the more random “stuff involving transport in London” theme of the last one, this was all about The Roundel, celebrating its 100th birthday this year. I will not [...]

This morning I went to have a look at Seesmic, the video networking site that I have a bad habit of posting to after a few beverages, and found a large number of tributes to Craig Manganello, one of the well known people in the Seesmic circle, who died yesterday. I didn’t really know him, [...]

Shot at The Temperance, where it looked like they had a smoke machine running upstairs. On further olfactory investigation that was discounted and we blamed it on a smoky kitchen hidden somewhere below. I like the idea of a pub built in a refurbished temperance hall.

As many of you know, I am a regular visitor to and helper with the Sci-Fi-London film festival, which I am rather a big fan of. This year in addition to the main festival earlier this year, they are also running an October festival, cunningly named Oktoberfest. The programme is tending towards the Halloweeny, with [...]

So, it was the Freewheel at the weekend and I unfurled my bike for another go. It wasn’t the only time I’ve used my bike since the last one, but I suspect it was the second or maybe third. I jumped on the train at Ealing Broadway, bike under one arm (as I said on [...]

So this weekend, in amongst the Open House-ing shenanigans and the “lower reaches of Billy’s body” destroying fun of the Freewheel I acquired a copy of the new Star Wars game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, TFU to it’s friends (Spaced reference alert).
The demo didn’t particularly impress, with a dodgy quick time event at the end [...]

It worries me that today, after a day of wandering around places for Open House London, taking many photos (although not in The United Grand Lodge [which was rather excellent, leaving me loaded up with freemasonery propaganda leaflets and a masonic be-symbolled collapsible cup, bought from the masonic gift shop], as they didn’t allow photography, or in St [...]

There are some more good uses for the toast printer to be found in the comments over on my LJ, if anyone is actually reading this via cowfish.org.uk rather than over at Livejournal.