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I hate this
But does it matter? I don’t usually say that sort of thing here. I try to be more measured, less personal. I’m talking about the police face recognition vans obviously. This might not surprise you: I mean that I don’t like them. I’m an old git after all, a man who’s written here before about […]
Nearly half a bicycle
The atomic theory in Kilburn This place (on Kilburn High Road) has been morphing steadily from dry cleaner’s to bike shop over the last few years. I remember being surprised one morning to see a few kids’ bikes lined up for sale outside but I’d say the shop is now approaching 50% bike shop. You […]
Where is my patriotism?
Come, love of country, fill my heart… I do love Britain. I guess I love England more. London most of all. I hope that in my life I’ve honoured the place I live and not disgraced it or undermined it (I support England and GB in sporting events – I fly a little flag on […]
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So sue me…
Listen, I’m a parent. I’m going to do this from time to time: three pics of my beautiful children.
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Going to the zoo…
Yesterday I cold-called London Zoo about their online marketing. We love the zoo round here – we have an annual pass – best private club in town, if you ask…
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Middle management anarchists
Notcon was, of course, splendid. I didn’t see enough of it to provide much of an overview (so you might want to read these guys: Wired News, David Brake, himself,…
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Vine again
We got to Stella Vine’s opening at Transition early enough to meet the artist properly and to see all the work before the celebs showed up. Brilliant. I took some…
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Stella Vine at Transition
This evening we’re going here to see this and we are very excited (we don’t get out much) – and last night we watched this video from French telly (or…
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Sterling’s green links
Bruce Sterling has this fantastically useful list of green (and green-ish) resources at Wired Blogs. Did he dig these links out for himself?
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World’s oldest company?
I sat down today to write 300 words for a special New Media Age to mark ten years of ‘new media’ in Britain and I thought I’d just get some…
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Firing myself
This is the kind of thing you find when you’re cleaning out your storage unit: my P45 from Webmedia, given to me (by me) when I finally closed the doors…
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Franz Schubert vs George Formby
This is why a public service broadcaster needs a stable online archive. A year ago I blogged a really lovely Radio 4 programme about Schubert’s C major quintet and linked…