Dead Tree Update

A couple of notable book releases around now. Sarah Brown‘s Cringe is now available in hardback, being a collection of embarrassing teenage diary entries and the like. It’s based on a cathartic reading evening of the same name created by Sarah and a regular Brooklyn draw. I attended the London premiere of Cringe back in June… Continue reading Dead Tree Update

My American Fellows

Danny O’Brien describes his reaction to the current showbiz extravaganza that is the Democratic National Convention. I don’t really like writing about politics here, because I’m too inarticulate (basically I’m a Euston Manifesto type of guy, with all the “yes, but how?” vagueness that entails). But as an Englishman now living in San Diego, I’m… Continue reading My American Fellows

Lloyds TSB Are A Rotten Terrible Bank, And Stupid

This little item made me smile. A guy in the UK had his bank password set to ‘Lloyds is pants’, and they changed it behind his back and told him it wasn’t appropriate. He told the media, and now it’s all over the Web. Well done you! I’m a Lloyds TSB victim customer, and I’ve been… Continue reading Lloyds TSB Are A Rotten Terrible Bank, And Stupid

Name That…

A few online quiz results, instead of a proper post. NameThatDisease.com – Identify The Disease NameThatDrug.com – Name That Drug NameThatCity.com – Test Your City Knowledge NameThatSerialKiller.com – Test Your Serial Killer Knowledge

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I Wear My Wartime Coat In The Wind And Sleet

My friends Brian and Stacy are away from Hollywood at the moment. They’re on their delayed honeymoon, which for them is to fly to England, retrieve their scooters from storage, and then do the things and have days. You know, ride to the Isle of Wight, Paris, the Ace Cafe (now scooter-friendly, apparently), all under… Continue reading I Wear My Wartime Coat In The Wind And Sleet

Pacific Train Thoughts

~ from notes found on my laptop, dated several weeks ago ~ Early evening, coming out of Santa Fe Depot. 3 hours away from Los Angeles. I’m on the Pacific side of the train, but I don’t know if I’ll see much of the ocean. At the moment there’s a hill in the way. The sun will… Continue reading Pacific Train Thoughts

Updating Fire Eagle Location Using Plazes And SMS

In the spirit of following through, here’s an update on the auto-location thing I was writing about last week. I asked a question on the Fire Eagle website about how to update via SMS, and I got a helpful email from one of the Fire Eagle team, the man himself, Tom Coates, suggesting I use… Continue reading Updating Fire Eagle Location Using Plazes And SMS

Updating Fire Eagle Location Using Palm Centroid

Yahoo!’s new location-aware service, Fire Eagle (named after the marvellous Ze Frank’s Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day segment of his year-long the show) is now available to the public. Being the sort of person that signs up for new webby stuff, I had joined a while back out of curiosity, using some freebie invite… Continue reading Updating Fire Eagle Location Using Palm Centroid

Album Filler

The is a bit old now, but fun. It was seen on Capt Renault’s blog, and elsewhere. Make up a band name and album title, and then create the cover! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last five words of the very last quote is… Continue reading Album Filler

Eno And iPods

Yes, it’s another blast from the past as I manage to get round to posting something based on notes written over two years ago. It was back in January 2006 when I went to Goldsmiths college with Mira to hear a talk by Brian Eno about, well, Brian Eno and his ways. I like Brian Eno, especially… Continue reading Eno And iPods