Archive of posts tagged with London
Sweating through early summer
May 24th, 2009The weather’s hotting up, the running’s been continuing and I’m making reasonable progress, having run 61Km this month in all kinds of weather. The low point was a particularly windswept 7k in Finsbury Park in which I got absolutely soaked and shat on by a bird with greeny-coloured poo. Today’s run was the longest so [...]
Two whole weeks off in London
October 19th, 2008The last time i had two consecutive weeks to myself was a very long time ago. Even at university, when only 30 weeks a year were spent in lectures, there wasn’t ever a time when I wasn’t staying up doing overnight recording sessions to finish off my portfolio or checking other people’s data entry to [...]
Victoria line closures in iCal format
September 21st, 2008I recently moved to Finsbury Park, and luckily the weekends have been nice enough to afford drinking tea outside on our teeny teeny little roof terrace thingy. Tea good. Victoria line being off is a slight nuisance though, and it causes all kinds of woe when people want brave the tube and come round to [...]
Who’d live in a house like this?
August 25th, 2008Over the last month or so I’ve been flat-hunting extensively, crossing the threshold of various abodes listening to the same estate agent spiel. Sadly the experience was nothing out of the ordinary, and despite what anyone says, garden flats will always be a bit dark; rooms remain the same size regardless of which way around [...]
Boris vs Ken: is this really happening?
April 6th, 2008Not normally one to comment on politics, but the London mayoral election race just seems so much closer than it ought to. I mean. Really. Boris Johnson? As mayor? For real? Is anyone really going to vote for him? With that hair? Johnson vs Livingstone: it’s now on a knife-edge Stop Boris
Hamlet on a Sunday
March 10th, 2008If you’ve a spare tenner next weekend get your ass along to The Factory theatre company’s Hamlet. It takes place in a different London venue each week with cast members playing different characters. There are no props other than those provided by the audience, which on my visit yesterday included a barbie doll, sponge, mop, [...]
The sounds of early 2008
February 23rd, 2008Here are a few things I’ve been listening to so far this year – I’m on the look out for some new aural stimulation, and trusty last.fm recommendations can only go so far before you need a bit of good old word-of-blog, so if you have a minute let me know what’s been floating your [...]
Aggregated fireworks
November 4th, 2007Like some deep-sea creature, originally uploaded by minor9th. Wandered up to Primrose Hill to watch some good old Guy Fawkes remberance last night – not expecting a display up there, but hoping to get a good vantage point over the rest of the London’s displays. All in all it was grand – bottle of port, [...]
La marché française
July 28th, 2007On the last weekend of July every year, there is a French market in Ealing. Today I bought some pain a l’oignon, as last year, because it’s right nice. So I put my GCSE French to good practice by asking for the bread in (crap) French, asking how much it was in French, and thanking [...]
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♪ striking a note on the web- Why *BBC* Dimensions? :: On Newsnight a couple of weeks ago, Emily Maitlis chaired a discussion between David McCandless (author of Information is Beautiful) and Neville Brody on displaying statistics and historical facts in unusual, interesting and relative ways. That's the BBC I like. Like Rich, I'm not sure the BBC needs another website (not hosted at the BBC, either) to fawn over now but forget about later.
- Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world :: Farmville has more users than Twitter. Eek.
- BBC Genome: The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC :: This is a really lovely project.
- Dear 8 year-old Teresa :: Teresa Juniso gets a 21-years-too-late letter from the Wil Wheaton fan club she tried to join in 1988.
- Is the web really dead? :: Debunking Wired's graph showing overall web traffic shrinking. Proportionally it may be declining, but in volume absolutely not.
- Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott :: Want some of these!
- What cyclists can be fined for :: These are way too lenient. I'm forever being run over by cyclists on zebra crossings.
- How To Be Alone :: Lonely is healing if you make it
- Best goal celebration ever! :: Iceland's football league do something a bit fishy when they get one in the net (via @spaceboy)
- Fabulous Ex-Gay Explains How Straight He Is :: "I used to have the best-looking boyfriend on the Castro". LOL.
- Clare Balding vs AA Gill :: "It may be your job to defend your writer and your editorial team but if you really think that homophobia does not exist and was not demonstrated beyond being ‘the butt of a joke’ then we have a problem."
- Time Machine Editor :: Handy little app which gives control over how frequently your Mac will back up.
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