Licence to Roam

I’m off to Hide and Seek Fest in a fortnight, a London games festival that is taking place over a weekend, with lots of different types of games. However, one of them has already started – the Day of the Figurines You go to the Southbank Centre, sign up, choose your tiny little figure from […]

Yesterday, I was planning on going to the Flickr Walk about and then wondering off later to catch pictures of the London Naked Bike Ride where “riders decorate their bodies and bikes with messages of protest against oil dependency and car culture.” I got up late and never really got my stuff together to get […]

public service announcement, originally uploaded by RachelC. These two fine chaps are after a date. But they have a few requirements: 1. Be able to reverse a trailer 2. Be able to rig a single in the dark. 3. Be able to rig an 8 in 20 mins. 4. Know nielson kellerman wiring 5. Remember […]

Today has been a mixed day. This morning we ran a series of races for the beginner scullers. They seemed to be happy, even the guy who managed to fall in three times. This afternoon i was building a den in the woods with mike’s kids (mike runs the army rowing course i’m hanging around). […]

Trying out scribe to post from the phone. So far so good but it could all in wrong when i hit send 😉

I usually cite Raiders of the Lost Ark as my favourite film and this week has been marked in my calendar for months as the time to see the new Indy film after a 19 year gap. Today I did and I’m still not sure what to think. So more after the cut.

Here’s my veggies on April 13 And here they are on May 13. They’ve all survived, although I needed to put slug killer down, and are growing well. I’ve had a lot of rocket and lettuce todate, the rest I need to wait for. I feel really proud of my little veggies 😉

Kevin Anderson was speaking on a panel the other day about The Future of Newspapers. Regardless of what else is happening in the industry, if they keep doing things like this, I’m not sure they deserve a future. NML had a conversation with a Daily Mail reporter, which turned into an article about how she, […]

Maryam has a list of books from Library Thing – the list of the most unread books on people’s shelves. It’s actually a dynamic list based on tags, so the current list is not necessarily what she has recorded – but here’s my take on the current list. Bold are the ones I’ve read, italics […]

Yesterday, the Guardian ran a GameCamp in London, helped a lot by Sony who provided the venue at their 3Rooms building in Shoreditch. By shear co-incidence, there was a Gamecamp in Toronto on the same day, the difference being that the London one was based on the BarCamp premise of a self organising day for […]

Do we praise Sony for their brave move in making 250000 songs available for free listening on the We7 music site or condemn for making you listen to a 10 second ad before every song? I’m not sure, my first instinct is annoyance and frustration that they still don’t get it. The ratio seems a […]

I went to a blogger screening last night of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This was arranged via Twitter by Sizemore, with about 30 people turning up for the show. The film is made by the same people who did The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, 2 films I’ve not seen nor really had the […]

The BBC reports from Liverpool St station, where there was a live Rick Mob yesterday. For those who have not seen it, a Rick Roll is where you send someone a link and it goes to Rick Astley’s Never Going to Give You Up. It hit the peak (and maybe jumped the shark) with You […]