A toast to Internet Magazine RIP Tonight, I ventured north to the Betsy Trotwood pub in Farringdon to bid farewell to Internet Magazine. The magazine’s been going since 1994 (it …
A toast to Internet Magazine RIP Read MoreThe urban75 walk I’ve just posted up part one of my report from the urban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves on Saturday.
urban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves Read More
April showers… Actually, it was more like an April monsoon as a mighty thunderstorm hit London tonight, blasting our poor balcony plants with a bloom-beheading salvo of hail and heavy …
April showers… Read More
Going underground After the uber-stress of trying to sort out a new server for urban75, a bonkers, up-for-it weekend was definitely called for – and I wasn’t disappointed. On Saturday, …
Going underground – Chiselhurst caves Read MoreAlbum of the week! Check out the Tom Waits approved debut album from enigmatic American country/folk songstress, Jolie Holland. Described as a ‘thrift-store poet’ singing like a cross between Billie …
Album of the week! Jolie Holland Read More
Let the fund raising begin! With money desperately needed to keep the site afloat, I’ve just announced the latest (micro) money-spinner: urban75 badges! Priced at a mere £1 for 1, …
Let the fund raising begin! Read MoreMaximum hassle I’ve had an utterly miserable time desperately trying to sort out a new home for the bandwidth-guzzling bulletin boards. Despite the generous donations being thrust my way from …
Maximum hassle – finding a home for urban75 Read MoreNow, I’m definitely not one for any of that ear-candle, chakra-chanting psychic healing tosh, but I have to say that acupuncture floats my boat. I first tried it last year …
Acupunctured! Read More
And on a happier note…. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll know that I spent an eternity mulling over what camera to buy, eventually plumping for the Minolta A2 …
Minolta A2 camera Read MoreWhat a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Apart from a quick shimmy to the Brixton Lounge for an afternoon coffee, I’ve spent the entire day trying to sort out the tricky …
What a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Read MoreA spectacularly shite day I’ve spent the greater part of the day suffering Bulletin Board Tech Hell, enduring so much fucking hideous 1980s ‘on hold’ music that I may as …
A spectacularly shite day Read More
Waiting for the train… The view from the platform of Lelant Station while waiting for the 15:25 branch line train to St Ives. (Pic taken with my Sony Clie PDA …
Waiting for the train… Read More
Local history-tastic! The Cornish weather took a turn for the worse, so we checked out the attractions of St Ives. First stop was the Library to avail ourselves of …
An afternoon in St Ives, Cornwall Read MoreSpring in St Ives Its narrow streets are thundering to perhaps a few more tourists than I’d like (the curse of Easter continues!), but once you get away from the …
Spring in St Ives Read MoreThrough the Cornish hillside… There aren’t many things nicer than watching the verdant hills of Cornwall rolling by from a train window with “When Mac was Swimming” (Innocence Mission) on …
Through the Cornish hillside… Read More
A bad technology day This cartoon (from Rana and Peter’s birthday card to me) seems to perfectly sum up the last hour of my life, although this time the grief …
A bad technology day Read MoreMo:blogging One of the articles I wrote for Internet Magazine was a four page special on mobile blogging, explaining how you can use a Palm and a mobile phone to …
Mo:blogging on the Palm Read MoreI fucking hate Easter. It’s like four dull Sundays all shunted together into a 1950s-style weekend of cruelly curtailed drinking hours. A great mass of London buggers off leaving the …
Easter blues… Read MoreWriting and alcohol I’ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk …
Writing and alcohol Read MoreA Brixton drunk night It was one of those nights that make you feel good to be alive: meeting loads of chums in your local, chewing the fat, talking shit …
A Brixton drunk night Read More
Top night! Updates from a fabulous night in the West End, watching feminist Oregon rockers, Le Tigre at the Astoria. And they rocked! We met up with urban75-ers Kea, Phototropic, …
Le Tigre at the Astoria, 2004 Read MoreApologies to urban75 bulletin board folk The boards have been going up and down faster than an over-excited pneumatic drill on amyl nitrate today, but the word is that someone …
Apologies to urban75 bulletin board folk Read More
Ouch! Me ‘ead Today I’m suffering the mother, father and extended family of hangovers. Last night was lager plus – and more – and now I’m paying the full price …
Ouch! Me ‘ead. Birthday party hangover Read MoreWeb-tastic It doesn’t seem that long ago that the web was seen as the exclusive domain of tightly zipped anoraked spodheads – I can remember when receiving an email was …
Web-tastic Read More