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Month: April 2004

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A toast to Internet Magazine RIP

Fri 30th April, 2004Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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London / photos

urban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves

Wed 28th April, 2004Wed 22nd December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The urban75 walk I’ve just posted up part one of my report from the urban75 walk to Chislehurst Caves on Saturday.

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April showers…

Tue 27th April, 2004Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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London / photos

Going underground – Chiselhurst caves

Tue 27th April, 2004Wed 22nd December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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, …

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Album of the week! Jolie Holland

Thu 22nd April, 2004Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Album 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 …

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Let the fund raising begin!

Thu 22nd April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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, …

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Maximum hassle – finding a home for urban75

Thu 22nd April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Maximum 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 …

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Acupunctured!

Wed 21st April, 2004Thu 15th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Now, 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 …

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Minolta A2 camera

Tue 20th April, 2004Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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What a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day

Tue 20th April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

What 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 …

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A spectacularly shite day

Mon 19th April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A 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 …

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Mon 19th April, 2004 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Brixton at its finest! It may have been a Sunday, but it turned out to be a full on kinda night! Meet my well lubricated chums at the Prince Albert! …

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Waiting for the train…

Fri 16th April, 2004Wed 5th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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An afternoon in St Ives, Cornwall

Thu 15th April, 2004Wed 11th December, 2013 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Spring in St Ives

Wed 14th April, 2004Fri 4th June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Spring 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 …

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Places

Through the Cornish hillside…

Tue 13th April, 2004Wed 22nd December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Through 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 …

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A bad technology day

Mon 12th April, 2004Wed 14th July, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

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 …

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Mo:blogging on the Palm

Sun 11th April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Mo: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 …

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Easter blues…

Sat 10th April, 2004Wed 14th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I 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 …

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Writing and alcohol

Sat 10th April, 2004Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Writing 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 …

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A Brixton drunk night

Fri 9th April, 2004Mon 17th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A 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 …

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Wed 7th April, 2004 - by editor - Leave a Comment

New party photos online! Apologies for the delay, but the photos from the Offline 3 party at the Ritzy, Brixton last night are now up on the site.

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Le Tigre at the Astoria, 2004

Tue 6th April, 2004Mon 7th January, 2019 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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, …

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Apologies to urban75 bulletin board folk

Mon 5th April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Apologies 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 …

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Ouch! Me ‘ead. Birthday party hangover

Sun 4th April, 2004Thu 3rd June, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Sat 3rd April, 2004 - by editor - Leave a Comment

It’s my birthday!And so far it’s been a good ‘un. The day started with a hearty breakfast in bed (hot croissants, fresh fruit and Earl Grey – thanks Em!), followed …

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Fri 2nd April, 2004 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Fame! I want to live forever! Publicity ahoy! The urban75 ‘lad detector’ has sprung into action after archetypal blokes mag, FHM Magazine, declared urban75 to be one of their “greatest …

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Web-tastic

Thu 1st April, 2004Thu 22nd April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Web-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 …

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