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Happy Halloween! I’m just about ready to hit the town wearing a really horrible weird wooden mask that I’ve been too scared to throw out (in case it comes back …

Goodbye Concorde! The most beautiful passenger planes ever built make their final flights today, with three Concordes landing within minutes of each other at 1600 pm at Heathrow. There’s a …

Tate Modern/Brighton rocks! Top weekend! On Saturday, I checked out the amazing ‘Weather Project’ at the Tate Modern – an amazing installation that creates an indoor outdoors, if you get …

Aaargh! Disaster! Both the urban75.org and .net parts of the site have gone completely down, so great chunks of the site won’t be working…. Anyone desperately missing the bulletin boards …

Sniff-tastic I’ve just been laid low by my first cold of the year. The weird thing was that it came on in minutes: I was feeling just dandy sorting out …

Wi Fi’d! Those of you who followed this blog over the years will know about my long running battle with my home network. For some brief, glorious moments, everything works …

Another weekend rolls by… Saturday, we grabbed breakfast at the Brixton Lounge and met up with my NYC mate Matt and Ted/Dave. Then it was into the West End for …

Nigerian scam emails: fighting back! Ever been blasted with loads of dodgy emails from people purporting to be Nigerian businessmen offering you millions of pounds? Well, this guy got so …

A minor hangover Last night was a good ‘un, starting off with a visit to the trusty Albert for a chum’s birthday. For the first time this year it was …

“You dirty old man!” Just come back from the Boston Arms in Tufnell Park after a brief visit. The Actionettes were booked to perform with 60s pop producer, Kim Fowley. …

Football woes The good news: Cardiff City have no problem scoring goals, thumping in five in the last two matches. The bad news: on both occasions, the other team scored …

A feast of stats! Unzip your anoraks, push up your band-aided specs and get a load of these tech-tastic stats! Oh yes! Access stats! The urban75.net part of the site …

Disaster! The mighty Wales bombed 0-4 to Italy in the San Siro stadium tonight, despite putting up a brave fighting display that wasn’t reflected in the score. I watched the …

A feast of favicons! If you didn’t know, favicons are the neat little icons that appear in your favourites list and in the browser bar when you bookmark a page. …

I hate football… Cardiff 0 Bradford 2 Serbia & Montenegro 1 Wales 0 What made the Welsh result all more depressing was the filthy torrent of disgusting racist abuse coming …

Deadline battling again Once again the urban75 mansions are resounding to the sound of exasperated sighs and table-thumping hissy fits, as yours truly battles to start an overdue article for …

Stevie Wonder had an album out called ‘Hotter Than July’ He’s been better off calling it, “fucking boiling hot August”, in my book. Yesterday was the hottest day in UK …

The fattest pigs in the world As ever, man’s cruelty to animals know no bounds. In Taiwan, pigs are penned in and force-fed sand or heavy metals such as lead …

Aaaargh! The heat! Bollocks to his chuffing heat. It’s now a blistering 34C in my office and I’m hating it – and there’s more of the same on the way …

The football season kicks off! For the first time in 18 years, the mighty Cardiff City are now playing in the heady heights of the First Division! The good news …

Sweltering in the sweaty, sticky heat Today was the hottest day in London since records began, with the temperature climbing up to a hideously steaming 35.3 degrees Celsius (95.34 Fahrenheit …

The heat! The heat! Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not a fan of hot weather. That’s not to say I don’t mind a bit of sun if I happen …

More buttons than a shirt factory Yep, that’s what my new Logitech MX desktop keyboard/mouse combo has got! There’s eight buttons on the mouse, and a host of extra gizmos …

Currently rotating, jumping and involuntarily repeating on my increasingly erratic CD player: Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power Radiohead: Hail to the the …

Photographic quandary I’m currently flogging off a load of bits’n’bobs around the flat so that I can afford a new digital camera – but which one to go for? Here’s …

I want! I want! I want! Check out this incredibly cute new PDA from Sony

Weird moment of the day BBC London’s Jon Gaunt radio show were broadcasting from Brixton yesterday and I thought I’d take a look on my way to do some shopping. …

King of the hangovers! That’s how my head feels today after some industrial strength quaffing last night. First stop was the New Statesman New Media Awards which were, frankly, a …

Brixton Rocks! It’s all happening in Brixton at the moment as the Destination Brixton Expo is in town for the week. On Friday we checked out some local art in …