Author Archives: adrian
Huuuuuuge photo uploadage
Great news from Vancouver-based photo hosting community Flickr… the long-promised Pro Account is now active! It’s officially only in beta stage at the moment, but when this works out (including the 30% beta discount) at around £46 for two years, … Continue reading
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Airline security – still lacking?
With travelling still reasonably fresh in my mind, a quick rant about a tangential issue. I’ve travelled by aeroplane more than ten times since 11 September 2001. The tragedy of that day should have engendered massive changes in the way … Continue reading
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Trans-Siberian journal now online
As promised, I’ve typed up and html-ified the travel journal we hastily scribbled during our recent holiday. There’s eight pages of it, so don’t feel you have to read it just to be polite ;-) Adrian and Nicola’s Trans-Siberian Adventure … Continue reading
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Back!
Well, I intended to add updates here, but time just wasn’t co-operating. The few short blasts of internet cafe time I had just weren’t enough for anything more than email checking and keeping in touch with #ukmg so apologies for … Continue reading
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In summary…
Why have I not written anything for a while? Well, I’ve been quite busy with work things over the past week or so. Never mind. I’ll be doing some more exciting things over the next three weeks, though, and intend … Continue reading
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A-HAAAAAAA!
Jonathan Edwards seems like a nice bloke, but he’s probably not quite ready for top TV sports punditry just yet. Commentating on the men’s high jump in the Olympics, he produced this piece of classic Alan Partridge… “And here is… … Continue reading
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From the playpen
Time for one of these posts again… Right now I’m listening to ‘A Lifetime of Temporary Relief’, a new box-set of B-sides, rarities and unreleased stuff by Low. It’s particularly interesting to hear the very first demos; two tracks recorded … Continue reading
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Fashion nostalgia in the 2004 Olympics
It’s Olympics time again! As usual, I’m taking a fairly casual interest (apart from football and tennis, I tend not to watch all that much sport on TV) just browsing the BBC’s excellent multi-channel online/tv output and watching a little … Continue reading
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Rapist opens bag of crisps, finds £10 note and takes over the world
When I heard the news report yesterday, telling how a prisoner serving time for attempted rape had won £7m in the Lottery, it was all too clear what would happen next. Tabloid headlines of the “Kill this sick pervert!” type … Continue reading
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Let’s all be in the Premiership!
This will be totally irrelevant to those of you who follow Premiership football (which the broadsheet newspapers seem to assume is just about everyone) but I’m still somewhat bewildered by the latest rebranding of the English professional league hierarchy. [To … Continue reading
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