Category: life
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The Facebook Douchebag Quotient
Facebook is my second, ok, third favourite new geekyness of the year (after my iPhone and lolcats). Despite the wonderous waste of time in hitting 'ignore' for the latest inane pirate / ninja / super-awesome-totally-better-than-the-last-super-wall oriented application I receive an invite for, it has actually provided the ability to contact people I haven't talked to for ages, and allowed me to email people who change their real email address / lose their phone more often than I complain about tourists dawdling outside of my work building trying to get into Century 21.
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Green Velvet @ Studio B (a.k.a. Mike finally has an enjoyable night out dancing in NYC)
As you may have figured out from my last post, I still have an inner raver. Yes, I know when you're 29 the thing you're supposed to be doing at midnight on Saturday is putting away the pipe and slippers and drinking a nice mug of warm cocoa before tucking in for the evening. But that's not for me.
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Virgin Festival 2007 in Baltimore
Last night I got back very late (about 3am) from the Virgin music Festival in Baltimore. Here's a write-up... -
July 7th - 2 years on
Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of the July 7th London bombings. For those new to my blog, you probably don't know that I was on one of the trains that was bombed, thankfully far enough away not to have been injured. I wrote about my original experiences after the day here and my experiences of the first anniversary here.
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iPhone night in NYC
It's the night a million Mac fans have been waiting for - the launch of the iPhone.
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It's not beer, it's....
Coors Light could be in fact described as a:
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A very English beatbox
No break of course would be complete without a bit of a shuffle, so for this we're going to use some household white noise. You can get this from your TV. I got mine from Sainsbury's.
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Flickr (finally) gets a decent slideshow
One of the very few things about Flickr that's not so great is that the slideshow feature is poor at best. With all the fancy usability-enhanced goodness of my photo-website of choice, the slideshow's tiny pictures, no descriptions and just sheer, well 2003-ness is just shockingly bad.
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April '07 Music purchases
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to buying music. Despite the rather excessive amounts of technology infiltrating my lifestyle, I still refuse to buy music online. Never mind the crippling DRM, nor the fact that the quality isn't as good, I like the ritual of opening up the wrapping, looking at the sleeve notes, and all that. So every now and then I'll buy a whole bunch of new records from Amazon or even do the very unfashionable thing of going to a music store.
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Monkey Business?
Being the Britpop fanboy that I am, I have a few albums by various Blur spin-offs, namely Gorillaz, Graham Coxon and The Good, The Bad and The Queen. One strange thing about this: in my iTunes library of more than 200 albums, these 3 all appear next to each other in my standard sorting view. Curious...
