Category: life
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Minuit - The Guards Themselves
One of the things I enjoyed about my time living in New Zealand was the music scene there. Since NZ is so isolated (geographically at least) from the rest of the world, they have a somewhat alternative way of doing things when it comes to bands. People there have this quaint thought (!) that its actually quite nice to go and see your favourite bands play live, and not have to be a million rows back in the crowd, or have to ring Ticketmaster like crazy at 9am on the day the tickets come out, or have to go cap in hand to a less than celubrious chap shouting 'Buying! Selling!' outside the venue on the night of the gig. Add this to the fact that not that many international bands come a-visiting, and its not surprising that you find NZ makes its own music scene.
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July 7th - 1 year on
Today is the first anniversary of the London Bombings. As I blogged a year ago I was on one of the trains that was bombed, and being involved with this event has unsurprisingly had quite an effect on me and my family.
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A peace-sign
I'm British, working in America, for a German company, and part of my team is in Russia. I reckon if I told someone 20 years ago that this might happen in 20 year's time, I'd probably have been thrown in a loony bin.
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You know you're starting to turn american when...
... you're walking down the street, see the number '256', and in your head you vocalise it as 'two fifty-six'. It's a long and slippery slope...
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Farewell Top of the Pops
It was with some sadness today that I read that the BBC's weekly music show, Top of the Pops, is to end its run of 42 years.
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Picasa Web - Now I'm glad I didn't bother with Flickr
For a while now I've been a little envious of people using Flickr to have fancy photo galleries online. I've almost used it a couple of times, but for me the whole idea of using a web site to manage pictures just didn't work. I've used Picasa as my photo library and I wasn't prepared to move away from a desktop-based client to handle my (more than 1GB worth of) digital photos.
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Life in New York
Hi - welcome to my new Life blog! I'm planning on updating this semi regularly with various interesting snippetts on life in the Big Apple.
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All Change Again Part 1 - Goodbye London, Hello New York City
A year has passed since I moved back from New Zealand which can only mean one thing - its time for me to leave London again! Today I return to the USA, after living there 2 1/2 years ago. Back then I wrote I definitely hope to live in NYC for some period of my life and that is exactly what I'm doing.
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Madrid and Photos
Last weekend I visited Spain for first time by taking a short trip to Madrid. It was really good to get away for a few days. Especially good was the food, weather and extrememly civilised drinking hours! (i.e. there aren't any, as far I could tell)
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Live 8 and Pink Floyd
The last few weeks haven't been all bad. In fact they've been a bit of a rollercoaster. Just 5 days before being on the bombed Aldgate train I settled in for the day at a mate's house to watch complete coverage of the London Live 8 concert.