For a once keen gig goer, gigs have become more like buses for me of late; nothing for ages then an embarrassment of riches. Not like London buses ever approach anything like riches, although they are frequently quite an embarrassment.
Anyway, after the wonders of Gong at the Meltdown festival I went to see the astounding [...]
Entries from June 2008
Gigs and misses
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
What’s happened to Firefox 2?
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
I got very excited about Firefox 3, so much so in fact that I installed it on my work PC and the virtual PC it runs which I use to test against IE6 and to do other potentially systems/settings-trashing things. Whoops. Anyway, it is still possible to download archived versions of Firefox if you do [...]
Tags: firefox · web design · web development
You never blow yr trip forever
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
This weekend I saw the wonderful Gong playing at Massive Attack’s Meltdown festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. What started as a nostalgic indulgence of my misspent teenage years listening to early 70s prog and psyc ended up with me totally transfixed by a band led by a 70 year old man in a red-sequined [...]
OU dos and don’ts
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m about halfway through my OU creative writing course (Start Writing Fiction) which I signed up for kind of by accident a few months back. So, here are some things that I’ve now learned you should do and what you should not do when doing this kind of distance learning thing.
Do:
Make sure you have some [...]
Comments on this blog
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Believe it or not, there are some comments to posts on this blog. I’ve only just realised that they weren’t actually showing, and if people did want to leave a comment, the link they followed didn’t let them actually write anything.
I’ve fixed this problem and thought I’d turned off the settings that made people register [...]






