Ten years ago today, our friends and families were waking to some horrendous news and gut-wrenching unknowns about Claire and I. Owing to a twist of geography and who knows what else, today we are waking safe at home – thankful and perplexed.
Thinking of those who were not so lucky.
Back in the day, my friends and I used to share mix-tapes. Many of which I still have – kept in an old school trunk – unable to listen to them due to a backwards compatibility error (I don’t have a working tape player), this trunk holds many musical memories. But, I digress, the point being sharing music was a great thing to do. And now we can again, with muxtape.com. Today I’ve been listening to a selection of tracks put together by a friend who has just returned from Kinshasa and what a joy it has been to listen to music like this again. I’d previously browsed through a few other people’s Muxtapes but I didn’t know them – there’s something very nice about knowing who has put it together, so thank you Fred! Any more Muxtape suggestions?
I’ve just taken a quick look at friendfeed.com – it’s basically a lifestream service, where people can aggregate and publish their web-lives. It’s done rather nicely – enabling you to quickly create your own lifestream from various feeds (here’s mine) and not too different in look to the lifestream I quickly hacked together with pipes – but done way better and on a grand scale! You can also track friends’ feeds easily too, making it a much more two-way tool than others out there – say Tumblr, for example, which publishes your combined feeds. There’s definitely a need for this – with the whole micro-blogging/twitter/lifestream thing, it is useful to show this data in one place and provides an excellent way for potential stalkers to gather all their up-to-the-minute information on a particular target in one easily digestible feed 😉
24 ways to impress your friends is back for the third year running. It’s like a web geeks advent calendar and I’m impressed.
bigging up the hastings massive – check this out from little miss hangover. nuff respect miss (or should that be ellie?)
I like england in the summer.
this way please… go check it out, fred’s been busy.
EDIT: more here
in the true community spirit of the blogging world, i introduce to you the one and only pnoid. some of you may know of our illustrious protector of french world wealth from his blagger.com reviews. i can only say – the world would be a dark place without this man to protect us and other potential blagees.
Back from the States after a hectic couple of weeks with Claire, Felix, Phil and Cab blundering about New York and its environ. Ashley is now married. Phil is now thirty. And our livers are all slightly more damaged than before we left. Some classic photos – especially from the tubing.
And now we are moving house – tomorrow! Nothing is packed. London here I come.
All change… We’re moving back to London. Change is good, I keep telling myself. Oh yes – no looking back, keep on trucking. And it’s a lovely flat we’re moving to. And that daily commute I loathed so much (how can network south east trains be so crap?) will be a thing of the past. But I can’t help feeling sad for leaving Brighton. It’s a lovely place, especially in the Summer. I’ll be back.
Well. The people I work for have been bought out and we’re all off to chase the bright lights of the big smoke. No more half-asleep, lazy strolls down the hill to work in the morning for me then. Oh no. Instead I’ll be merrily skipping down the hill to catch the 7.17am sharp to join countless thousands rejoice in the daily commute to London. Wicked.
While I’m recovering from my ACL reconscruction operation, I might as well put some time into this site. So here’s the new design, using XHTML and CSS. A lot is still under construction and probably always will be…
Anyway – feel free to check out the different sections. I try to keep the photos up-to-date but you know how it is – there’s new photos from Belize just up.
Oh and why don’t you see what happened at the latest G8 summit in Evian, France …
Well – this weekend saw the biggest ever peace demonstrations in London » StopWar.org some people are saying there were 2 million protesting. It sure was busy – took us the best part of 4 hours to get from Parliament Square to Hyde Park. Great atmosphere – photos soon.