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Weekend updates Apologies for the slackness with the updates – things have been a tad busy. We finally moved over the rest of urban75 to its shiny, super fast home …
Weekend updates – a night at the 12 Bar Read MoreGuardian article I forgot to mention this, but I was well chuffed with this piece in the Guardian last week. “For some time, campaigning groups have used Flash movies to …
The Guardian bigs up urban75 Read MoreSome surfing… While I’m waiting for the server to be updated, I’ve been surfing around a few websites. Seeing as I can’t speak to them on the boards, here’s some …
Some websites for your perusal Read MorePart one of the big move Today, we’re moving the hyper-busy bulletin boards to their shiny new home at exonetric, with the .net part of urban75 following next week. It’s …
Part one of the big move as the urban75 bulletin boards get shifted Read MoreOver-lagered It’s been one of those weeks when there always seems to be an excellent reason for going down the pub. Wednesday was my friend Gea’s birthday drink at the …
Over-lagered in south London Read MoreLast night’s Offline club night at the Ritzy, Brixton was a corker – but Lordy – the hangover payback is fierce! Check out pictures from the night here
Post-Offline Monster Hangover Read MoreGoldie Lookin’ Chain You’ve got to check out the band’s website – it’s an absolute hoot! The Welsh hip hop band have a ‘flexible’ line-up and mainly sing about getting …
Goldie Lookin’ Chain website is a hit Read More
Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle Well, I liked the album and was well excited at the prospect of a freebie ticket for their gig at the Coronet, Elephant …
Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle Read More
Some new urban75 badges! I’m not so sure how well these will sell, but the last two could certainly be worn with pride by some members of the bulletin board …
Some new urban75 badges! Read More
A toast to Internet Magazine RIP Tonight, I ventured north to the Betsy Trotwood pub in Farringdon to bid farewell to Internet Magazine. The magazine’s been going since 1994 (it …
A toast to Internet Magazine RIP Read More
April showers… Actually, it was more like an April monsoon as a mighty thunderstorm hit London tonight, blasting our poor balcony plants with a bloom-beheading salvo of hail and heavy …
April showers… Read MoreAlbum of the week! Check out the Tom Waits approved debut album from enigmatic American country/folk songstress, Jolie Holland. Described as a ‘thrift-store poet’ singing like a cross between Billie …
Album of the week! Jolie Holland Read More
Let the fund raising begin! With money desperately needed to keep the site afloat, I’ve just announced the latest (micro) money-spinner: urban75 badges! Priced at a mere £1 for 1, …
Let the fund raising begin! Read MoreMaximum hassle I’ve had an utterly miserable time desperately trying to sort out a new home for the bandwidth-guzzling bulletin boards. Despite the generous donations being thrust my way from …
Maximum hassle – finding a home for urban75 Read MoreNow, I’m definitely not one for any of that ear-candle, chakra-chanting psychic healing tosh, but I have to say that acupuncture floats my boat. I first tried it last year …
Acupunctured! Read More
And on a happier note…. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll know that I spent an eternity mulling over what camera to buy, eventually plumping for the Minolta A2 …
Minolta A2 camera Read MoreWhat a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Apart from a quick shimmy to the Brixton Lounge for an afternoon coffee, I’ve spent the entire day trying to sort out the tricky …
What a dull, fiddly-diddly, tech-tastic day Read MoreA spectacularly shite day I’ve spent the greater part of the day suffering Bulletin Board Tech Hell, enduring so much fucking hideous 1980s ‘on hold’ music that I may as …
A spectacularly shite day Read More
Waiting for the train… The view from the platform of Lelant Station while waiting for the 15:25 branch line train to St Ives. (Pic taken with my Sony Clie PDA …
Waiting for the train… Read MoreSpring in St Ives Its narrow streets are thundering to perhaps a few more tourists than I’d like (the curse of Easter continues!), but once you get away from the …
Spring in St Ives Read More
A bad technology day This cartoon (from Rana and Peter’s birthday card to me) seems to perfectly sum up the last hour of my life, although this time the grief …
A bad technology day Read MoreMo:blogging One of the articles I wrote for Internet Magazine was a four page special on mobile blogging, explaining how you can use a Palm and a mobile phone to …
Mo:blogging on the Palm Read MoreI fucking hate Easter. It’s like four dull Sundays all shunted together into a 1950s-style weekend of cruelly curtailed drinking hours. A great mass of London buggers off leaving the …
Easter blues… Read MoreWriting and alcohol I’ve always warmed to the romantic notion of the late night writer, pumping out damning prose on a rattling typewriter, a bottle of whisky on the desk …
Writing and alcohol Read MoreA Brixton drunk night It was one of those nights that make you feel good to be alive: meeting loads of chums in your local, chewing the fat, talking shit …
A Brixton drunk night Read More
Top night! Updates from a fabulous night in the West End, watching feminist Oregon rockers, Le Tigre at the Astoria. And they rocked! We met up with urban75-ers Kea, Phototropic, …
Le Tigre at the Astoria, 2004 Read MoreApologies to urban75 bulletin board folk The boards have been going up and down faster than an over-excited pneumatic drill on amyl nitrate today, but the word is that someone …
Apologies to urban75 bulletin board folk Read More