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Cardiff report (part three) Headlining the night was the highly tipped rockers, The Loves. With a brace of high profile support gigs under their belts (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), I was …

On the road with the Actionettes!I’m currently scoffing a delightful selection of home baked cakes as my train trundles up to my hometown of Cardiff. We’re due to arrive at …

Walking the streets of London Just spent a delightful few hours thumping the byways and alleyways of London town. I had a meeting near the Barbican and decided to take …

Testing, 1,2,3! Here’s my first attempt to upload a blog entry using vagablog, a neat app that runs on my Sony Clie. If this works, I’ll be able to update …

Stand off in Brixton The eastern part of Coldharbour Lane has been sealed off all day as police have tried to talk a woman out of her flat. Apparently, the …

New urban75 Brixton night coming up soon! Here’s the press release: come along! Offline is a new, chilled out night in downtown Brixton, run by the folks behind urban75. The …

Fuckwits of the Week: Apple Computers Apple’s homepage is currently festooned with Pepsi logos as part of their disgraceful new iTunes advertising campaign which publicly parades children ‘convicted’ of illegally …

My Shite Friday I can confidently state that this has to be one of my shittiest Fridays ever. Here’s what should have happened: Up at 9, breakfast, pack my bags, …

The Tax Return Has Left The Building! Words can’t describe what a miserable experience it was, but I finally managed to work through the hundreds of truck questions contained in …

Aaargh! The Dreary Dullness of Databases! I’ve just spent the entire day – just about every last feckin’ minute of it – trying to install the upgraded vBulletin boards on …

Aaargh Tax return hell! For freelancers there is very little worse that the annual deadly dull trawl through boxes of screwed up receipts, grubby invoices and indecipherable bank statements. I …

Text-tastic Fingers and thumbs must have been clicking like mad over the New Year when 111 million SMS messages were sent on all four main UK mobile networks between midnight …

Fans of cheap digital cameras, low res webcams, poor quality lenses with terrible lens flare will be delighted to see a huge collection of examples on this site. The only …

Hideously hungover Last night was as fabulously beer-tastic as planned, but I’m paying the full price today. Me ‘ead ‘urts! Our ambitious four point plan crumbled, as expected, quite early …

Let the NYE celebrations commence! My Stella awaits me….

Yule-tastic Frenzied Festive Feast o’Fun Things have been a little alcohol-tastic of late, so apologies for the delay in updating this blog. Last Thursday I gatecrashed the urban75 Bookgroup’s Christmas …

My drug hell Someone, somehow, somewhere spiked my drink last night and condemned me to an utterly miserable evening. One minute I was happily enjoying my Stella in a party, …

Rooted to the spot A bevy of pressing deadlines has kept me stuck to the screen all day with only my CD player/FM radio and Soulseek for company. Enjoying ‘heavy …

I like it! If you type in “Miserable failure” into google, the top result is currently this page! Talking of google, I’m delighted to say that typing in the name …

Some web picks If you’re bored at work, check out the fine collection of comic strips from a huge range of artists at Zumcomics If you’re obsessed with recent London …

Big up the National Portrait Gallery! If you’re around the West End of London, be sure to check out the fabulous ‘Circling The Square’ photography exhibition, showing pictures taken in …

Underground sites Not ‘underground’ as in groovy counter culture, but ‘underground’ as in tube trains, Underground History is stuffed full of information about long forgotten tunnels, tube lines and abandoned …

Working like a dawg! I’ve suddenly got a pile of work taking up my time – a few web projects, some consultancy stuff and a pile of writing work for …

Still recovering from the weekend! It turned out to be a bit of a corker, with some industrial sized quaffing at the most excellent People’s Republic of Disco at the …

kickass weekend! I’m pleased to report that the mighty Wales held Russia to a 0-0 draw in Moscow on Saturday – an event which immediately triggered some industrial strength quaffing. …

Come on Wales! There’s a mighty big European Championship game on tomorrow where Wales (pop 2.5 million) take on Russia (pop: 144 million). If Wales win they stand a good …

My bank sucks Barclays Bank really are an appalling shower, so I’m off to find a new bank. Trouble is, changing banks is a whole load of hassle, but I’m …

More weekend waffle Sunday was a cruel morning: I was glued to the TV at 10am to watch the mighty Wales to take on England in the Rugby World Cup. …