Tim and I went to visit legendary UK jazz drummer Tony Levin at his home in Church Stretton today. We’re keen to work with him on an online jazz project, and this was an initial conversation to get the ball rolling. Tony runs a semi-regular jazz club at the Patrick Kavanagh pub in Moseley, where [...]
Categories: Music,Photography,Travel
Tagged: Internet, jazz, leica, Music, Photography, sculpture, Travel
Paul of Inglesby Greenhow It occurs to me that I’ve been doing things online longer than most people I know. I was involved in bulletin boards back in the early 1990s, was a keen user of Usenet, and had a website up and running as early as 1995. It was around that time that I [...]
Categories: Travel
Go cat plays Go I played Go against Dan again last night. I lost quite catastrophically. The less said about that, the better. But his cat wanted to get into the game. There’s a LOLcat waiting to happen, I thought – and took some photos. But I’m coming up blank on captions. Ideas? Hury Up! [...]
Bobbie and I went with Craig to a great gig last night. I was already a fan of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and have one of their albums, but I was completely blown away by just how tight this band was. It was like going to see the JBs on a good night. Just [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: Birmingham, Music
I had the distinct privelege of being with Clutch when he opened a 40 year-old bottle of Longmorn. He’s following this up with a trip to London to watch his fiancee run the Marathon, then his wedding in Scotland, his birthday, and a month in New Zealand on honeymoon. It’s sad to think they’ll all [...]
Categories: Whisky
Tagged: Whisky
Turns out I’ve been blogging for six years today. I started out with the rather immodest title ‘DubberNews’ and quickly shifted it to ‘The Wireless’, which is what it remained for nearly 5 years. Out of interest, here’s something I wrote on this day in 2002 on that blog. Monday, April 08, 2002 It’s nice [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Internet
I’ve got a personal blog, and I tend to write things that are personally significant or important in it (at least, they seem that way to me). You’re reading it now. I also use Twitter, and that’s a sort of micro-blogging thing: What am I doing right now, in 140 characters or less? I can [...]
Categories: New Zealand
Tagged: Internet, New Zealand, Personal
But our friend Collette is doing it for a good cause. Which is kind of what she does. Next weekend, she’s doing the London Marathon to raise money for Shenpen UK, a charity that supports the Tibetan people and culture in exile. You can go and support Collette at her website (and listen to the [...]
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Tagged: Personal
I played a Game of Go with my friend Dan last night. He’s slightly better at it than I am, so although he kindly made a few silly mistakes that allowed me to gain some advantage around the edges, he pretty much took out the centre of the board and ran away with the game. [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Games,Whisky
Tagged: Birmingham, Games, Whisky
There’s a Bloggers Conference in Chicago next month called SOBCon. To be honest, I’m not even sure what it stands for though I think I can figure out the ‘B’ and the ‘Con’… UPDATE: I just looked it up. It stands for Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference, apparently. It’s billed as ‘Business School for Bloggers’ [...]
Categories: Travel
