Through a series of unusual and interesting connections today, I’ve been offered a ride on the Goodyear Blimp on Monday. This Monday coming. I’m really incredibly excited about that. Can’t wait. There’s just one hitch though – it’s taking off from a field in Essex, and it’s nowhere near anything remotely resembling public transportation. In [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: blimp, favour, opportunity, Travel
I was on the way back from the conference in London today, when the announcement came that the train was being diverted. If we wanted to carry on to Birmingham New St, we could stay on, and have an extra 90 minute journey that took us through Stafford, or we could get off at Nuneaton, [...]
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Photo by Infodad So, that’s it then. The end of 2009. Looking back over the notes, this was a pretty good year, and since I’ve blogged a fair bit of it (though with some significant gaps – must watch that in 2010), I thought I’d do a quick wrap-up of some of the highlights. But [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Family,New Zealand,Technology,Travel,Whisky
I’ve been travelling a lot in Europe recently, and I’ve come to the conclusion that making a great, vibrant, creative city is really, really simple. What follows is my 5-step plan to better cities. If you get these things right, ALL else will follow.
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Tagged: Bicycle, Birmingham, How to Fix Cities, Idea, Travel
Ard & Lykle at the New Music Labs office. I’m spending this morning working in the office of New Music Labs, Lopend Vuur and De Ondernemers – three inter-related businesses in online music, design and promotion based in Groningen in the North of Holland. I’m over here to consult and speak at the Academy of [...]
Categories: Travel
Clutch and I went to the Isle of Jura over the long weekend on a bit of a adventure. All the details are over at the Dubber & Clutch blog, complete with videos and interviews, tasting notes and stories. But I thought you might be interested in some holiday snaps. They look quite good if [...]
I’ve taken this week off work to help Jake study for his GCSE exams. He’s had a few already, but he has this week off and then some major exams coming up, so I thought this would be a good chance to sit at the dining room table with him, supervise and give him a [...]
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River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
I know I’ve been travelling a fair bit recently – and I haven’t even said anything about Copenhagen here yet, which is where I was earlier in the week – but for reasons of procrastination, I needed to get out of the house today, and I remembered to get out my Flip camera this time. [...]
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I’m back from New Zealand, where I had a fantastic time doing all sorts of interesting things. I gave two presentations, did three radio shows, met up with friends and family, attended a couple of industry events, visited several cafes, interviewed half a dozen interesting people – and worked out the structure, treatment, instrumentation and [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Photography,Travel
Tagged: New Zealand, Photography, Seminar, Travel
