Chocolate and Vodka

Ever wanted to sit in on someone else's yearly job review? Well, had you been on Accordion Guy's blog this afternoon from 7pm BST, you would have. Although sans sound. Which sucked. But still, it's nice to see someone else's career and job prospects under the hammer. So nice, in fact, that we watched it […]

I appear to be having a bit of a run on visits to London at the moment. Not that I'm complaining - it's a good excuse to escape Dorset.
On 27th May I'll be going up to see digital rights expert and author of Free Culture Lawrence Lessig speak to the London International Festival of Theatre […]

I shall also be in London on the 12th May for what is turning out to be a bit of a mega blogger meet-up. I think at least 30 of the people listed as interested on the wiki page have confirmed their attendance at this do, and I suspect we may get a few more […]

Looks like I will be going up to London tomorrow to meet Doc Searls, Euan, Gary, Matt and everyone else who'll be there. I had been pleading poverty, but I had my arm twisted quite successfully by Kevin Marks this morning in #joiito. (Thanks Kevin!)
I'm looking forward to it, I must admit. Not only is […]

Guy sells wedding dress on ebay.

What would you expect from five ageing popsters whom many think should have given up the ghost years ago… preferably 20 years ago? A lacklustre performance: short, painful to watch and really a bit pitiful? If that's what you'd automatically expect from the reformed Duran Duran, then you couldn't be further from the truth.
When I […]

Off again tonight to Cardiff. Back tomorrow. Will get rained on. What happened to the wonderful, summery weather we've been having? Oh yes, that's right, moment I aim to set food outside the door, it pisses down.
Laters.

Bit knackered this evening, so have nothing more than a few stray thoughts which keep coming into my garden and pissing on the sage. Oh, wait, that's cats… Damn.
1. There should be a special level of hell reserved for spammers and credit card fraudsters. It should involve them having to sit at a computer day […]

Now that I'm not updating the Blog-City version of Chocolate and Vodka anymore it is slowly floating down through the blogosphere like a discarded feather whilst this blog on Blogware is crawling its way up the power curve, point by point, aiming for that big tall spike at the end.
Tonight I noticed that the blogs […]

Memory is synaesthetic. Sights, sounds, smells, sensations ? all can prompt the sudden and unexpected recall of an old memory, musty, frayed around the edges and long since consigned to the dustbin of your mind, or so you thought.
Prising myself away from my desk a few weeks ago, I walked the 15 minutes to our […]

From Christopher Robbins on Four Corners:
It's December. It's cold. You're using a sleeping bag. You have to wear a sweater when you bike to work in the mornings. This is Africa, what is going on?
Harmattan is going on, when the cool winds from the Desert blow in the cool, dry air, bringing a soft mist […]

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I was walking up the High Street in Winchester this afternoon when I had one of those 'Well, you don't see that every day' moments.
It was gloriously sunny, the blue sky unmarred by a single cloud. The whole world, it seemed, had come out to lounge about on the cathedral green, drink Pimms on Winchester's […]

One of my reasons for going up to London last week was to do an interview with the BBC World Service. They have a programme called The Big Question which goes out for half an hour every Saturday at 10.30am and they are putting together a piece on blogging.
A fortnight ago I spent some time […]