Chocolate and Vodka

So I bought a bottle of Danzka vodka a while back. I can't actually remember when or where, but it's been sitting in my freezer unopened for quite a long time. Tonight, having recently finished off my mead and some lovely port, we decided to open the Danzka.
Then we wished we hadn't.
It's quite a harsh […]

As usual for bank holidays, T'Other has to work. At least it was a 12 - 8 shift, so we got to laze about this morning and I could pretend for a few hours that it was going to be a proper bank holiday. But now T'Other is slaving away over a hot radio show, […]

Ok, so I'm back from Xtech and Amsterdam, and glad to be home with my T'Other.
It was a lot of fun being at Xtech - lots of hanging out with geeks and talking about things that are generally outside of my normal realm of experience. I like. I like having my brain stretched a bit. […]

I love it when my job results in me having to watch things like this.

So at the moment I'm in Amsterdam. Really enjoying the Xtech conference on the one hand, but really struggling on the other. I did something today I have never done before, and I'm feeling pretty crappy about it. I committed to moderating a session, but I complete forgot about it. I hate letting people down […]

Sitting at Heathrow, minding my own beeswax when I get a text from T'Other. The new MacBook is out. A replacement for the iBook, it goes five times faster, has at last audio in/out, a built in iSight camera and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. And at a snip of a price.
I just […]

Off now to Amsterdam, to the Xtech conference where I am going to be talking about ORG and digital rights. Been a bit of a busy few weeks lately but hoping for a quieter week next week, when I hope to get to write some of the blog posts that have been piling up in […]

(Started writing this on Sunday night, but didn't get the chance to finish it yesterday.)
Sitting in the crappy bit of Warsaw airport - Terminal Etiude, where EasyJet fly from - waiting for our flight home. The trip has been just great, excepting a slight bout of sunstroke on Saturday (I'm a fragile little thing), and […]

I love ads that riff off other ads. This one is just ace. (Thanks Kevin!)

So T'Other and I are off to Warsaw today for the EBU Radio News conference. I'm very excited because I've never been to Poland before. However, this trip is not without its ironies. I've let my Polish learning go, so am entirely linguistically challenged and my phrase book is still in Dorset so I am […]

So T'Other and I had a shitty week last week - if you want to know why, then just read this post at Strange Attractor for an insight. We really needed a break by the time Friday came, so after a lovely dinner out with Michael Tippett from NowPublic (which apparently still gets people visiting […]

O'n i'n meddwl am yr iaith Gymraeg wythnos diwetha. O'n i'n siarad â'r pobl Global Voices, ac o'n i'n mwddwl bod rhaid inni wneud mwy efo'r we ar gyfer iaith. Ond dwi'm yn gwybod beth sydd ar gael nawr. Felly dw i wedi dechrau tudalen newydd ar fy wici CMC i gasglu gwefannau defynddiol i […]

Blog-City, the blog host I used for the second incarnation of Chocolate and Vodka (after Blogger went all crap) have summarily killed my archives. I have the data, but no way to import it into Blogware, or to make it publicly available, so I am a bit peeved that a chunk of my online past […]

At the earliest opportunity, I must attend Mr Paul A Youngs Fine Chocolate Emporium. OK, so it isn't actually called an emporium, but it should be. I've never met Paul, but he's a friend of various friends, so I shall be making my way there to taste his very fine chocolate as soon as I […]

Er… or something.
It appears that somewhere in the world, the cool hip-hop lovin' kids are impressing their homies by wearing my name emblazoned across their chest/back. Wow, guys, I'm touched! (Not like that, you cheeky little monkeys!)

And what's better, you can buy this stuff online! Cool!!