Archive for April, 2009

Westwood

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

I am a fan of the truly odd Radio 1 DJ and Pimp My Ride UK presenter Tim Westwood, and this has only been enhanced by the wonderful glimpse of his life you get from his Twitter. I’ve collected some of my favourite moments:
Needed to wash the curtains – they’ve all shrunk by a foot! [...]

8tracks

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Inspired by Warren Ellis, I’ve been playing with an online playlist/mp3 type doobry called 8tracks. It’s sort of like muxtapes if you recall that, not sure how long it’ll last before being shut down, but fun for sticking together playlists for people. In the spirit of things I’ve put up a fairly random collection of [...]

Dutch PHP Conference

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

For those with staff development money to burn and who fancy some conference action, I’m speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference in June, on Document Classification in PHP (the whole conference is in English by the by). The line up is pretty impressive this year, with three tracks over two days and being in Amsterdam [...]

Rupert – Just Woke Up

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Rupert is the rapper formerly known as Rup, and last weekend I had the pleasure of getting an excellent package containing his latest CD, a Naim 7″, and some sort of orange-y sweet (since consumed).
I’ve been into Rup’s stuff for a while, since hearing (possibly on Excalibur’s show, possibly on the Dugout) Angels & Devils, [...]