Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Identified the issue. Small broken wire where a fuse should be.

In what seems to me to be quite an obvious design floor, whoever built my flat saw fit to make the electricity supply rely on passing through several tiny pieces of wire before being routed to my lights, fridge and more importantly - broadband router. Some of these wires have unsurprisingly not been able to cope with the vast quantities of electricity needed to power the various electronic items I left on overnight and have spontaneously combusted. The big question on my mind now is, will paperclips be an adequate or indeed more suitable substitute? Move over Edison, I'm in charge now.

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Friday, 14 January 2011

Revolution in Tunisia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12195025

Incredible scenes of revolution in Tunisia. Also incredible that it was initiated by material on wikileaks.com and that the people of Tunisia harnessed the power and political pressure of the world by spreading their message through social media. It turns out that the revolution will be televised afterall, and tweeted, and blogged, and liked. Here's to the restoration of peace and stability under a freely-elected democratic regime.

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Thursday, 13 January 2011

There's a buzz of excitement around the RG office right now

We've only got a Phil "the power" Taylor authentic dartboard!

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Friday, 31 December 2010

Congratulations to Polyphony Digital

Not only have you managed to develop the slowest loading game that I've had the misfortune of playing since I upgraded from the ZX Spectrum in 1989 but you've also succeeded in developing the world's worst operating system in the world, ever.

:slow clap: Well done Sirs, well done

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Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Jon Newman's made me an emo

Been sitting next to Jon Newman at work for a few months now and loving every minute of it, but I think he may have turned me into some sort of emo. Just loving thoughtful, melodic, acousticy, prolific sounds right now.
Princess Sophie introduced me to Ellie Goulding at the weekend and I just cant get enough of her. Incredible voice, technically amazing, not a huge fan of her album but the acoustic stuff on Youtube is off the chart. I'm guessing that guitar, piano and vox were what she did before the label got hold of her and ruined it all with huge production.
Anyway, enough ranting - check this out:

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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Ladies & gentleman I give you Finley Quaye

How about you face the audience who have paid £10 a go to see you rather than the angled wedge who is telling you your conga player can't play in time.

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