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Ten Things I Liked About The Folk Festival This Year

Ah, another year, another Cambridge Folk Festival. By our best estimates, our 18th year running, and the 13th of living directly opposite the venue, which ...

Half Man Half Biscuit, The Junction, Cambridge review

Pic: @baggieboy61 Great gig. More - much more - at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project gig review section. There was at least one song ...

6Music: get it while it lasts

I don't hold out much hope for 6Music. David Hepworth quotes Bob Harris as saying: "It's my experience that when management has decided to do ...

Cambridge University 800th Anniversary Finale Lightshow

The university lit up two of its most famous buildings this weekend - Kings College and The Senate House - with a lightshow created by ...

People don’t read any more

I was disappointed enough that I couldn't think of a single new album which excited me in 2009. But it was even more alarming to ...

I can’t escape (my music in 2009)

Thanks to @borborygmus for reminding me that my musical review of 2009 is constantly being written on my Last.fm page, and whatever I claim to ...

Building a tiny bookcase/bookshelf hi-fi

OK, here’s the task: I wanted to build a discreet music system to go in a room with a bookcase, using an old third-generation iPod from about 2004, whose battery had long since died but which worked perfectly sitting in its original dock. The challenge was to make use of two nice Gale speakers, which [...]

First thoughts on the iPad

I’ve had my Apple iPad for 48 hours now, and here are a few observations on what’s happened so far. It’s extremely covetable. The only person outside of the family who’s seen it took about ten seconds to decide she wanted one. And she’s a completely IT-illiterate (but smart) mother of two, who wouldn’t know [...]

Texaco Championship Fantasy Football 2010/2011

Woo-Hoo. Texaco Fantasy Football is back for the Championship 2010/2011 season. Do join! Picking a team takes 5-10 minutes and is free. You can then also join in individual leagues, and I’ve got two tell you about: 1. ITFC Twitterati. This is for regular #itfc Tweeters. Please pick a team name which relates to your [...]

I’d rather have listened to James Corden

Those who can, do. Those who can’t get a cushy job in the TV studio. Isn’t it odd that Danny Baker’s few minutes on Match of the Day became for some people one of the most abiding memories of the World Cup? It wasn’t as if we didn’t already know what a strange, detached bubble [...]

Photo highlights of our Canadian holiday

Alex sitting on the glass floor of the Calgary Tower observation deck Taking the gondola ride up Sulphur Mountain in Banff Looking up at the Athabasca Glacier coming down from the Columbia Icefields Canoeing on Ice-blue Lake Louise Front section of the Rocky Mountaineer train Inside the double-deck section of the train Helicopter ride over [...]

New website for Essex golf teacher

I just made a one-page website for Roger Gray, who offers golf lessons in Brentwood. Just a sort of online business card really. I hope it helps people find him, he’s a great guy and deserves to be every bit as busy as he is.