Archive for 2009

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One positive aspect of getting an Android smart phone, i.e. of being online anywhere/anytime, is that I can read Neil Gaiman’s ever entertaining Twitter feed while sleep-walking home from a night out. A corollary of this is that I can then tweet to my own Twitter feed, too. Which I do.
It’s an interesting technosocial experiment [...]

Ode to a heroic new mobile phone

I finally gave in to the 21th century a few weeks ago and bought a smart phone. A very smart phone. It goes by the grandiose name of HTC Hero, although T-Mobile somewhat confusingly sells it under the G2 Touch moniker, which is not to be confused with the T-Mobile myTouch 3G (originally HTC Magic), [...]

Pagan laser festivities with Fever Ray

Incense was burning at the front of the stage while two sharp green laser rays cut through the thick fog, pulsating along the sinister, industrial purring of “If I had a Heart” that preceded Fever Ray’s arrival, last Thursday at Shepherds Bush Empire. The electronic festivities perfectly blend with the odd decoration on stage — [...]

Adieu Jasmin

We will miss you…

a princess…, by theefer

… went to sleep…, by theefer

forever… farewell Jasmin, by theefer

Night underground at the Shunt

Having unexpectedly survived the Friday evening at the pub with my colleagues, I set off on Saturday evening to have dinner with friends at David’s place, in Elephant & Castle (which is officially the best name ever).
Once all the great food and wine and whiskey were over, we left to find a floor to dance [...]

London in white

As I was saying in yesterday’s post, it has been snowing last night.
Well it turns out it hasn’t stopped, and it brought pretty much the whole city of London down to a halt. Not that we’re anywhere near some “Day After Tomorrow” scenario with liners ships unexpectedly showing up around Oxford Circus. It is a [...]

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