November 28, 2011
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I’ve enjoyed having VivID Lounge right below where I live. It was like having a local pub (I assume) but it was a European styled lounge. However there were problems right from the start and it looks like its the end of … Continue reading
November 28, 2011
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I watch a lot of films (and that doesn’t even include the ones in the cinema)… So in my usual style, here’s a list of ones you may have missed (also made a Top10 list), which are certainly worth watching… I’m … Continue reading
November 27, 2011
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Simon Lumb and Aden Davies shared Russell Davis’s post about how to be interesting… He makes two assumptions… The way to be interesting is to be interested. You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing … Continue reading
November 25, 2011
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Wednesday we had a very successful night of werewolf… I didn’t have my DSLR with me, so I only captured a few low rez photos of the action. Almost everything just worked… Working with Larkin About (remember that ARG) was a … Continue reading
November 24, 2011
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We (me, josh and nathan rae) did our first live Techgrumps on Sunday 20th November… Live from VivID Lounge… Its also a Manchester only affair, as you’d expect with it being LIVE… Ian,Josh and guest Nathan eat breakfast while waxing lyrical… about exploring Sci-Fi elitism … Continue reading
November 23, 2011
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Found via Herb Kim, theres lots more analysis and links to others on the Business Insider
November 21, 2011
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The Hodge ping’ed me on gtalk today and pointed me at a hack He and Caius had done for Honda Hack day Its called I am, I do… What is this? I am, I do is a user edited database of stories, … Continue reading
November 20, 2011
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For those who can’t read the poll, 100 people answered from around the world via Qriously the question of who should pay on the first date? Something I talked at length about before. 60% said the man should pay on the first … Continue reading
November 20, 2011
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Theres quite a bit of things happening to the retail park right next to New Islington… But someone clued me into a new venture called the circus house which started just 2 days ago. The Circus house is the embodied dream … Continue reading
November 20, 2011
by ianforrester
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Derren Brown isn’t a household name outside the UK, no idea why… but he recently did a excellent show in the conclusion to his experiments series… In the show he slowly convinces a town that a statute in a local public garden … Continue reading
November 16, 2011
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I’ve said nothing about the #occupy movement… The last #smc_mcr was all about #occupy and raised a ton of interesting debate, which I’ve seen played out elsewhere. One of the best observers of the occupy movement I’ve seen is from … Continue reading
November 16, 2011
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OMG!Ubuntu is running a poll on what desktop environment linux users are using… The results are actually quite surprising on two counts… Gnome 3 is actually quite high with over 28% of the vote (over 4000 users). Even though you … Continue reading
November 14, 2011
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One of the killer ideas which came out of the Mozilla Festival in the Dj challenge was the idea of Stem based mixing… The idea is great and I think there’s plenty of momentum behind it. Daniel James and Fin Stamp worked … Continue reading
November 14, 2011
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My last blog post about the late Steve Jobs caused quite a stir but to defend my thoughts just this once… I’m not the only one saying could be seen as unpopular things about the late Jobs. In the The … Continue reading
November 8, 2011
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I was very excited to invited to the Mozilla Festival which this year was in London. Not only that, it was in South East London. The Mozilla Festival use to be the Drumbeat Festival but got a rename. The event … Continue reading