by | Feb 12, 2004 | Uncategorized

So, here I was plan­ning to spend the even­ing work­ing and then I made the mis­take of catch­ing up on LJ… there went a few hours. I had a job inter­view with Lonely Planet today which went quite well, I think. It does­n’t pay all that well,...

What I did on my weekend…

by | Feb 8, 2004 | Uncategorized

Just the sort of week­end I’d hoped for. After a great day Friday at the X|Media|Lab con­fer­ence, went for a drink with Amanda Wise, an old acquaint­ance from the a early days of my career (those who were around at the time: she worked at Radi­ant with...

Good Vibrations, old friends and new opportunities

by | Feb 1, 2004 | Uncategorized

Music is an intense gift to me, as the script from _Almost Famous_ would have it, “vast scenic rituals and angelic choirs in your brain”. There have been times in my life where I haven’t appre­ci­ated it as much as I ought or where I’ve used it to assuage...

No War! No jailtime for Will & Dave!

by | Jan 30, 2004 | Uncategorized

I spent today at the Down­ing Centre court help­ing a friend through the sen­ten­cing of her part­ner, Dave Bur­gess of No War painted on the Opera House fame. He and sci­ent­ist Will Saun­ders received 9 months’ peri­odic deten­tion and have to pay an...