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Stadium gigs

So it seems that I have been seriously underestimating stadium gigs as ways of enjoying the experience of music. Having pretty much exclusively gone to sub 1k capacity venues for the last 15 years it seems that stadiums are not just less personal, less intimate, but some different, something more than the parts.  Apparently my [...]

poker face

Last night I hosted an evening of poker at my make shift casino.  There were not one, but two, curries with ample naan and chapatti.  There was music taken from Poker Lounge (Very Best in Poker & Casino Music) and there were some little crib sheets to help people work out the value of their [...]

ideas worth spreading

One of the most exciting things about any sort of community is the opportunity to learn from others.  Before schools, universities, libraries, books and the internet; this was pretty much the only way we could learn anything.
Today we live in a world in which knowledge has become widely available, but a caveat is that the [...]

inconvenient or deadly?

Around this time of the year in 2006 - three years ago - Al Gore brought An Inconvenient Truth to the screen.  I find it hard to explain why it has taken me three years to see it.  Maybe it was because the Dark Knight was more exciting or Stardust was more romantic; maybe it [...]

facelift

After the work on the garden last week I decided to overhaul my blog.  It was time for it to have a bit of a facelift so in combination with a wordpress upgrade an the use of the the swiss army knife theme called Atahualpa: here we are.
Still needs a little bit of tweaking, but I’m [...]