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August 2007 Archives
A Throw of Dice
I saw "A Throw of Dice" in the open air of Trafalgar Square last night, accompanied by a live soundtrack composed and performed by Nitin Sawhney and the London Symphony Orchestra....
Posted on August 31, 2007 9:51 AM |
Guardian Newsroom - Martin Rowson
I don't want to come across like a company man, but I feel the need to recommend a rather special serrvice provided by The Guardian to employees and the public alike. The Guardian Newsroom is a publicly accessible exhibition centre and archive situated directly opposite the Guardian's offcies in Farringdon. ...
Posted on August 28, 2007 1:11 PM |
Stu-Stu-Studio
I paid a visit to the BFI Southbank's* new Studio screening room last week. It utilises digital projecction, and as such is able to show vast numbers of films from the BFI's archive....
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:12 AM |
Green Man
Green Man proved to be, for the second year running, my music event of the year. Situated in gorgeous countryside at the foot of the Brecon Beacons, even the dismal Welsh weather and almost doubling the crowd capacity couldn't spoil the idyllic musical enclave....
Posted on August 23, 2007 11:09 PM |
Where you bin?
I bin at Bincho Yakatori! It's a new Japanese restaurant in the Oxo building, with plenty of proper charcoal barbecue action, stone cold saki and enough chicken gizzards to scare anyone!...
Posted on August 16, 2007 1:39 PM |
Apple 's slick new keyboards - they'll make you type extra sexy......
Posted on August 13, 2007 11:27 PM |
Ark Party - Costumed Disco Cruise
Check out my colleague's totally freakin' mental party - it's a costumed disco boat cruise...
Posted on August 9, 2007 2:20 PM |
Fat Barry Bats A Fat One
The fat baseball player Barry Bonds has now scored 756 home runs and holds the all-time record for the most home runs any one player has scored in their career, ever....
Posted on August 9, 2007 12:23 AM |
Rogue economist turns rogue terrorist?
If you've read Freakonomics then you'll already know about Levitt & Dubner's groundbreaking economic approach to misunderstood real-world issues. If not, the method is simple - amass as much data as possible around a subject and apply in providing an economic answer to a seemingly obvious question....
Posted on August 8, 2007 11:48 PM |
A bit of french - Keren Ann at the Arts Theatre
The Arts Theatre is an unpromising venue for someone anticipating Keren Ann's sultry, smoky, after-hours vibe. Yes, it's tiny, but something about the low ceiling, the creaky seating, the unimaginative lighting means it lacks intimacy....
Posted on August 2, 2007 10:10 PM |
Strictly for nerds - Using Putty Private keys on Mac OS X
Anyone who has worked with me will know about my lifelong avowed hatred of version control sytems. The problem isn't the concept of version control itself, just awful implementatons and usage of it....
Posted on August 1, 2007 11:41 AM | Tagged with: aptana,nerd,ssh,subclipse,versioncontrol
