It hadn't really occurred to me to do this, as it seemed like something of a mammoth task, until I chanced upon some message board discussion of the infamous just-published NME list. More out of curiosity than anything, I then decided to see if I could put one together - and it turned out to be rather simple, going through every album in my iTunes ( Read more... )

Yes, it's still going on. As you can see below, the glory of the handlebar moustache is ON ITS WAY, if only I could get the little bits at the side of my lips to grow and join up the top and bottom halves properly. Anyway, if you're interested in helping out the good cause that I'm doing it for, then remember my donation page is here. And if you're ( Read more... )

It's customary of me (to, for those who've known me a while, a probably quite tedious extent) to draw attention to this song on this date... criminally underheard, it's one of my favourite songs of all time and really should have been a huge hit (I drunkenly rambled on at Fruitbat of Carter on that very subject one night in Brixton, to my ( Read more... )

So, yes. Since I was already shaving my (not-so-lustrous) beard off on the 31st October in order to do this, it was pointed out to me that it might be an idea to use my newly-clean face to sign up for Movember, an initiative in which fellers spend the month of November growing a moustache and raising donations to help fight and raise awareness of ( Read more... )

What? Surely not some actual work news to report on my workblog? Yup, that's right. This last week has been a pretty good one for my writing, as it turns out, so hopefully LJ readers will forgive this crossposted bit of indulgence as I plug Stuff What I Now Have In The Shops.


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Phew. After much technical jiggerypokery, I now have the entire iTunes library from my old (nearly dead) laptop - song ratings and playcounts and album art and all - consolidated onto my chunkyhuge external drive, and then being channelled through my netbook onto both my iPod (whole music library, but no video, syncing automatically) and iPhone ( ( Read more... )

Wow :


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World exclusive image!


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Before the big reorganising/reboxing :


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