I was having a great conversation with Ben Cummins yesterday. He made a comment which got me thinking - "I can't wait to see what your Utrophia page will look like".

I should explain. Utrophia is an arts collective. People who make traditional music, images and sculpture. But who also push the boundaries and discover new artforms - such as the ( Read more... )

Music
So many gigs, so little time. At the moment, my diary is as follows:

• 21/1 Songbird
• 25/1 Glee Club
• 26/1 Bearspace
• 27/1 Temperatures at Temporary Contemporary
• 1/2 Mon Fio

On long jet flights, sleep lots. I've tried all sorts of strategies. And its the only one that works. Be well rested when you get on the flight. Eat to get drowsy. Sleep and rest the entire flight. Don't watch the rubbish movies. Don't chat, don't do work. Rest lots when you arrive. Life would have been much simpler had I known that at the start of ( Read more... )

Christmas went pretty well. I've noticed over the years that all the presents I get for other people are, in my opinion, cool presents. So I've got all this cool stuff, and what do I do? Give it away. Well this year was a little different. If I found stuff particularly cool, I bought one extra for me. So not only did I get loads of cool stuff, but ( Read more... )

After many day of calendar watching, the date of the 7 Seconds of Love gig arrived. Paul was a fellow fan, so he came down to London, and we set off together.

I always think that life is what you make it. A silly band is enhanced by a silly audience. With the help of Inkscape, some craft card, double sided sticky tape and string, I had myself a ( Read more... )

Okay - I've caught the MMORPG bug. Sorta.

I was looking around for whats new in interesting games, and The Kingdom of Loathing came up. It looks horribly thrown together, but it quickly becomes clear that its a really well balanced game, with lots to do. It also has a rather wonderful feature - you can't play it all day. The writing is excellent ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is going to be my last Mobile Clubbing of the year. I started in April, and that activity has given me much benefit personally and socially, whilst cheering up a lot of bemused bystanders along the way ( Read more... )

Now I've got my server up and running, there are a few issues left for it to solve ( Read more... )

The web server is working a treat. Its running phpBB faultlessly, and its going to be running PhpWiki today. The team using the server has a whole heap of documentation to write, and I reckon a wiki will get the job done in no time. Next up is getting my head around how these two apps work. I have bigger plans for this server, and I'm going to have ( Read more... )

I own a Buffalo Linkstation. Its always on - my print server and file server. So when a request came up to host a private web forum, it seemed the logical place to host it.

Last night I actually started setting it up.

I got as far as installing MySQL, Apache, PHP and phpBB. MySQL alone took 6 hours to compile!! I probably should have cross ( Read more... )