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It has become a tradition around New Year for Chris and I to make lists of the best songs of the year. And this year, it being the turn of a decade, it seemed appropriate to do one for the 2000s. Thing is, all of those songs ended up having layers and layers of personal associations - where I heard them, what else I was doing at the time, and so ( Read more... )

I didn't make Christmas cards this year, for the first time in many years; I recycled last year's designs. Part lack of inspiration, part having a big sekrit project I need to get on with, I guess. So instead, I'm going to post 2007's (blurrily photographed) cards. They form a sort of a story cycle, and are somewhat influenced by The Connection by ( Read more... )

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Heigh-ho, more photographs. I fear these ones are a little geeky (not in a 'wow, awesome, whizzo-cool' geek sort of way; I'm thinking of the sort of geek who traps you in the corner at a party and says 'I think you'll find...' a lot). Offered without much in the way of apology or explanation.


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To get this out of the way at the start: I work on the environmental effects of air transport. Since starting this work, I have gradually built up the sort of carbon footprint which in forensic terms might be used to identify a barbecued yeti. How? By flying. A lot. To many and varied conferences in many and varied places. I've just counted up the ( Read more... )