David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Music,New Zealand,Travel,Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
We’ve been working so hard on getting I So Wish up and running, that we thought we’d have a bit of fun. Stef grabbed the camera, and we met in Birmingham to actually go grant a wish. I So Wish user Benjaminbrum wished that someone would bring him cake at his office on Monday morning [...]
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Tagged: Birmingham, Business, cake, isowish, wish
Stef and I re-launched I So Wish today. We’d been doing some work on it behind the scenes, and we’ve had a little input from Daniel Reardon, who is being our business guy, for lack of a better term. Rather than simply being a site where you can make wishes – it’s now a site [...]
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Tagged: Internet
Dick Frizzell’s Mickey to Tiki, Tu Meke (1997) We shared an early Christmas morning with Kerryn, Haydn and the boys today. They came up from London yesterday for Jake’s family birthday party, stayed the night and the celebrations transitioned. It was really cool to wake up on ‘Christmas morning’ with a couple of toddlers in [...]
Categories: New Zealand
Tagged: Dick Frizzell, New Zealand, Tiki, Visual Arts
There seems to be a tradition in this house that birthdays expand to fill as much of the month as possible. It’s certainly true of Bobbie (whose birthdays are legendary and pretty much span the entirety of June), and Jake, whose third 16th birthday party is this afternoon. The first one was us taking Jake [...]
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I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
