A long time ago - in a previous incarnation of my blog, I wrote a post about parkour (or parcour), the sport of free-running, or using urban landscapes as a running, jumping and leaping playground. There was a Channel 4 programme, and a film by Luc Besson inspired by the ‘parkouristes’ and some [...]

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Inspired by a post over at Lifehacker (which is great reading by the way) - I’ve written a quick guide to setting up run commands in the MSN Search Toolbar (which is free - and works excellently as a search tool for your PC - and Outlook). Check out the guide after the jump…

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I’ve done both actually - Ian Brown, live at Brixton Academy yesterday - and its a late contender for the ‘gig of 2005′. Ian Brown and his band ambled on stage about 9.30ish - and opened up with two legendary Stone Roses tunes : ‘I wanna be adored’ and ‘Made of Stone’ , its a [...]

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from Metafilter in a post about vintage postcards…someone linked to ‘Found MattR’, my site which archives the postcard collection.

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Richard Hawley - Coles Corner : tonight, Richard Hawley will be on Jools Holland, and I feel confident that sales of this terrific album will soar tomorrow (some of you maybe hear after googling following that performance). I would recommend you don’t delay too much - click on the picture at the left and go [...]

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A couple of days of meetings in the Soho office this week - new stuff to get excited about at work…had lunch in my favourite Japanese place again yesterday - Taro - with amazing Beef Teryaki Don…superb, and cheap, and only 50m from the office door. I still hate the train, still hate the tube [...]

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You burn too bright, You live too fast…This can’t go on too long, you’re a tragedy waiting to happen

Elbow – Red

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Andrew Kendall is an independant music photographer, who has been published in the NME, Independant etc - and recently had all of his equipment stolen in a mugging, like a DJ or musician or even a plumber…his tools are his trade -without his camera he can’t survive, so he has come up with a novel [...]

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Its easy to see the attraction of not going into London to see live music…less than 45 minutes from my front door to the car-park of Oxford Brookes University, to see a band that will play Brixton tonight - perfect. We arrived as ‘The Weight’ were about halfway through their set…good stuff, reminding me of [...]

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Well - not me, my site…I’ve decided to take on a new look - I’m just tidying up after the change-round, but everything is still here…please let me know what you think. I’m using the fabulous ‘regulus’ theme from binarymoon.

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