So - this, is why it took two and half hours to drive a 20 minute journey home. Seattle area weather and traffic combine to make the greatest fun! Photos of snow to follow.
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This is the closest I’ve seen so far to the kind of device I want to have in my pocket all the time. It seems like Apple have done it again, and delivered a device that will really make a difference - like the Mac, like the iPod (remember how that changed music listening and [...]

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The Seattle weather looks mighty pleasant this week - I shall be shopping for warm clothes if this materialises!
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Its finally arrived…the first step towards my new project. I’m off to Seattle today for a week - but when I return, I’ll be setting this baby up and then the software required to make my new masterpieces. Eventually I will rule the world!
All will be revealed on my return…but this is goin to be [...]

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Each year, theres only one thing I really ask for at Christmas - and somehow Santa always brings it - I’m talking about my favourite book to start any year - Schotts Almanac. These amazing little collections of Trivia, Lists and other mental detritus are absolutely perfect gifts, you can dip into the book all [...]

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I mentioned it yesterday as one of the albums I anticipated hotly this year, and lo and behold I managed to get a couple of listens to the new Shins album today.
It opens up with ‘Sleeping Lessons’ which starts off  with a mellow vocal and some gentle keyboards - and I was off thinking that [...]

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As I said, its good to have things to look forward to - and I’ve long been looking for a way to find out what music releases are coming my way in the next months. Step forward Wikipedia - with a fantastic page that I’m bookmarking.
There are some fantastic releases scheduled for 2007 - heres just [...]

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Its good to have something to look forward to, especially as you start the year and its a bit cold and grey. I love those lists of things that are forthcoming - movies, TV and music, and one name that kept cropping up on those lists was ‘Just Jack’. I first heard this guy on [...]

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When Microsoft announced that they were going to make movies and TV content available for download on the Xbox360 - it was clear that they were after a harder push into the living room - now it turns out that this move was one of the few success in the movie download arena - it’s [...]

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Yesterday was the ’season finale’ of Torchwood - episodes 12 and 13, sandwiched together on BBC 3 (wasn’t overly impressed with the way they just welded these two together - rather than making a seamless long episode, but I digress). I’ve really enjoyed Torchwood - which is is a spin-off from the brilliant Doctor Who. [...]

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