By mattr on June 29, 2007
Honestly – I’m surprised I haven’t put a stone on – the week in the US was really tough for me, big portions, dressing on every salad and excuses to take a beer or two. Plus I only got to work out twice while I was there because of some crazy early starts. So, I [...]
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By mattr on June 25, 2007
Back after a fine week in Seattle – strange week, feel like I did very little work – and now I have the inbox from hell to pay me back for time spent in offsite meetings, awards dinners and ‘morale’ events.
Suitcase issues aside, it was pretty good – weather was lovely and Seattle life [...]
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By mattr on June 22, 2007
So – this was supposed to be a cool thing showing 16 random books from my website…but it broked my RSS feed, so I’m removing it till I understand what the fudge is going on!
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By mattr on June 21, 2007
Its been ages since anyone released an album that I wanted to write about, and suddenly three or four have arrived at once. I was eagerly awaiting an album from either of the Orbital brothers, and finally ‘The Ideal Condition’ from Paul Hartnoll has dropped.
Orbital were one of my all-time favourite bands – combining tough [...]
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By mattr on June 20, 2007
We have bunches of books at home…loads and loads of dead trees stacked on neat looking shelves around the house, thanks to Sandrine we have many books in French, and I’ve always been an avid reader – so we’ve accumulated a small rain forest.
I’ve always wanted a list – mainly so I can track the [...]
Posted in books, random, site news
By mattr on June 19, 2007
Sitting at 38,000 feet seems like the perfect place to reflect on my first trip to the new Wembley Stadium – on Saturday we went to see Muse live, supported by Dirty Pretty Thing, the Streets and Rodrigo Y Gabriela.
We rolled up at about 6pm – and found it easy (but expensive) to park [...]
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By mattr on June 18, 2007
I’m starting to think that British Airways have a vendetta – twice in two long-haul trips, they have managed to ‘misplace’ my luggage.
I arrived at Seattle at 5.30ish local time yesterday afternoon, and whilst waiting in line for immigration I heard my name being paged in the baggage arrival hall below – I immediately [...]
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By mattr on June 18, 2007
Blogs seem to be popping up everywhere to keep a track of whats happening on Facebook (and its platform) – its early days, so I’m not sure how they’ll fare – but here are three of the first I’ve seen:
facereviews.com – reviews all of the applications that are currently being launched on facebook
allfacebook.com - the [...]
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By mattr on June 16, 2007
Now – theres some instructions I’d be happy to follow…want more?
Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.Being not truthful works against me.Helping other people helps me.Organizing a charity group is surprisingly easy.Everything I do always comes back to me.Drugs feel great [...]
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By mattr on June 15, 2007
14:45 Gates open 16:30 – 17:15 Rodrigo Y Gabriela17:45 – 18:30 Dirty Pretty Things19:00 – 20:00 The Streets20:30 – 22:30 Muse
Very excited to go and see Muse at the wonderful Wembley Stadium tomorrow…this should be a pretty good day out, luckily Wembley is mostly under cover, because the weather looks really mixed.
Never mind though [...]
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