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what with all this thinking about india, i’ve been spending a little longer than i sanely should checking out various indian websites. there’s a site for everything! the indian rail site seems far more efficient than our offering and i’ve learnt a thing or too about indian cooking. it’s a little worrying that when googling for a site about british food to show an indian friend - this came up second! i just love the line “After lunch the father will smoke his pipe and read the newspaper sitting on his favourite armchair while his wife washes the dishes” - under a picture of the typical family having sunday lunch. it doesn’t mention anything about trolley teas though.
anyway - here’s some indian sounds to tease the ears. sometimes, simple everyday sounds can be the most evocative things.
Filed under: Photos, Friends, Travel, London, Technology, Media, Random
this way please… go check it out, fred’s been busy.
EDIT: more here
Filed under: Media, Technology, Random
with a certain magazine deciding to strip the most important thing in the world of its capital “i”, it’s good to see some people are sticking to their guns. i mean - these things are important!
Filed under: Travel
well it’s time to get out there again. our flight is booked for mumbai - we leave in a few weeks for 3 months. time to get planning. whoop!
Filed under: Photos
now that i have a brand new digital camera in my hand, i can’t stop snapping again. i think it’s only right i try out some open source image browsing code. take a peek at what i have mostly been doing this summer 
Filed under: London
with the tube strike in mind tomorrow, here’s a quick quiz to decide whether it’s really worth going in to work…
looks like i’m going to have to stay at home 
Filed under: London, Random
summer is here. it’s time to get on that bike again. critical mass every last friday of the month
Filed under: London, Media, Random
i went to see noam chomsky talk on “Simple Truths, Hard Choices: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice and Self-Defence” the other evening. hmm. not sure what i was expecting to hear. these sorts of issues seem to be at the forefront of peoples minds these days - with everybody bringing the subject up, whether over a beer in the pub or a picnic in the park. it’s all good and well to rant about how imbalanced power and wealth is in the world but it strikes me that a point is being missed when it becomes a “philosophical topic”. especially when that philosophising is held in the lecture halls of western universities, predominantly in the english language.
noam chomsky wouldn’t be there talking to the masses if it wasn’t for this power imbalance. we wouldn’t have been able to visit the lecture in such comfort if it wasn’t for this power imbalance. knowledge is power - and universities do well to share it with those who will recipricate the power favour by choosing english to communicate. oh look - i’m doing it myself
anyway - i left the lecture thinking that we can talk all we like saying “something must be done” but surely the consequences of such action would have to mean the west loses its grip on power and wealth in the world? maybe that would be a good thing but it would mean a very different daily reality for the people that are currently going about telling others how bad it all is.
Filed under: London, Random
i’m free! i was chuckling out aloud to myself like some deranged maniac, as i rode my bike across clapham common this morning. it had finally dawned on me that i had left my job and no longer have anyone else to answer to. so i stopped, had a cup of tea and bacon sarnie from honest tom’s tea wagon and watched the ducks. because i could. lovely.
Filed under: Random
when it rains, it pours. nine weddings in the next twelve months and counting. every which way i turn, it seems somebody else is closing the deal. congratulations to you all - you know who you are…
Filed under: Technology, Random
i was greeted this morning by a “hacked” homepage. strange - the kid(s) behind this bizarre defacement even logged the hack. very strange. logging it like that makes it appear like a
white hat attack but i can’t help feel it’s more akin to kids scribbling their names on the back of school bus seats with a marker pen.
Filed under: Technology, Random
now we’re talking. mobile photos straight to this page right here… project in progress. watch this space.
oh - and my new usb pen drive rocks. i really am turning into a geek now.
Filed under: London, Media, Technology, Random
new webcam installed (from the endemol offices)…
Filed under: Technology
a blog on a friday night? Yeah, well, we’re in the depths of winter, it’s pissing down outside and i’m saving myself for a bike ride tomorrow. Anyway - i just stumbled across this amazingly simple idea for a site ยป dodgeit.com - a great way to avoid having to reveal your email address when required for registrations that inevitably gets passed on to spam lists. i imagine the traffic to this site will shoot up beyond affordability but for now it’s a url worth remembering. plus it’s fun reading other people’s emails.
Filed under: Friends
in the true community spirit of the blogging world, i introduce to you the one and only pnoid. some of you may know of our illustrious protector of french world wealth from his blagger.com reviews. i can only say - the world would be a dark place without this man to protect us and other potential blagees.
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