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Where did the Strange Ones Go?

Many would argue, including myself that 1995 until 2000 were great years for music.
In the UK, Britpop reigned supreme with great bands such as Blur (featuring Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame), Kula Shaker, Sleeper, Manic Street Preachers and Echobelly bringing out their greatest works.
It was in 1997 whilst watching Saturday morning television that I discovered [...]

Social Bookmarking Footer – Tutorial for Blogger (Actually works!)

Social Bookmarking sites are becoming a popular and successful way for people to bring traffic to their blogs.
After reading and starting to use Digg and Stumbleupon I decided I wanted my post footer to display the links for people to promote my posts using some of these sites.
A quick search on the web revealed a [...]

Missing Sound

Whilst traveling from the UK to the USA, to Canada back to the UK, then back to Canada, USA and finally back to Canada over the last few months, music has been something I have only really listened to when the control ha been in the hands of others. Most of the time it has [...]

Free For All, Two New Technorati Icons

Whilst re-modelling my blog I found lot’s of nice feedburner icons. Looking at my measly Technorati icon I decided I wanted a similar one. After searching with no luck I decided to make one for myself.
Now I have decided to upload it for anyone else to use.
Please right click (or alt click, on mac) to [...]

Has My Statcounter Really Just Reached 1000?

It’s a monumental occasion when something hits a big number!
And today my Statcounter finally reached 1000.
But sadly the news was sobered by an article I read this morning by snoskred.org
The Article is called Do NOT rely on your sitemeter and it gives some very good reasons as to why stats are not always a good [...]

I’m A Legal Alien, A Legal Alien In Montreal

Well just over a week ago I arrived in Montreal to start my new life.
Today I just (sort of) moved into a new apartment and I just managed to start a job washing dishes in a kitchen.
It’s a very different life to the one I had in London where I owned a flat and charged [...]

That Smug B*****D O’Reilly

I only just saw this clip today and thought I would share it.
I really really do hate Bill O’Reilly. He just has no idea what he is on about and seems to be under the impression that he has one up on a much more quick witted Stephen Colbert

How the hell did he think [...]

What Did The Memes Ever Do For Us?

Absolutely NOTHING!!!
Well….. they gained us a huge Technorati rating.
Well apart from technomajik rating, what did they ever do for us?
Errrr…. they brought us visitors from all over the web.
Well apart from Technorati rating and visitors, what did they ever do for us?
Mmmmm…. helped us find new and exiting blogs to browse and join.
Well apart from [...]

Memories From My UK Trip – August 2007

As promised here is a selection of photos from my UK trip. For more you can visit my Flickr here
Hastings:

First off I visited my Dad in Hastings, South East England. It’s a small coastal town famous fro fish and chips, smugglers, quaint buildings and rowdy drinker types.
As you can see if beautiful.

Battle:
Whilst in Hastings we [...]