Category Archives: found stuff

Broadcast’s Trish Keenan: a singer for whom life was a discovery | Music | guardian.co.uk

"If the reaction of the blogosphere and Twitterati to Keenan's sudden death are reliable indicators, every one of their four studio albums should have been worldwide No 1s. Blur's Graham Coxon called the news "devastating". Chillwave artist, Toro Y Moi, aka Chaz Bundick, tweeted that Keenan was "one of my biggest influences", while Colin Meloy […]

Magical Timperley Tour

As if you needed another reason to respect Tom Watson MP

Sometimes anger is both justified and honourable.

O2 New Street Birmingham Insurance Rip-Off

Boring post this, it’s just for Google to in case any other people are looking to see what’s happened. I popped and got an iPhone 4 the other day, it’s nice (and it won’t cost me much once I recycle the old 3G – and the battery was dying). I decided to stay with O2, […]

NYC Wifi

Some time ago I spent a a while collecting the wifi network names I saw while on my travels around Brum. It’s an interesting insight into the minds of those who set them up. In New York for a week and without being able to afford to use 3G on my phone I was sniffing […]

Haircut Menu

Haircut Menu, Broadway on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. Spotted in the window of a barbers on Broadway (hence poor reflection and that). I’ll have a number 24 please.

The curious case of Masal Bugduv

The curious case of Masal Bugduv: a made up Moldovan footballer is “about to sign” for Arsenal, Liverpool and Reading(?) but is the work of a fine prankster.

My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine

idlewild had a song called 'Text Mesaging is Killing the Pub Quiz' – this is a merry dance on its corpse, and we must have one. – My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine.

Passive Agressive Email Marketing

Got this today from CoTweet (which I like, it’s really the only CRM service for Twitter): “CoTweet is not for everyone. It’s designed for teams who are managing the front-line of the real-time web for their organizations. It’s for people committed to engaging customers in authentic two-way conversations, rather than just broadcasting messages to followers.… […]

West Wing — it’s the Manics for the over 30s

Not that the Manics aren’t now for the over 30s too. Think about it, long complicated sentences that struggle to fill the available time, politics references you don’t get first time — AND Bradley Whitford looks a bit like James Dean Bradfield.