Archive for August, 2009

Stupid music business and API’s

I’ve been peripherally involved in music business stuff since the mid-nineties when I started running a fan site for a certain classic rock band. In that time, I’ve watched the music business bleed itself to death through completely not understanding what was happening in the world with free access to information and their preciously generated [...]


London tourist stuff days 6, 7, 8 and 9 – Bath, Venice, dead bodies and photos

Hm, this was supposed to be daily, but what with one thing and another, updating been a little less frequent. Still, we’ve been knocking things off the list pretty well, so all is not lost. Day 6 – Primrose Hill It was almost a rest day, but we took a small perambulation in the evening [...]


London tourist stuff days 4,5 and 6

Day 4 was a Sunday, so we headed East. First up with the kitschness that is Spitalfields market[15]. I’ll claim two connections to this: first, when it was a fruit and veg market, my dad used to use it sometimes when he didn’t use Covent Garden. Second, I used to work in Spital square back [...]


London tourist stuff day 3

Louise pulled out of her “flu-like symptoms” well enough to start complaining about hunger. Well, after CL’s theraputic soup noodle at lunch. She demanded fish and chips, so we got the bus (did I mention I messed up the tubes to Borough Market yesterday?) to Baker Street and strolled past Marylebone to the Seashell for [...]


Emergency London tourist stuff updated

Tourist Stuff in London This is an updated version of this list. Thanks to everyone for the comments and suggestions! I also remembered a few more things. In two days we’ve knocked quite a few things off the list. Taking day 3 off to rest though! Museums Tate modern – great building, meh exhibitions Tate [...]


Days 1 and 2 of 50 things in London

50 Things to do in London This came out of these doodlings on the train to London airport. This is my account of how many of those things we achieve. Day 1 I hadn’t decided to blog our tourist exploits at this point so I only had my iPhone camera with me and only got [...]