Archive for August, 2009

Stitching together social networking

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

I don’t think I’m addicted to these things, but I do use social networking a fair bit.
On the microblogging front I use Twitter (mostly posting via Identi.ca).
For the classic social networking stuff I’m on Facebook and LinkedIn.
I’m scrobbling my audio to last.fm, there is of course this blog receiving occasional posts and I’ve been on [...]

lastminute.com strangeness

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

I booked a hotel on lastminute.com and accidentally did 4 nights when I meant to do 5. Well actually what I did was I booked Eurostar for 5 nights when I meant to do 4, and Eurostar is not refundable or amendable, so the “best” thing to do was take an extra day of [...]

Advice to Somerset House Summer Screen visitors

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Somerset House for the last few years has screened some open air movies each summer. Here’s some advice if you’re going.

Do arrive 2+ hours before the movie starts when the doors open, as space goes quickly and you’ll want to stake your claim. Have a picnic.
Do not bring any glass bottles, they’ll only [...]

ow ow ow

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

For the last 2 days I’ve been feeling shooting pains in one part of my head, a bit like a migraine. My eye on the same side felt a bit sore as well but I couldn’t see anything really wrong with it. It seemed to get better if I took my glasses off [...]