Yesterday afternoon we went on one of the London Walks – we chose the ‘Spies and Spycatchers‘ walk and arrived at Piccadilly Circus having been instructed to keep our eyes open for a man wearing a black hat and sporting a green carnation. After a short wait a very dapper looking gentleman appeared, our guide […]
National Digital Inclusion Conference 2009
Well, so finishes two days for me running a stand (and sometimes running around like a headless chicken!) and generally helping out at the National Digital Inclusion Conference 2009. Bigger than last year, this time around we took over most of the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster on Monday and Tuesday of this week. I […]
Keepsakes
For those of you who live or work near Victoria, theres an interesting new photographic exhibition at the SW1 Gallery, on the upper level of the Cardinal Place shopping precinct, next to Wagamama. It’s called “Keepsakes”, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Willow Foundation . The exhibition features portraits of famous people posing with […]
More Than Skin Deep
Well I was introduced to a new sub-culture today – the world of tattooing (or Irezumi in Japanese) at the London Tattoo Convention which took place over the weekend at Tobacco Dock in Wapping. There were lots of stalls set up in the old shop premises on the site, each area of the first floor […]
LugRadio Live UK 2008 Day 2
On to day two of the LugRadio Live UK 2008 conference… My day started in the main auditorium with a talk by ‘dotwaffle‘ about the demo scene – the wonderful graphical and audio creations that have grown out of the scrollers that used to precede ‘cracked’ games back in the Spectrum and Amiga days. These […]
LugRadio Live 2008 UK Day 1
OK so that was day one of LugRadio Live 2008. A great event so far. It’s being held at the Lighthouse Centre in the Chubb buildings just on the edge of Wolverampton City Centre (and which also happens to be where my grandfather spent most of his career as a safe-maker funnily enough). As with […]
LugRadio Live UK 2008 begins…
Well here I am in Wolverhampton at the launch of the latest (and last!) LugRadio Live UK 2008 conference, which is taking place at the Lighthouse Media Centre in the Chubb building in the middle of town.Started by the presenters of the LugRadio podcast, it brings together the great and the good from the open […]