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Introducing the Marseille Figs

stefan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:40:57 +0000

the extraordinary Mr Dorian McFarland, and his 3 piece big band, the Marseille Figs have released a proper cd, and it gets a rather lovely review at roomthirteen.com. Read all about The Dirty Canon, by the Marseille Figs, and then buy it at amazon. It’s being released on my birthday. surely not a co-incidence.

Look! Kittens!

stefan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:26:48 +0000

Kitten themed packs from MOO

we shoulda done this a longggggggggg time ago.

MOO Stickerbooks launches

stefan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:13:52 +0000

MOO Stickerbooks.

These are so exciting I can’t breathe.

I really must blog more often ;)

MOO launches

stefan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:46:38 +0000

Of course, this is the big day I’ve been waiting for and wanting to write about for the last six months, but even today I manage to get scooped by coates. so I’ll leave it to him.

http://www.moo.com- no politics, no data, no worthiness, just printing sexy little cards from your pictures.

I’d like to thank everyone. I’m so excited.

My first ever youtube video

stefan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:38:46 +0000

actually a quicktime of a days worth of pictures taken with my 20D at 6 fps…, since the youtube output looked rubbish:

Sophia and James’ Wedding

The low quality youtube version, if the above doesn’t work for you:

I think I now understand how Arthur Dent felt about that bypass

stefan — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:22:05 +0000

I just got back from a very happy week long trip to the Bay Area, to find that LMS Capital (not getting no googlejuice from me), a property developer, wants to build London’s 12th highest skyscraper across the road from our first floor flat.

Upon arrival, we rushed to see the (4-day long) exhibition that LMS Capital have organised to ‘publicise’ this proposal. We have until august 17th to object.

Had an interesting conversation with the robot marketing the proposal, in which she responded to my clear distress at having 44 floors of flats staring straight through the windows into my bedroom, with ‘don’t you want a community in your area?’ to which I replied, ‘we moved to Hoxton for the community! you think we’re so short of bars and community that we need a 140m glass skyscraper to help us connect?’

But I suppose, being a new technology nerdy kind of guy, and someone who has spent a fair bit of time taking things that should be online (but aren’t) there, a few things surprise me about the planning process.

1. We got a nice 4 page A4 glossy through the door that doesn’t include a URL, not even for this major capital project, not for the company that’s building it. Not an address nor a phone number either.

2. Whilst the planning notice from Islington council claimed that the planning info would be available online, there was no URL included in that document either, and I can’t find any reference to it online.

If I were the sort of paranoid who’d spent 10 years extracting public information from public bodies who didn’t really want me to, I’d suspect, possibly, an unwillingness to use technology to improve the public’s access to the planning process. I still have to take a day off work to go and get the detailed reports.

only one thing for it, I guess, better build a website.

We’ll start with some pics:

photos from LMS Capital’s proposed City Road Estate exhibition

Right, time to start blogging again

stefan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:19:51 +0000

I have a new job, I’m CTO of a new digital printing startup called MOO. We make things. Making things is fun. I’ll post more about them later.

Trillian dead

stefan — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:12:02 +0000

Tricia McMillian dead

obviously from some (as yet) unpublished edition of the Hitch-hiker’s Guide

(not laughing at tragedy, but merely spotting a co-incidence)

Possibly the most tasteless advert I’ve ever seen

stefan — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:10:27 +0000

I clipped this from a US Airways in-flight magazine. It doesn’t say where this delightful institution is, but I’m guessing Vegas.

Check out the dolly’s atrociously photoshopped mushroom cloud dress. Celebrating the culture and diverse history of the original Weapons of Mass Destruction. Lest we forget, the United States of America is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in anger.

Open Rights Group taking subscriptions

stefan — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:29:42 +0000

Because of christmas, chaos and general technical disorderliness, it took us a little longer than anticipated to get ready, but the Open Rights Group is now ready to let the Pledgers put their money where their typing is and help us get the ORG up and running.

Even if you didn’t sign the pledge, please support Open Rights Group. Get in early and be one of the Founding Thousand.

Well done James, Sam, Ben (and everyone who helped deal with my almost blind panic at the end of last year) for getting the thing up and running.