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  • Bad Gypsy

    Summer has meant too much roving and not enough writing so I’ll get busy over the next few weeks. I know the power of scribbling be it on a web journal or on a scrap of paper. So be it.

    I actually attempted a post from the Big Green Gathering, but it was soon evident that my database had become corrupted by my moving my hosting account so it was not to be. Shame, I was in a tent in the middle of a field tapping away whilst drinking a cappuccino, which to my mind is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement.

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  • Online Photoshop

    The whole idea of hosted programs that you access through a web browser is not a new one, but with google spearheading the offering such large on-line storage, combined with the kind of bandwidth we can use to move large files around we have the tools for the job.

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  • Croke Malarkey

    Having recently been welcomed into the bosom of my long lost Irish relatives, both north and south of that most curious invisible fence, I feel I can comment on anything I want when it comes to things Irish. I’d also like to add that upon meeting the folks in the homeland, I have found out where that part of me that requires vocal freedom, comes from. Also that part of me that could quite happily swim in alcohol for the rest of my born days, oblivion warming me in milk soaked dreams of silk and velvet.

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  • Skype and mobile data cards

    T Mobile seem to be green lighting the use of SKYPE on mobile data cards (since October actually, but I am just catching up), but I am still a little unclear about why they were against it in the first place, although the fact that people might be bypassing those expensive daytime mobile calls in favour of cheap Skype calls might be a clue. All we need now is for the quality of those Skype calls to improve and away we go, just pop a computer in your pocket and roam.

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  • The more mobile gypsy

    The whole idea of super portability allowing us all to be cyber gypsies is maturing at a rapid rate. Completely by chance today I stumbled upon the OQO portable computer today and was amazed (I was originally chasing around rumours I had heard of Skype using bizarre amounts of bandwidth on mobile data cards, a rumour that I suspect is encouraged by mobile suppliers, but more of that later).

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  • Gypsy in Ireland

    I spent last week in Ireland trotting about like a wild haired leprechaun amongst the flame haired dunes of Portstewart and the old walled city of Derry, witnessing the stark contrasts that make this place a puzzle for a while yet.

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  • Away

    I have been a bad boy by shacking up on another continent for a few months. I travelled from England to Banjul in Africa, filming a bunch of lunatics drive ramshackle cars (including a hearse, ex GDR trabant, a cadillac and a stretch limo).

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  • Don’t be a sinner, be a winner

    I made this with my old mate Toby.

    I kinda figure that we have one of the best resources for making video on our doorsteps. London is a never ending wealth of material, it’s just a matter of getting out and capturing it. All we have to do is give the medium a name and a set of rules that make it look like we have invented a genre, and we are sorted.

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  • What a great new plugin

    I Just downloaded a plugin for firefox that allows me to post blogs directly from the browser window. Now, you may be thinking that that’s exactly what you do, but it’s handy to be able to login with one click and post when you are inspired, or drag stuff from the window you were browsing in to the blogging window.

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  • Ok, He’s A Genius

    Ok, He’s a genius.

    I loved this song he made with Cocker man the pop singer (said in a Vic Reeves style of course) cunts are still ruling the world.