For my birthday last month, Helen Duffett kindly bought me a ukulele. Well, it was kind to me; maybe less so to teh internets I have been teaching myself little bits here and there, subjecting YouTube to my progress. I’ve putg rather more effort...
Topics: Geeklife, Helen Duffett, Music, uke, ukulele, video, youtube

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I may write more about the MPs’ expenses scandal over the coming days. It’s a fascinating piece of car-crash current affairs, watching those who lectured us that “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” suddenly...
Topics: Elliot Morley, expenses, House of Commons, MPs, parliament, Politics

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The Eurovision Song Contest is nearly upon us, so I have taken the bullet for you and watched videos of all of this year’s entries on the BBC Eurovision website. If you visit the site, do take a look at some of the breathtakingly sincere contestant.
Topics: eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest, Geeklife, Music, TV

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Rather than producing something constructive (like an actual post), I spent the afternoon engrossed in the bloggers’ equivalent of flicking through the Dulux sample book: hunting for a new Wordpress theme.I liked the idea of a more islandy look so..
Topics: Blogging, design, wordpress

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Two weekends back, I took part in the Sci-Fi-London 48 Hour Film Challenge 2009. The name gives a pretty good summary of the objective: make a science fiction film from scratch in 48 hours.There now follows a very laborious discussion of how we made our..
Topics: 12seconds, dailymotion, Film, Geeklife, science fiction, sfl09, youtube

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