November 8th, 2005 cmsj
After almost 28 years (bar some short spells here and there) I am leaving Brighton, because despite being a fantastic city, the jobs market for IT (especially Linux) really sucks here. The city depends on tourism, there’s no space or reason for very much technology. I am therefore abandoning the insurance industry for the advertising industry, and Brighton for London; The job is similar, but with more headroom.
My current mission is finding a sweet house with a bunch of cool, interesting people to dampen the shock of moving, since I don’t think I can commit my life and finances to an hour and a half commute a day if I stay here ;)
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September 28th, 2005 cmsj
Joining the gallery (see links section) now are pictures from Shoreham Air Show (camera battery died, so I didn’t get to take pics of most of it) and a holiday with my family to Salou, in Spain.
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August 25th, 2005 cmsj
I’ve been up to things again and finally got around to putting the pictures up.
To kick things off we have a gallery of photos from the Jazz Cafe Picnic at Marble Hill in Twickenham (London). It can be found here.
On Tuesday I went to London to meet up with adie and we wandered around the Science Museum, saw a 3D IMAX movie and looked round an exhibition of costumes/props from the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie. The gallery is here.
Finally, as a bit of fun, I found myself in some TV footage from Glastonbury (click on the images for larger and fullsize versions):
On the left is the original TV image with us circled, on the right is the same shot, but with us magnified (or rather, the back of our heads magnified)
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August 10th, 2005 cmsj
I spent the weekend just gone in some fields in Herefordshire, at the Eastnor Castle Big Chill festival and it completely rocked :)
My photos are in the gallery and tom’s are here
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July 19th, 2005 cmsj
I saw Mark Thomas doing a stand-up gig at Concorde 2 in Brighton this evening with Alex, Simon, and Simon and jolly good it was too. The man can certainly express some righteous anger!
It wasn’t all political ranting (which was still very funny), there was a good mix of humour, some of which went beyond the pale for some of the audience; Along with some excellent anecdotes from various anarchic protests he has taken part in.
Two thumbs up :)
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May 5th, 2005 cmsj
Last weekend I went up to Edale in Derbyshire with Simon, Tam, Marky and Tom. We had a most excellent time (albeit a bit muddy and smelly). My photos are here, Tam’s are here and marky’s are here.
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December 18th, 2004 cmsj
I’ve re-enabled comments with an additional plugin that requires you to type a short code from a randomly generated image. That should keep the spammers at bay and let any real people comment here, not that they’re likely to ;)
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December 12th, 2004 cmsj
Blimey. This is quite some intense action!
In a way it’s more like playing Quake than it is Half Life - it feels even more intense than the original Half Life multiplayer deathmatch at least.
It’s no Counterstrike:Source though, I am liking that game even more now, especially what with it running at >50fps (my CPU doing SSE2 seems to make something of a large difference over similarly clocked 32bit Athlons)
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December 12th, 2004 cmsj
Today I watched The Lord of The Rings: Return of The King: Extended Edition (bit of a mouthful) and I have to say I am very impressed and it’s great to see things like the Saruman confrontation at last.
I’ve only watched a few of the extra bits, the ones I thought would be most interesting/funny and they were (the stuff about weta digital and post production was great) and I probably won’t bother with the rest, it’s just nice to have finally closed out the full, extended trilogy at last. I can still remember seeing Fellowship of The Ring quite clearly a few years ago and I’ve really enjoyed watching it develop since then.
I went for the boxed version, which includes a little model of Minas Tirith, which is very funky and goes with the Argonath from the Fellowship boxed version nicely :)
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December 11th, 2004 cmsj
Last night I went to see Groove Armada at the Brixton Academy for marky’s birthday. It was a truly excellent show - the performance was really spot on and they have done an excellent job preparing the tour so it’s not just a string of set pieces; It was more like an arrangement of their work with the various tracks rolling through each other beautifully. The visuals were funky and the atmosphere was very friendly.
If you have the option of seeing them live, take it. I will be hunting the festival listings next year for their appearances ;)
(and thanks to Simon’s parents for letting us stay the night, plus for having awesome cats :)
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