July 30th, 2007
Each episode, we invite one self confessed geek to spend a little time on the Island. But there’s a catch: they may bring along five, and only five, of their most important, cannot live without, geek items!
In this first episode, the Island welcomes geek, podcaster, and Tea and Podcasts management, Peter Cooper. Discover which website, [...]
July 23rd, 2007
With the aim to produce some saleable originals, it’s tough these days to decide whether a drawing ends up on a sheet of acid free cartridge paper, or in my Moleskine sketchbook. As it’s turning out, the criteria for the sketchbook inclusion is that the underlying concept has a strong personal resonance, or current relevance. [...]
July 3rd, 2007
There’s a new tool in the box for writing these days - this post was compiled using it before being posted, and several other existing projects have been ported across. This new boy is called Scrivener.
I’m not entirely sure how this one slipped under both my and jEN’s radar as we are typically geeky in [...]
June 24th, 2007
Koopa gets in the UK charts at No 21, with the help of UK podcasters
Martin “Green Dragon” Devaughn hears about himself at Glastonbury
The Zoom H4 and soundscapes
Getting told off by the self-appointed Freecycle citizen police (Freecycle Gems)
Music from Koopa and Graham Holland Sourced from the Podsafe Music Network
Show length: 34 minutes [ [...]
June 21st, 2007
Facebook’s recent growth is certainly impressive - are there any interweb users out there who have not had several invitations to join? My gut-level dislike for Facebook stems not from concerns of a large bubble which may burst, but from a large bubble with deliberately increasing wall thickness.
There is one element to Facebook that makes [...]
September 11th, 2006
Normally I post about my limited standup comedy experiences, but this one surpasses anything I experienced. Patton Oswalt is a comedy actor and comedian - if you’ve seen the US sitcom King of Queens, you’ll recognise him as Spence.
You will need to scroll about two thirds down the page to the post entitled : 4/27 [...]
September 9th, 2006
Another exciting audio event - no, really - from the aspiringly affluent (”How much for that shed?”) town: Maidenhead. Recorded just after a snooze, and once again with the updated and improved Übercaster - I know I keep going on about it, but it is awesome.
The London (and other) podcaster meetups
The trouble with GPS systems
New [...]
September 9th, 2006
Code Igniter has proved to be a valuable tool in helping to get some of my personal code projects off the ground. Here are the three which are currently in development.
WriteRelief (http://writerelief.co.uk)
WriteRelief is designed to help freelance writers track their submissions to magazines, publications and publishers. The database enables creation of projects from which submissions [...]
