Hey, y’all. By trying to get the BBC transmission of Jerry Springer: The Opera stopped, you’ve done the following: Given the show far more publicity than it previously had, or arguably deserved. There are people who didn’t know about the show before the protests but who will now be watching, with some relish, I would have thought. Confirmed the opinion in many non-Christians’ minds that we’re just a bunch of whinging killjoys. Read more...

Andy Budd has started Blog Aid — a way to help the survivors of the Asian Tsunami using your blog and any affiliate schemes you may have running. I didn’t have any affiliate scheme running, so (as you may have noticed) I’ve set up Google Adsense. I’ve no idea if it will make any money, but any I do make during January will be given to disaster relief efforts.

Yesterday our solution to the iMac’s storage problem arrived: a 120GB Maxtor hard drive with 8MB cache. Yum. Now I just have to work out how to migrate the data from old to new… Today my new mobile phone arrived. It’s a Sony Ericsson T630, which I’ve got with (effectively) free line rental for the first 12 months of an 18 month contract. I only wanted it for the Bluetooth facility, so that I can sync with the iMac, but I get to take part in the camera-phone/MMS revolution as well! Read more...

Along with Jez, I DJd at St. Philip and St. James’ Christmas Party last night. ‘Twas a good laugh, especially the cheese/80s mix I finished off with. I had the incredible foresight to record most of it with my Archos, so if you have a nice fat internet pipe, feel free to download it (29.3 MB mp3 file). It’s the proverbial curate’s egg, as the foldback wasn’t great (yeah — I know: “Poor Workman Blames Tool” shocker), and the EQ and levels aren’t great, but it might provide some aural joy; you never know. Read more...

To anyone who reads my blog regularly, welcome back. Yes — it looks rather different to normal. I’ve just installed Textpattern as my blogging tool du jour. The Movable Type blog is still there, but redirects to this one; I’ll be removing it just as it soon as I get the images etc moved across. Why did I do this? Well, Movable Type’s licensing isn’t as great as it used to be (I would have benefited from multiple authors during our /campervan/), I fancied a new challenge, and I like the opportunity to have a blank canvas, design-wise, to make this site look like it’s been designed. Read more...

Born and raised in Hampshire, UK; Husband to Kathy; Christian; member (and currently treasurer) of St. Stephen’s Church (Anglican), Lansdown, Bath; Southampton FC supporter; one-time drummer with New Generation Music and Mission’s band Rhythmworks; travelled in said band to Belgium, France, Germany and Spain; holder of a BSc(Hons) in Industrial Design from Brunel University ; Shipton Bellinger County Primary School Disco Breakdance Competition winner, 1985; hobbyist DJ — available for weddings &c &c; owner of two Technics SL-1210s and a Gemini mixer; big fan of music of various types: drum and bass, house, garage, hip-hop, IDM, jazz, classical, rock; self-taught guitarist — only a strummer though; Linux user (at work), Mac user (at home); computer geek/freak and family technical support; ColdFusion/Perl developer and Web Standards zealot advocate at Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK;

So it turns out that the BBC are reporting that Harry Redknapp is to be unveiled (though not literally, one hopes) as Southampton’s third manager of the season. The club website says that "rumours are rife" but isn’t denying anything as far as I can tell, so the St. Mary’s Revolving Door™ looks set to be back in full effect today. I suppose it’s good timing, with the transfer window about to open in January, but this is going to help the Saints/Pompey rivalry not one jot. Read more...

Sorry it’s been a bit quiet around these parts lately. I’ve been spending my lunch breaks over at Digital Spy Forums and at various other times participating in the Podcasting revolution (!). While I haven’t been doing that, Kathy & I have been telling everyone who’ll listen that we’ll be having a baby next year! W00t! ‘Bump’ was all planned and everything, and occurred on our tour, but we’re not going in for Beckham-style location-based naming. Read more...

So it turns out that, in the UK at least, the record industry is in rude health: UK record companies are celebrating their best ever year for album sales, with a record 237 million sold in the 12 months to September. — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4044303.stm But I thought that file sharing was killing music? That’s what the RIAA has been saying for the past few years, since Napster came on the scene in the late 1990s. Read more...

Macworld have photos of the new Apple Store, in good old Regent Street in that London, which opens tomorrow (November 20th). We’re busy tomorrow, unfortunately (visiting my parents, so a good kind of unfortunately), but I really want to go see!