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Bread and Veg

All credit for this goes to Rodéric (and I wish there was somewhere I could link to him). I figured it might help to learn how to make a little food, just two months before university starts…
No idea what this is called, and you’ll have to trust me when I say it tastes goooood. Oil [...]

Posted at 8:30 on August 21st 2008, filed under Life, with no comments yet

Tube Advertising

As if we didn’t have enough crap to deal with on the tube, TfL (or CBS) have gone and installed these projectors to show us videos while we move around the city.
I know I’m a little late posting this, Londonist got it at the end of June.

Posted at 7:46 on August 11th 2008, filed under Life, Technology, with no comments yet

Statisticals

Because I’m a stats geek.
I’ve listened to 29,919 songs, made 9,287 edits to Wikipedia (deleting 512 articles), tweeted 1,134 things, used Firefox for 1,148 hours, written 129 comments on Digg and 68 blog posts right here.
? numbers.

Posted at 14:18 on August 10th 2008, filed under Life, Random, Technology, with no comments yet

I’m done

Yep, finished – exams, school, and more importantly, properly moving this site over to NearlyFreeSpeech. Hopefully it’s all working fine (seems to be from my end) but if you notice any weirdness, please leave a comment somewhere or send me an email.
Thanks, and have a good Summer,
Alex

Posted at 9:45 on June 29th 2008, filed under Life, with no comments yet

The Problem with TfL

I spent an hour this evening sitting on a stationary District line train in West London, so I’ve had a little time to think over what’s wrong with the transport system in London – and I think I’m getting towards understanding something (in my head, at least). The problem with Transport for London is that [...]

Posted at 22:45 on June 14th 2008, filed under Life, with 3 comments