Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Mashed is a no go this year
As you may have seen over on the backstage.bbc.co.uk blog Mashed isn’t happening this year. Ewan sums it up well
you put smart people in a room and great things happen. Put smart people in a room with their own DAB TV station and a red button service they can hack away with, and you get [...]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Comments….
So sorry everyone – I just found a pile of comments that had got tagged as spam – thanks to John Diamond for the heads up – I’ve just approved them all and white-listed you – sorry everyone
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Coffee Post
I’m not sure how long it takes to become a coffee snob, I would say that several years ago I was definitely a snob – but then I’d never been to Melbourne. This city serves the best coffee anywhere, with the exception of one or two little places in rural France, Melbourne’s coffee knocks the [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Mashed rocked the world
Well London at least. Well, Alexandra Palace anyway.
Thank you to everyone who’s been contacting me about Mashed for 2009 – as some of you may know I left the BBC late last year to come and work for Lonely Planet – and as such I’m not involved with the organisation any more… but should I [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Planning the first ‘medium’ sized trip in Australia
I knew it wouldn’t take long to seriously get into planning my first extended trip here in Australia after I bought the XT660X – so here’s my first stab with some helpful advice from Mr Nigel Dalton (author of the Dalton Diversion) and Mr John Shippick.
Comments on this route greatly appreciated, thoughts on the towns [...]
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Oscar
Oscar, originally uploaded by mattcashmore.
I miss the cats. In fact I think the hardest thing about being all the way out here is the fact I had to leave the cats behind :-/
The thing is I find myself wondering if I should get another cat out here as a stand-in before my two come [...]
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Six months in Australia
Well very nearly six months – but near enough that I’ve started too look back at my short time here in Australia and take stock.
The biggest thing that’s hit me, is the things I thought would be important to me haven’t. When faced with a 25kg weight limited I tried to estimate what I HAD [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Robot dies, robot puts itself together again.
We are truly living in the 21st Century. Now where’s Buck?
Biddy biddy biddy