Spin-my-Blog Post
“I have just paid the faucet for my new flat & I’m on my way now to arrange a brought down connection & that sort of thing. Tossing this entry through SpinVox which supposedly converts voice messages into blot entries. If you can read this, it actually works”.
No, I wasn’t drunk when I posted the entry above earlier today, I think the free Voice-to-Screen messaging thingie from SpinVox might have been: You sign up, get assigned a unique phonenumber, call it, leave a voicemail, and SpinVox will text-to-speech it into a blog entry for you.
The voicemail I left was more like: “I have just paid the deposit for my new flat and I am on my way now to arrange a broadband connection and that sort of thing. Posting this entry trough Spinvox - which supposedly converts voicemessages into blog entries. If you can read this, it actually works“.
Still nice. Kind of.
New gizmo
Today Nik brought me the Hulger VOIP phone I ordered - hooray! Won’t have the time to actually play with it for another few days though, since I will be moving flat tommorow. I also need to arrange a SkypeIn number, and have everyone I know use Skype. Firenze, Newbury, Nykoping, Amsterdam - do you copy?
You can get Hulger phones in Am*dam as well from Nel.
Free Polyploid tunage
My friend Chris Gannon a.k.a. Polyploid has put up a backcatalog of some of his unreleased music online for free download - I suggest you go download it all straight away.
Enjoy!
Bricklane area [ ] checklist
[x] The Phunk is in the area
[x] Banksy is in the area
[x] Mad skillz are in the area
Went out this Sunday afternoon to visit Bricklane flowermarket & secondhand market, which are just around the corner from the flat - as well as many cool shops, bars, galleries and the souk-style Sunday Upmarket and Spitalfields market.
One month ago today
Atlas mountains / Marrakech +++
The Saturday Club
Today brought us the very first Saturday Club. The Saturday Club is all about spending a Saturday afernoon with good people, good food, good culture and a few pints to finish it all off. Todays TSC consisted of Dom, John, Julie and Garreth.
For the good food bit we went to Windsor Castle, Notting Hill, and for culture to the Science Museum to see the Game On exhibition: £8 to enter a giant play-as-much-as-you-like arcade with the whole history of videogaming under your fingertips, featuring: A genuine PDP-1 with the legendary Spacewar, tabletop Pacman units, Nintendos, Galaga machines, strange and rare Japanese units, headphone installations with classic SID tunes from the likes of Rob Hubbard and Ben Dalgish, and everything else.
Dom found a PANG! machine which is still as good today as it was back then. Shame there was only one joypad. Although if there was two we probably would still be there going at it right now.
We ended this splendid day in Covent Garden for some light shopping.
ZX Spectrum widget
A collection of vintage ZX Spectrum emulated games inside a widget.
That’s quite a nice thing to have.
Good thinking
I think this is very funny (thanks Buzz).
Get tickets, then don’t go
So the plan was that me and Iain would go and see Junior Boys in Camden yesterday. But then we both forgot to go. Next sunday Junior Boys play Paradiso in Amsterdam and Cathy, Woes and Jade are going. If they don’t forget. Which I’m sure they won’t.
Update 25 feb - SMS update just came in stating ‘JB’s rocked the house’.
Update 27 feb - Woes just sent me a few pics of the Amsterdam concert - I blatently cropped one up to fit my blog. Blasphemy, I know.
Word to tha Woes
On my way back to London from another nice weekend back in Amsterdam! Rendezvous at Kamer 401 with the lovely C, the lovely Jade Scorpion and Woes - who compiled a Hip Hop mix CD to change my mind on saying “Hip Hop is Dead”. So right now I’m on my way back to the city nodding along to Grand Pubas’ Change Gonna Come. Thanks mate!