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I’m chairing a panel discussion with Modified Toy Orchestra and Juneau Projects 22 Jul 2013 | 10:14 pm
This one came completely out of the blue. While attending the launch of Square Wave, an exhibition of instruments made by the Modified Toy Orchestra and Juneau Projects at the A3 Project Space last we...
Harkive 10 Jul 2013 | 04:34 am
OK Craig, since you asked so nicely… 12.52pm Hit shuffle on iTunes while writing a blog post in the office. Bright Eyes, Camper Van Beethoven, Queen, Aphex Twin. 4.08pm iPad on shuffle while worki...
State of the Pete: Art 9 Jul 2013 | 06:27 pm
A few major things have happened to me over the last few months and I feel the need to put them into words and make those words public in order to make sense of them. This is the second bunch of words...
State of the Pete: Shop 9 Jul 2013 | 01:09 am
A few major things have happened to me over the last few months and I feel the need to put them into words and make those words public in order to make sense of them. Last September I got involved wi...
The Yellow Pages QR Code Ultimate Putdown 26 Jun 2013 | 04:55 am
If you see this on the Interwebs, it came from my camera, like that matters. This afternoon the new Yellow Pages came though the door. He’s right. Every year this increasingly redundant and dramatic...
Harkiving my listening with photography 13 Jun 2013 | 02:42 am
Harkive is a curious little project aiming to understand how people listen to music these days, the assumption being it’s a little more complicated than simply putting a record on, by keeping a record...
Manbag Techbag 14 May 2013 | 10:16 pm
Like I’m sure many of you, I need to cary a small but significant amount of peripheral tech around with me. I don’t mean the phone/computer/camera/etc – I mean the little things, the cables, adaptors ...
The Alpha Rabbit 2 May 2013 | 04:58 am
So in January we accidentally got rabbits. It was only supposed to be a temporary thing while relatives moved but they were so happy and they made us so happy that the relatives in question said we co...
An Engagement 16 Apr 2013 | 04:54 am
So on Saturday morning I asked Fiona to marry me and she said yes and then we were engaged which is like a whole thing where everyone congratulates you and it’s lovely but kinda weird at the same time...
Paging Alfred Korzybski 4 Apr 2013 | 04:01 am
So I’m reading The Meme Hustler this quite long article by Evgeny Morozov about Tim O’Reilly and it’s both fascinating and really annoying in that way some journalism can be when you know a bit about ...