Now I have an iPhone, I am going to neatly integrate everything. My calendar, email and address book will be the same whether I am making a phone call, writing email on my desktop, or using webmail.

Hah.

I spent most of this weekend working out how to do this. By the end of Sunday, I did not have everything integrated, but after taking this advice ( Read more... )

I spent Saturday in Kensington Town Hall at Dragonmeet, London's one day roleplaying convention. As well as catching up with people I only meet at Dragonmeet, I saw my friend launch a book, played an interesting Dad's Army game, and saw a big new RPG announcement.

Most importantly: Game Night is finally launched. If you also read ( Read more... )

I've had long problems with PC Next Day; in short, I cannot recommend them. Rather than post a long exchange, I'll post a short one which conviently includes a summary. To be fair, I've found their technical team friendly and helpful (even if it's occasionally taken them a few days to reply). But their customer support staff have a habit of ( Read more... )

The Big Green Gathering was fantastic. The main annoyance from last year - very open sale and use of drugs - was gone, and the festival radio station were kind enough to let me join in. I interviewed, recorded, gathered news, and presented programmes - great fun. And ate a lot.

I'll post links to some MP3s if and when I can.

There's a very good board game out there, but none of the game fairs will touch it with a barge pole, and the distributors have been doing their level best to force the publishers out of business. It's a little bit like Risk, in that it's about global supremacy, but this is about the way global politics is *really* fought.

And it's very, very funny.

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I was at a friend's birthday party last night (which, if she's reading this, I thoroughly enjoyed) and no-one knew when the last train back into central London was. (It was in Kingston, which is where London begins to blend into the commuter belt.) I didn't have the number for rail inquiries on my PDA, and my mobile's internet browser is unusuable ( Read more... )

I played an entertaining game of “Buck Rogers: Battle for the 25th Century” with
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Several months ago my favourite Spitalfields stall, Bethlehem Desta, stopped doing Spitalfields. Which meant that I couldn't get my Sunday injera - although I usually gave myself a more practical excuse, often the real reason for a wander through the markets. Injera is a soft, fluffy half-bread half-pancake wrapped around a variety of hearty (but ( Read more... )

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August has been a busy month, partially because water came through the ceiling, and partially because I started going to festivals for the first time. Because there's already a lot of information about both of them on the web, I'll write less about Womad and Big Green:

WomadA big 20,000 strong commercial festival with lots of acts thrown in the ( Read more... )