1. Reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) five songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

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A Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, so the weather was extremely mixed.

On Friday a bunch of us from work went to the new-ish oriental buffet, Tuli on Tooley Street. It’s underneath the railway arches and has made great use of the space - it’s light and airy and feels modern. The food was decidedly average - exactly what you’d expect from an all-you- ( Read more... )

Today I ...

• Had my photo used in a (gay) mockup of a what our Valentine's Day homepage could look like.
• Had lots of fun combining Ajax, JSON, RSS, JSP and jQuery in various combinations.
• Moved the breadcrumb trail from just inside the main content area to just before it ... in many, many templates.
• Wondered whether any of the ARIA landmark roles was ( Read more... )

Reasons to love the joined-up-interweb: musicians you love telling you about new musicians they love, with YouTube vids embedded, etc.

Tanita Tikaram recommends Marina and the Diamonds' I am Not a Robot

I spent this afternoon giving TanitaTikaram.net, one of my oldest websites, a makeover from this to this.

I decided to use WordPress and to lightly modify an existing theme rather than create my own. I still have a lot of content to migrate but so far the results are looking good. What do you think?

At work, we've been doing Desert Island Discs and this week is my turn. I'll be buggered if I'm writing all this lot up and not turning it into a blog post.

I win. No seriously, I win this game because I have had a theme tune written for me. Well, technically it was written for my blog, oh okay, it was inspired by the name of my blog. What? This ( Read more... )

So I found this file, last modified 10 June 1997, on a set of back ups and it's a pub quiz that I ran in Balliol bar. In fact considering the date I suspect that this is the night that pink_weasel first clapped eyes on me and thought "nice guy, shame about the jumper".

People on facebook and twitter said that they wanted to see the quiz, so here goes.
( Onwards to the quiz )

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'Chinese Friends' - Ben Dalby

Via pesky33.
The Music Intelligence Quiz

Your final score was 132/180
Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points)

You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the key to the best mix-tape isn't just the songs you pick, but ( Read more... )