Archive for November, 2009

More Best Songs Of The Noughties

Though I said in my post on the best songs of the Noughties that I was not going to try to include all of them, since I wrote I keep thinking of songs that really are too good to miss out. So, for what it’s worth, here’s Now, That’s What Ciarán Calls The Noughties, Vol. [...]

media140 Gets Me On The News

A few weeks back I spoke at the media140 event in London. Despite the fact that my voice nearly gave out at one point, saved only by the kind donation of a Strepsil by Gabrielle, it seemed to go well.
After I’d finished I got chatting to Ben Cohen, the tech correspondent at Channel 4 News [...]

Yes, yes, yes, another post about Twitter, I know. This one has a point at least. Well. Kind of.
A few weeks back I spoke at the 2nd of the excellent Media140 conferences, this one looking at the way that the real-time web is impacting brands. The guys at Media140 recorded my session on why & [...]

Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey

My rather shitty day was vastly improved by listening to Geoff Lloyd’s show (the best thing on Absolute Radio IMO) on my drive back from the station.
He was interviewing a man called Jonathan Coulton, who apparently used to be a web developer but now, as far as I can tell, makes his money by making [...]

Last Saturday I had a lovely meal at Gaucho Piccadilly: the steak was excellent, the wine delicious and the service exemplary. It was very different to how I’d imagined it - more like the bar of a boutique hotel, with lighting so low in the bathrooms it was almost impossible to see, than the typical [...]

Best Songs Of The Noughties

So, when Absolute Radio announced their quest to find the best songs of the decade, I said that I found it hard to pick any. Well, I’ve changed my mind, thanks to some inter-office discussions (ending in this playlist) and listening to a lot of stuff from the last ten years. Like this.
And so, without [...]

If Paul McCartney Was A Project Manager

Via Codegent comes this delightful visualisation of Hey Jude as a flow chart at love all this.

After that, it only seems right to leave you with song in question.

I’ve not written anything for a while, partly because it’s taking me ages to write my songs/albums of the year/decade posts.
But why I’m bothering I’m not really sure, as the only stories really worth telling this year have been the release of The Beatles Rock Band and AC/DC, another band who refuse to allow their [...]






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