Entries from June 2007

June 30, 2007

Blogging with a pen; and a story about words

One of the first lessons I’ve learnt about blogging is that there are two basic requirements of the genre:
1) Something to say
2) An internet connection
Okay, the first requirement is open to interpretation. On the journalism course that I’ve just finished, one of the major complaints (of many) that the course leader held was that the [...]

June 25, 2007

the joy of decks

It took me a few years but on Saturday night I finally fulfilled a long-term, if loosely-held, ambition: I DJ’d at a friend’s flat party.
Now I know my mixing was haphazard at best and my track selection nonsensical to all but myself, but I genuinely believe I have found my new favourite pastime. My destiny, [...]

June 24, 2007

brave new world…

…of the blog!
Is there anybody out there? If so, cheers for stopping by my first effort at joining the techno-savvy generation (anyone can make a MySpace, so it don’t count) and hopefully in time there will be a few things worth reading on here. I plan to include the writing I do for some magazines [...]