Bjork - Human Behaviour Looking back (and we're just past the halfway point now), it's remarkable how short a period of time my university days took up. I'm not the sort of person who continually pines for the 'good old days', but I do recognise how much influence the three years I had at Loughborough … Continue reading 1993
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Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit This is the riff of my student days... So this one is a bit of a cheat, because Smells Like Teen Spirit was actually release in 1991. It did, however, feature in some charts across the globe in early 1992, so it counts. My count-up, my rules, and it's … Continue reading 1992
Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff - Dizzy LCR 963. Loughborough Campus Radio. Broadcasting all over the student village. And live to the Purple Onion. Ahh. Those were the days. As I mentioned a few years back, as a kid I used to pretend to do radio shows in my parents' front room. At University I … Continue reading 1991
The Las- There she goes Those of you who knew me in the late 1980s will know that I was a militant little git. Although the Anti-Apartheid Movement was the only organised political group that I was actively involved in (and one that spanned party politics for the most part), I tended to have a … Continue reading 1990
The Cure - Lovesong And so to the last year of the 1980s, and a song by The Cure, the only band that I become a bit obsessed with. There was something mystical about Robert Smith. The crumpled clothes, the bird's nest hair, the hi-top trainers, the wavering voice and the songs. My old Smooly … Continue reading 1989
Yello - The Race I love a bit of ultra-produced pop. Yello were the weirdest of things... Dieter Meier, a millionaire Swiss industrialist, and his sidekick Boris Blank. Looking like a European Terry Thomas, I can envisage Meier holed up in his depths-of-a-mountain lair, surrounded by Fairlight CMI music computers and over-fluffy cats, plotting to … Continue reading 1988
New Order - True Faith My favourite song. Ever. True Faith is special to me in so many ways. New Order were a musical bridge for me, taking me from hip hop and electronica into the world of guitars, indie and later grunge. The video a kaleidoscope of colour, oversized dogs, and face slapping. And … Continue reading 1987
Day two of Atmosphere was a slightly more involved event for me, as I ran a couple of workshop sessions on how we went about delivering Google Apps into Imagination. I was preceded by a demo of ChromeOS. Joking before with Xen (product demonstrator and stuntman), it promised to be the most uninteresting demonstration in … Continue reading Travelblog 3.2 – Google Atmosphere
I spent a great day today at the Atmosphere event today, with a mix of speakers who opened up some interesting lines of discussion. Above everything, I think that the recurring theme was that the challenges that the Cloud poses for organisations today is in the way in which the "democratising" effects of web-based services … Continue reading Travelblog 3.1 – Google Atmosphere
A mini-travelblog for the Google Atmosphere event taking place just outside Chantilly. Arrived, after a bit of an expedition involving three trains, a bit of a wait, a realisation that cabs are probably unlikely in a Parisian suburb on a Sunday, and a madcap dash in a Renault Clio driven by a bloke from a … Continue reading Travelblog 3.0 – Google Atmosphere
