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So, this blog seems somewhat sparse for 2010, thats the effect of a mixture my focus being elsewhere and the blogger service altering its range of publishing options and me only just getting around to switching. The blog has now moved to techiedog.blogspot.com . Still ... onwards and upwards.

Here is a clip of us playing live on the London leg of G-Fest earlier this month.

Tour dates for anyone so inclined - I heartily recommend making the effort. Saturday 5 Sep 2009 – BLACKPOOL The Royal Oak Saturday 12 Sep 2009 – WORCESTER Marrs Bar (with Jackdaw4) Sunday 13 Sep 2009 – BIRMINGHAM Madhouse (with Jackdaw4) Thursday 17 Sept 2009 – DONCASTER The Leopard Friday 25 Sept 2009 – YORK The Speakeasy (with Laika Dog) Saturday 26 Sept 2009 – NOTTINGHAM The Maze Sunday 27 Sept 2009 – DERBY Victoria Inn Friday 2 Oct 2009 – HALIFAX Puzzle Hall, Sowerby Bridge (with Night By Night) Saturday 3 Oct 2009 – BURY Hark To Towler (with Night By Night) Sunday 4 Oct 2009 – GRIMSBY Yardbirds (with Night By Night) Friday 9 Oct 2009 – MANSFIELD Town Mill Saturday 10 Oct 2009 – LONDON The Gaff, Holloway Road (with Shush) Friday 16 Oct 2009 – LEEDS Brudenell Social Club (with Micky P Kerr) Saturday 17 Oct 2009 – HUDDERSFIELD The Parish (with Sorry And The Sinatras) Thursday 29 Oct 2009 – NEWCASTLE Trillians Friday 30 Oct 2009 – DURHAM Fish Tank Wednesday 23 Nov 2009 – LONDON 100 Cl...

Last weekend I hit the road as I undertook my first tour since joining the band Rhombus . We had a blast, and I must thank all the people who made me feel so welcome and said very positive things - its always a worry coming into an established band, especially with such a large and loyal fan base but you guys were great. The first night was playing the Scala in London as main support for The Eden House and as a slight taster, below is a bootleg video of us playing the song 'One Day More'. I'm the one that looks like this -->

Despite the scare stories and bar stool reasoning which informs so much public opinion, we are only really starting to scratch the surface when it comes to the debate, let alone the understanding of the durability of our digital footprints; Those patterns and trails our online activity leaves for others to find. We vaguely understand the notion of a 'privacy policy' or data privacy legislation but appreciating when something is in the public domain or not is far from obvious, if one thinks about it at all. This is of course partly to do with the still nascent technology and culture the Internet has spawned. We have little in the way of societal opinion, no tradition, no common knowledge passed down from parent to child, as is the case with longer hewn technologies. Telephones on the other hand, we do understand! We understand our phone numbers and we know whether or not we want them freely available. Generally most people didn't object to their land lines being listed in a...

How many blog posts are there out there in the world (wide web) which are mostly apologies for the lack of recent posts and the promise to be a little more productive starting ... now? I've certainly read a lot ... I know that I've written several. So, I'm not going to explicitly say any of that ;-) Its true that much of what I would have blogged from a personal interest point of view finds an outlet on Twitter, which I still haven't decided whether its an incredibly useful communications tool or an ill conceived, perhaps even evil distraction. Its true, that my good friend, colleague and collaborator Imran and I momentarily found our conversation falter when we last met up in person as pretty much every piece of news we had for each other was met with a reply of "Yeah, I know, I saw your Tweet!". Of course many have tried and failed to halt our free ranging, stream of consciousness tangent spinning conversations in the past, and so we were back on track befo...

Finally saw these guys opening for Ginger - most exciting new band I've seen for years!

Its been a while but we've now got ensembli's blog up and running. Find it at blog.ensembli.com

There is no shortage of URL shortening apps around on t'web. And here is another!

Tonight I'm one of the speakers at the O'Reilly Ignite event in Leeds. Imran has the schedule and background details up at his blog - though I've changed my talk at the last minute ;-)

The first OpenCoffee event of 2009 take place on Wednesday 21st between 10am and 12 noon at The Media Centre. Come along! Details here

Weather is against me - today for the first time in 2008 I couldn't get get to work by motorcycle, in fact I couldn't even get as far as the main road for re-frozen slush. Hiking the hills is going to feature more than biking the hills for a while I guess.

While updating my series one 16GB iPhone to OS version 2.2 it all went TU. About 20 percent through the update it crashed out. After 'ejecting', the iphone was stuck in the 'connect to iTunes' icon state. On reconnecting the phone to my MacBook I was channeled into the only option which was to restore the iPhone however this crashed out at about 20% on the progress bar with an 'Unable to restore iPhone' error code (14) every time I attempted it. The fix? So after surfing a load of blogs and forums and trying various options I found the following worked for me: I created a new user account on my mac*, logged into it, connected the iPhone and hit restore. Once the phone was successfully 'activated' I disconnected, logged back in to my MacBook with usual account, connected the iPhone and voila. Well, almost - I've found by experience that the restore from backup option never works for me, so I hit the 'set up as new phone' option. This is a pain...

It's that time again. 4th OpenCoffee event in Huddersfield at the Media Centre, Web Oct 15th - 10:00-12:00. details

The 2nd Huddersfield Opencoffee meet with take place on Wednesday Aug 13th at Cafe Ollo in the Media Centre. More details on Upcoming - do let us know if you are planning on coming along.