Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Some absolute tosser has spent the day tearing around the area in his orange Lamborghini. While I appreciate his taste in vehicles, I don’t appreciate the fact that the offensively-loud engine is drowning everything out – comparable to the planes going over from London City Airport – for the 2 seconds he has to speed up between speed bump and traffic lights and/or roundabout.
The title of this post has been shamelessly SEO’d in the hope that he’s vain enough to input “orange lamborgini” and “london” or “docklands” to see if anyone’s mentioned him. Well congratulations pal, you got my attention. Now fuck off to Silverstone where you can race it properly without interrupting my conversation.
P.S. My grumpiness has nothing to do with England beating Australia at the rugby. Honest.
Tags: australia, docklands, england, lamborghini, london, orange, royal victoria dock, rugby, rugby world cup
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Someone sent me an email asking where I got my tickets to the Tutankhamun exhibition in London, as they’d seen prices on various sites fluctuating. It appears that some companies are charging hefty premiums, being ticket resellers. I can confirm that Ticketmaster are the official ticket sellers.
Get your (official!) London Tutankhamun exhibition tickets from Ticketmaster here.
Tags: london, tickets, tutankhamun
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Just a reminder to those on you in the UK – tickets to the Tutankhamun exhibition at The O2 in Greenwich go on sale shortly. The exhibition runs November 2007 through August 2008. That sounds ample time, but when the exhibition ran at the British Museum in the 1970’s, people had to queue up to 8 hours for tickets. (An ordeal my Dad likes to remind me about every so often.)
Get the tickets with Ticketmaster
Tags: london, tickets, tutankhamun
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I’m drafting this post on the train from Swansea back to London, reflecting (seething, actually) about some of the performances of this weekend’s Rugby World Cup games. (more…)
Tags: argentina, australia, canada, england, france, gareth thomas, ireland, italy, james hook, japan, london, namibia, new zealand, portugal, rugby, rugby world cup, samoa, scotland, south africa, stephen jones, swansea, USA, wales
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
After the Future of Web Apps conference at Excel London there’s supposed to be a Wordpress meetup but the choice of bar yet to be decided. I decided to wade in on the discussion and volunteer my knowledge of the area in finding such a bar. ExCeL’s own site lists a few such places but omits The Fox which is practically on ExCeL’s doorstep. (In fact, it’s called The Fox @ Excel which makes their omission even more intriguing.)
Above: the view from my window (Excel is the big white building in the background)
Here are some of the nearest pubs/bars, along with some relevant links.
- The Fox About a 20 second walk from Excel’s main entrance. HUGE bar but it has to be seeing as most visitors to Excel try this bar first. Can get very busy on event days (or rather, after the event has finished for the day).
- So Over the footbridge from Excel – which is a pleasant walk in itself. Outdoor seating if it’s decent weather. Likely to be less busy than The Fox on an event day.
- Caribbean Scene (highly recommended if it’s sunny)
- Failing the above, the hotels – Ibis, Crowne Plaza, Novotel – all have their own bar (though I haven’t been in so can’t vouch for quality on way or another)
Tags: docklands, excel, london, meetup, wordpress
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