I came across this on my twitter 5 hours ago
jamierumbelowGoing to The Junction to see Athlete – one of my favourite bands, so I’m really looking forward to it!

Since I live around the corner from The Junction I thought I would tootle on down there. Shock horror £17 at the door and no OAP discount. However, a couple said their son was ill, did I want his ticket? a tenner changed hands and I was in

The place was packed to the gunnels, Athlete have a big following! There even was a merchandise stall flogging CD’s and T shirts..

Why quaint? Well i’ve been going to rock concerts on and off since the 60′s so when Joel introduced the “bands latest single” I nearly died, do people still buy singles? I haven’t bought any physical music for yonks!

No mention of any streams, mp3′s, podcasts, youtube etc etc I asked the merchandiser if I could stick one of their tunes in my iPhone – hoho In the future, maybe he said. Didn’t like to tell him we are in the future!

Why don’t the guys set up a WiFi connection so anybody attending the concert could get latest clips etc etc and why oh why is their no playlist or even better a video of the evening

It just all seems like so yesterday I wonder what Fred thinks when he goes to rock concerts in New York!

Here are some twitters sent from my iPhone during the concert..

Here is the sound level as measured & twittered by widenoise:-

GeoffJonesjust read 119.9db of rock concert noise here: http://widenoise.com/tyDhYZ8 with #WideNoise

Here is the finale as recorded  & twittered by the iPhone:-

GeoffJonesAthlete finale http://post.ly/1GPs

and here is Joel….

The music was pretty good although I kept thinking it would go to C&W any minute. Pity about the guitars packing up every 5 minutes – you can tell they are succesful because they have Richie whose sole job is swapping over guitars on the stage….

More pics on Flickr

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If you have spend time diligently filling in an online form, only to lose the whole thing due to server timeout, browser crash or any of the other myriad reasons that sods law dictates what what will go wrong will go wrong at a critical moment..

Then you need the Lazarus Form Recovery add in for Firefox…..

Pity Sally didn’t have it for her college online application form

PS To recover your form just right click on the empty form and press recover

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Here is an experiment to see if it is possible to publish a slideshow created by Picasa in a WordPress post using Scribefire.

You can see it works but you must insert the slideshow first by using the small right hand arrow :-

and then click on “insert a custom HTML tag”. Paste the “Embed slideshow” content from Picasa into the pop up box. Press Enter.

 Then type your text in the post using the spare > < markers as posiyion markers for yourtext!

Easyish

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I failed to wake up for the #travellinggeeks do in Cambridge UK (Oh OK I didn’t even have a ticket for the sell out event )

However, tonight Sally and I managed to take Robert Scoble out for an Indian at the Saffron Brassiere , it was great chatting to him again after our last time at Reboot all those years ago. Oh and congratulations to him and Maryam for another Scoble on the way….

Excuse  the crap photo but they turned out the lights as we left!

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My very good friend Michael, who has such a way with words, today emailed me “I’ve just requested a PAC from Orange so I am heading inexorably toward an iPhone. You will have to recommend 10 must have apps.”

So here are my favourite apps. (Skewed towards travelling) – In no particular order…

so:

Skype  – Great when travelling to avoid the stupid O2 roaming fees and those £1 for 1 second calls because the folks you are calling aren’t at home.

WifiTrak – Essential when travelling to find those open networks and to move around to get highest signal strength – warning it eats the battery!

Brightkite – finds out where you are and Twitters it – note that the iPhone GPS only seems to work if there is a cellphone signal

SOStorch – converts the iphone to a torch, neat for those midnight soirees to the GOT (Great outside Toilet)

AroundMe – Great if you need to know the  nearest Apple store is 3.500 miles away! or that the hospital is around the corner!

Bloomberg – so you can keep track of your stocks and see how much money you are losing or gaining.

Currency – great for checking out exactly how many Bolivars there are to the pound or if the local dealer is ripping you off.

Facebook – so you can see what your friends are up to and where you should be heading next.

BP Tracker – Not so handy when travelling but good for home so you can see how stressed and unhealthy you are.

Google – quick access to all your google stuff.

TwitterFon – My favourite twitter client – has neat way of displaying which Twitter folks are replying too..

Fatwatch – Another home based app. pretty cool at generating nice graphs like this.

DualLevel – Handy for checking out that the buildings actually are leaning by 5 degrees although I forgot to measure how steep the Inca staircases actually are.

DailyMug – take a picture of yourself every day – pretty neat – my series is here.

NewsUk Lite – Akin to walking past a newsagents stand and glimpsing at the headlines – all you really need to know about what is happening.

WordPress – ideal for posting blog entries, OK I never used it, whilst away

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From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/metropolitan_police_photo/
The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence.

This could be helped by setting up “vantage points” when cordoning off an incident so that camera crews and photographers can do their work. Senior Investigating Officers are reminded to allow media access to crime scenes as soon as possible after evidence gathering is completed.

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Sally seemed keen for me to upgrade my iPhone, checking out the My 02 website it seemed to indicate that my contract had expired on the 9th May:-

However, O2 knows better, after the usual lengthy frustrating call with them , I was told the contract, according to them, expires in December! and no they were clueless as to why My 02 is not the same as there O2

So it looks as if Sally will just have to wait – although I’m tempted to buy a SIM free one and remove 02 from my life with the bonus that I can also use it on my travels with those lovely Peruvian SIM cards at £3 each…..

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