I had another (nice) day off work yesterday and headed into London. It wasn’t a warm day but it was nice for November and at least it wasn’t raining.
Decided to visit the London Eye for the first time and the weather was good enough to give us a nice view of the city. We were lucky as later in the afternoon the rain started and reminded us it was Autumn and England.
No cycling again this weekend as I headed back to Pembrokeshire to see my family. A great weekend away and very relaxing – it’s far nicer there than here in the South East of England!
Didn’t take either of the bikes so I hope to get out on them during the nights this week.
Only just getting around to sitting down and posting this, after almost a week!
Went away last Saturday to Alton Towers, a theme park near Nottingham. Went with eight friends from my old place of work and we had a great time. I’m not a theme park fan but I have to admit that I really enjoyed the rides and the day out with my friends.
The rides were fantastic and by far the ’scariest’ was Oblivion – a ride which hangs you in mid air before letting your drop vertically into a darkened hole in the ground. I left my stomach somewhere behind me on that ride!
We spent the day there before heading over to Nottingham for a night out on the town. We were out pubbing and clubbing until 4am! Fortunately I had Monday off work to recover…
So, no bikes last weekend, only thrills, excitement, beer and dancing! And a hangover.
I have been using Last.fm to track my music habits since April 2007. It, through iTunes, logs all the tracks that I listen to when out with my iPod or in the house.
Since April 2007, I’ve listened to 26,701 tracks (as of this point in time!). That’s an average of 30 tracks per day.
Just found a cool application which checks your Last.fm data and extracts your milestones. Here are my milestone tracks at 5,000 track intervals.
This one will only really be of interest if you’re in the UK…
I remember watching a Bill Bailey show on TV a few years ago and the clip below stands out in my mind. I remembered it this evening and still think it’s a great piece!
So, a little over two years and Last.fm has logged me playing over 22,000 tracks, which equates to an average of 30 tracks per day. That’s a lot of music.
I did have some hiccups with the scrobbling software I was using previously and it failed to ’scrobble’ all my tracks on a couple of occasions so the figure might be slightly lower than reality. Since then, and since it reliably scrobbled tracks from iPods, I have been using the genuine Last.fm software on my Mac.
Last.fm is a great site for understanding your musical tastes and for finding new music. The site suggests new music to you based on your listening habits.
To discover new music, I use Last.fm, Amazon’s recommendations and iTunes. I buy my music from iTunes, Amazon Download, or on CD from Amazon.
Thought I’d post some of my old photos to Flickr this morning. I’ve posted a set from one of my trips out to the US.
I had a good year and a half of US travel, spending a lot of time out in Chicago and the area just outside of LA, to the north. The best bit was that it was business so it didn’t cost me anything! Saw some good sights, met some great people and ate some fantastic food.
The photos posted are from one of my earlier trips during 2006. They were taken on a two week visit: a week in Chicago and then a weekend and a week in LA.
So, a little over two years and 
