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Pleased to say that so far the domain transfer and site migration have gone smoothly. You may have seen a slight disruption Friday 9th July 2010, but if you didn’t that means I did good on this one :)

I’m just about to start a migration of this site to a new hosting account. Please excuse any downtime over the next few days. It’s a big job and I’m sure as every web person will know, not a nice job but it has to be done.

Is it really true? OMG, squeeeeeeee, we saved the best radio station in the country from being closed!

Time is a currency that seems to being spent before I know it at the moment. There’s so much going on in my life right now and it’s all rather very exciting! I can tell you it’s gonna be awesome!

On the way back from a trip to Weston with photography friend, Ian Egner, we dropped by the Severn Suspension Bridge. Ian found the best spot via GPS and we found ourselves in quite a location as the day was fading!

Flickr Friday then is going to be a raid on the pics that I’ve faved over the 5 years I’ve been on flickr, having amassed over a thousand faves, I think it’s about time they were shared too!

Caldmore in Walsall just played host to its first village festival over three days and I have to say it seems to have been a huge hit, attracting over 5,000 people. It was a great show of various cultures coming together.

I found myself in Weston Supermare with a nice cool breeze, a walk in the sea and a visit to the Sand Sculture Festival, which was just amazing!

I’ve been so motivated by this issue that I’ve asked for information from our local transport authority on what plans are to improve local rail. However will the High Speed trains rob our cash?

Natty I believe is a modern day mirror of Marley, with a contemporay edge. At Wednesday’s gig, he told us what the deal was with the EP, hence the blog post about this innovative idea!

Spring did finally get here after the prolonged winter spell we had. I quite like this, a daffodill had broke off and fell to the ground in the Arboretum, so I had the idea of holidng it up to the sun to backlight it.

The Created in Birmingham shop, sells works from the local creative community and if you plan on visiting, best make it sharpish, the three month stint in the Bullring is coming to an end on May 23rd!

There are some rather cool things that have already happened very recently; In this blog post you find out what I’ve been doing for the past oooh, 6 weeks or so! Never a dull moment!

when I suggested on the Save 6Music Facebook group, based on branding that, perhaps 6Music could be kept but under the “Extra” brand as Radio 2 Extra, I didn’t realise it may catch on, but it may have!

Quite an interesting series of blog posts and tweets have popped up in my circle of contacts, pondering the notion that media was social long before social networking, behold, the mixtape!

I returned home Easter Sunday to a scene of no traffic lights again! Upon getting home though there was no power to the appartment complex and alarms going off, like something from 28 Yams Later!

We’re not yet finished with the destruction of digital radio in this country! The BBC are twisting the knife in DAB’s heartland; niche station choice, why go digital when there’s no station choice?

I find the current situation on Digital Radio Switchover in the UK rather baffling. The DAB Digital Radio platform isn’t fit for the purpose, but there is a deeper question. Do we even need radio in the digital world?

I’ve decided to make more of what’s here at home. We’ve got a great country and so this year I want to visit places here on the doorstep. First up Leamington Spa.

I have been in search of self help while awaiting investigations into why I’m so sleepy at the moment, I’ve found an excellent semi-hypnosis app for the iPhone. It’s called the ABC of Better Sleep.

Whoever thought an iPod could help you analyse the movements you make in your sleep and use that data to wake you up at the best time?

There’s quite a few things I love about the World Wide Web, that allows people to connect with each other on astronomical levels as never before even if they don’t know a thing about each other.

Last week Freeview HD roll out plans were offcially announced; the signals will be coming from Lichfield and before the World Cup, read more!

I love the bubbling Social Media scene in Walsall and wider Black Country region, there are a lot of highly talented visionaries in our bostin towns, none more so than Walsall Council.

I was looking for a CMS, in the end I chose Mambo. It really helped introduce me but it seemed too complex too clunky and a bit limited. Wordpress saved the day, read how!

Heather Champ, flickr.com’s director of community arranged to meet the Birmingham flickr group while she was in town for the Hello Digital festival 2008!

The Guinness book of records confirms that at over 100,000 photos, this is (as of August 2008) the current largest photo mosaic in the world, created by folks in the Midlands.