And seeing as it's been lots of geekery over the past few days...

Here's a talking cat (sort of) to redress the balance.
If you fancy even MORE animal-related silliness, you could do a lot worse than checking out the biggest online resource for lolcats :)

Nice overview of the Digg revolt...

Is available here . Looks like Digg will be OK (though with the possibility of litigation somewhere in the future) which is a relief.
Twitter continues to fascinate me, got added by lots of random people yesterday, all of whom cease to become random once they're under the twitter umbrella *struggles with lumpen analogy*
It's led me to peoples blogs, to ideas, to a community of users. Job done, then.

One of the wonderful things about the new job...

Is its location: I absolutely LOVE being in Soho. Popped out for lunch today, past The Blue Posts, the market traders furtively playing poker outside Yauatcha, the brothel madams on the pavements of Berwick Street, having a crafty cigarette in the sun, dripping in cheap gold and sporting battered slingbacks and velour tracky bottoms: there are children playing in the school yards, people practising Tai-Chi in the grounds of St.Anns church....
I'm loving London, and loving life.

Yesterday...

Was the most amazing day on the Internet EVER.....full details here, also here,and here.
It might seem geeky, but the implications are bigger than you might think. I suspect that those implications will start to show themselves once the dust settles. It's not even about whether we even USE the key, it's about the power that communities have, and also how they choose to exercise that power, for better or for worse.

Natas is THE MAN

This is what i'd like to be doing today.

At my Desk.......

Just put this CD into itunes, despite the fact that it's got a HUGE crack all the way through the actual CD. Amazing, was expecting it not to work, but despite a couple of audible clicks at the start of the first track, it's fine.
I'm also loving Twitter at the moment, particularly the fact I can post updates from my phone (expect one from the pub a little later on)
If there's anyone out there who wants to join me, my Twitter page is right here.

Blimey!

How does 215 Wu-Tang MP3's grab you?
FILL YOUR BOOTS :)

What a day.....

Thanks to all of you that left kind comments on yesterday's post, it's nice to know you've made a connection with people, sometimes it's easy to forget that when it's just you and a microphone in a studio somewhere.
Yesterday continued on its merry way after the show had finished, a little lunch, some cake (thanks Marsha)and 40 winks, then off to the first of two DJ gigs, Planet Hop at the Light Bar in Shoreditch. wicked gig, played some SERIOUS tunes: "Lisa Baby" by Father MC, the new M.I.A. single, lots of Diplo remixes (the Turbulence one is incredible) and found the time to play "Drum Pan Sound" by Reggie Steppa as well, which always makes my day.
Once that was over, it was into a cab and over to the Islington Academy to DJ at the 25Th anniversary Theatre Of Hate gig....more serious tunes, this time from a different direction: "H-Eyes" by the Ruts (with the crowd singing along!) "Future Daze" by Penetration, "Fatman" by Southern Death Cult and "Emergency" by 999...
TOH were on top form, they played a blistering version of "Nero" that stopped me in my tracks, the years just fell away as I remembered taping it off the Peel show in my bedroom in Wiltshire as a 14 year-old kid....
And today? Well, I'm in a secret London bunker location, working on "The Project" (see below) It's sounding great, looking great, and it's a beautiful day in London Town (from what limited view I have of the sky)
Change is in the air.

It's a momentous day today.

Why?
It's time for my last show on Xfm. Over the last few months i'd been increasingly marginalised at the station (which isn't really an issue, those of you with long memories will remember it's happened before) but there was somthing else: I'd stopped believing in Xfm. The tone of the station changed, it's ethos shifted, and certain elements of the content clashed with what I thought we should be representing.
So, it's with a heavy heart but a very clear conscience that i'm finally leaving.
There may be some of you that are wondering where i'll fetch up next....
Well, I can't really tell you exactly where it will be (there's a certain element of secrecy involved) but, a couple of points....
1) It's not another radio station.
2) It's got something to do with the web.
3) It'll be AMAZING.

There'll be URL's and e-cards soon, there will be explanations and exhortations to join me, but not just yet ;)
Any questions?
iain
x

Sunday Morning....

And i'm in the studio, doing the show. It's lost a lot of its sparkle, this radio thing; for one thing, Razorlight are absolutely dreadful. With a hangover and a fuzzy head, they are starting to resemble the devil.

My new favourite skater.......

...is the one and only Gary Lumpkin.

At the start of another long week.....have some of this :)

Post from my sick bed......

Yep, it's that time of the year again, i've been laid low with one of those evil 48 hour head colds....
The Sun Kil Moon CD has been the salve for my tortured soul.......there's a track here and all the info you need can be found here.

Hey Neato!

(I know you're lurking.......)
This one's for you:
"Stay away from my bobcat man, he'll tear you to pieces"

I love it when people fire off a great rant.......

Even more so when it's pertinent, well thought out and debunks every myth about having to buy new technology just for the sake of it.
Stop buying products that serve any other master than you.
Related: Don't bother with the iphone, either.
Today has been, if I'm honest, a singularly depressing sort of a day. The weather is closing in over my head; slate-grey and silver clouds teem with fat droplets of dirty rain, the roads are like shiny black snakes, squirming their oily curves beneath the river of cars trying to avoid the western limits of the congestion zone. Work is a tightrope walk between the technical back-end and the brand-management of the on-air strategy and I'm finding it hard to stifle my sighs.