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A Month In Music

In Fiction, Non fiction, Photography on November 17, 2011 at 9:07 am

Blogs like this are counterintuitive – the more hectic and energetic life is, the quieter they are, despite the fact they’re supposed to be records of activity. I wonder if diaries suffered from the same problems.

Well, life has been full and interesting these past few months. Plenty of things happening at work, but today I’m posting about my own new personal writing project which got underway last week. It’s called A Month In Music. I have all my MP3s in iTunes, and at first it tells you how many hours worth of music you have, and then how many days. I recently realised I had 30.3 days of music in my collection – a whole month. I was fascinated with the idea that I had, over 15 years, accumulated so much music that I could listen to it non stop for a whole month and never hear the same track repeated.

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Best of, 2009 edition

In bit-tech, Fiction, Non fiction, The Wired Jester on January 1, 2010 at 8:42 pm

So that was 2009; full as ever, although work gave up a little room to other things this year – I found the time to work on my photography, and it’s really developed(1), helped, of course, by a near seven week sabbatical break in September and October which took me to beautiful, strange, tasty Southwest China and Maryland and Virginia in the USA. It feels as if I wrote less than in previous years, both outside of work, where my current novel seemed to seize up, and at work, where a bigger team meant more management and less of a need for me to write. On the plus side, there were a few things I really liked from 2009 in terms of quality. They’re linked after the jump. Now, on to 2010.

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