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New server and URL updates

15th October 2004

Apologies for site down-time over the last two days - I’ve just moved CollyLogic to our new Appliance Server over at Media Temple. As a result of switching nameservers, this meant down-time was unaviodable.

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Suicide artwork was not interactive!

7th October 2004

Busy couple of weeks? Well, yeah. Not sure where to start really. There’s been controversy, hedonism, speculation, derision, joy, fatigue - the usual. I’ll share a little of this with you. Let’s start with our efforts to encourage suicide amongst emotionally fragile people.

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You Are Here Opening party 2004

27th September 2004

Friday 24th September saw the masses gather in central Nottingham for the launch of our second city-wide visual arts festival. The venue (a huge former toy store) was completely rammed with beer-seeking contemporary art bohemians, all hell-bent on grabbing some hedonistic art-based fun. Read on for more details, and 106 photos!

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Burgerman/Ehlers - Masters of doodle

23rd September 2004

I’ve just received two copies of Hello Duudle, a new book by my friend Jon Burgerman, and his friend Sune Ehlers. I say book, but the thing is more like one big long fold-out artwork. It’s beautiful.

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Live Search and browser woes

17th September 2004

Inspired (truly inspired) by Apple’s forthcoming Spotlight tool (below), and the Live Search tool created by Chregu over at Bitflux, I’ve implemented a similar search method here on CollyLogic - but not without running into browser issues (it doesn’t work on my Firefox, or on IE Mac, or on early versions of Safari). This is all purely experimental at the moment, but feedback is appreciated. Read on for more…

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Gannin’ doon tah Cambridge, Pet

13th September 2004

Forgive the Northeast colloquialisms, but it was a most interesting weekend. Spent two days with some Geordies (people from Newcastle), Maccams (people from Sunderland) and - erm, people from Cambridge (don’t know what they’re called) in the grounds of Downing College. Considering the bitterly fierce rivalry between the Maccams and Geordies, everyone got on incredibly well.

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Iceland Airwaves here we come

10th September 2004

I’m very impressed with my esteemed colleague Mr. Tebbutt. Worthy captain of the good ship Speakers Push The Air, he’s managed to grab four free press passes to this year’s Airwaves festival in Reykjavik. It’ll be my seventh or eighth trip to Iceland, but my first chance to soak up the sights and sounds of the festival.

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A birthday gig from PJ Harvey

9th September 2004

It’s my birthday. I’m thirty-one years old today. It’s a lovely age to be. Typically, I have been celebrating since last Saturday. This is a purely unselfish method of ensuring I get to see all of my friends over the week.

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My Top 100 Albums of all time

2nd September 2004

Here’s the first of my Top 100s. Every time I’ve had a few minutes to kill, I’ve been adding to and arranging my list of top 100 albums to date. I realise this is incredibly anal, but I do like a bit of order in my life - and I’m a sucker for lists.

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