After hours

A place to share your insider knowledge of the best places to unwind where you live or work. Everything from cafes, bars, pubs and restaurants through to galleries, venues and events.

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Formula One: Finextra Fantasy Grand Prix

Well, the Grand Prix season is over for another year. All that remains is for Finextra to award the bottle of champagne to the winner of the Finextra Formula One League: And the Winning team is: Kinvig's Krips That'll be me then. Woohoo!!!!!! Thanks to everyone who took part. The 2010 season begins next March, in Bahrain....same again next ye...

03 November 2009

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The internet isn't all good apparently

I stumbled acrosss an article in the Telegraph this morning, "50 things that are being killed off by the internet". Most of the things that are getting killed off seem to be for the better - such as the annual phone calls to your uinsurers when your car insurance is about to expire. Never-the-less it's an entertaining 5 minutes read on...

18 September 2009

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City protests of the past

Working in the heart of the City I have had to adjust to a new form of culture. There is no dawdling and a blessed reprieve from tourists taking pictures of every passing red bus. I have in effect, learned to walk on or be in danger of being walked on. However, come Wednesday, I feel in danger of having my morning route march invaded by people jump...

30 March 2009

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Finextra Fantasy League - Round-up

So after an exciting and turbulent seven weeks, the 6 Nations has finally drawn to what can only be described as an epic close, with Ireland taking their first Grand Slam victory for 61 years (and well deserved it was too). It all came down to a nail biting finale in Cardiff where the visitors beat the defending champions Wales on their own turf i...

24 March 2009

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Waste even more time with your iPhone

While waiting at Kennington station this morning (imagine my usual rant here about how crap the Northern Line is these days) I had time to look at the free newspaper. In fact I had time to read War and Peace. Or write it. There was a full page ad for the iPhone - describing a few popular apps available to download. Well - I thought I'd share the on...

17 February 2009

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London restaurant - Bangalore Express

I'm a huge fan of Indian food - be it generic brit-curry or the more authentic menu you'd find in places like Tooting or the marvellous Indian YMCA just off Warren Street. So I don't take much encouragement to try somewhere new to me. So I found myself at Bangalore Express, just down from Waterloo station towards The Cut. The decor's quite striking...

28 January 2009

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Help! My iPhone has ruined my productivity!

It's temporary I hope - eventually I must get bored with playing Fieldrunners. Anyone still under the impression that the iPhone is not a real games platform should have a look at this offering from Subatomic studios. It's called Fieldrunners and it's a tower defence game, a genre I'd never heard of. The basic idea is you have to defend your patch...

01 December 2008

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Hey Ocarina

As you may be aware I do occasionally suffer from Internet shopping hand, a condition whereby I lose control of my mouse hand and click on the BUY NOW button. It's even worse on the iPhone apps store. Hence I was powerless to resist the lure of the Smule Ocarina. 59 pence worth of quality programming that turns the iPhone into a musical instrument....

25 November 2008

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London gig 25 Nov - The Vince Rogers Project

My mate Vince has a gig on Tue 25th at the Bull and Gate in London - he's had a fair bit of airplay on Radio 2 so should be a good crowd there. Funnily enough I used to be in a band with him years ago. We met at UEA around 1980. When in theory we were studying Biophysics or whatever it was we did, we were instead as often as not messing about in th...

24 November 2008

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Game review: World of Goo

There was a time when computer games were written by a single person - Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum for example. Eccentric, inspired genius. Now they're all blockbusters with massive teams and budgets and quite often don't seem that much fun or inspired. Yes they're terribly realistic. Yawn. Well, enter Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler who got togethe...

24 November 2008