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Category Archives: Blog

The irritations of social media

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but you know how it is. Like this site, it’s much easier to do work for someone else than it is to do it for yourself – there’s loads I need to finish off but it’s always bottom of the list. Anyway. One of the great [...]

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DJing TONIGHT!

Yes exciting isn’t it? First DJ ‘gig’ of the year in Manchester, with Barrie ‘Striker’ Leach. 7″ vinyl only, 8-11, Bay Horse, Northern Quarter, Manchester. Free in, obv. Why not come down? Eh? WHY NOT?

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Thanks to Sucuri

And no thanks to the hackers. Fantastically, I got a malware installed on the website, which then went on to infect EVERYTHING on the same server. That was helpful, especially as, because I’m on a Mac most of the time I didn’t notice. Thankfully the nice people at Sucuri sorted it out for me very [...]

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Hacienda Records

I got a promo email through today promoting another of Peter Hook’s ventures, ‘Hacienda Records UK’. Presumably because ‘Factory Too’ had already been taken. On the one hand it’s fair enough that Hook is using his past to make a bit of money now, as if the endless Factory hype mill is to be believed [...]

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8 Websites you need to stop building

This is pretty tremendous: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop

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