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Ralston Story I:
When The Cheat and I first visited Grand Rapids in 2004, for Sarda and Kari’s wedding, they introduced us to their Neighbour, Ralston Bowles. As well as having an unusually brilliant name, he was introduced to us as being a singer/songwriter who works for a radio station. A description that could just as [...]

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As part of a social media/blogging/online presence lesson with a student of mine this morning, I got him to generate a wordle word-cloud of the things he was interested in, to feature on his ‘about me’ page.

Which got me thinking, so I put in the URL to this site, and here’s the wordle it produced:

…could there be a finer group of words for a musician/geek/blogger/me-type-person to be associated with?

WIN!

Have you made a wordle for your site? If you do, and you add it to their gallery, feel free to post the link below…

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So, as you know, the saga so far is that British Airways smashed up my bass on the way over here back in Mid-Dec. I emailed them and rang them and was told to ’send them the fragile tag and the bubble wrap receipt‘ - fragile tag was a generic piece of cardboard, and the request for bubble wrap receipt came off like a sick joke, if you’d seen the damage done…

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NAMM so far has been a whole lot of fun - have met up with loads of great friends, checked out some fab music gear, chatted a lot, drank coffee, playing some music on the looperlative booth (and discovered a couple of amazing new Looperlative features - video coming on those ASAP!)

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Here’s the email I just sent to Balance PR: (read the full account of the story thus far here )

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OK, before I start, this post is going to get VERY sad indeed. So if you’re just reading this for a light-hearted update of what’s going on in my life, during your lunch hour at work. Probably best to leave it til later. Bookmark it and come back.

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So, we’ve arrived in Ohio, hanging out with Lobelia’s family.
We flew into Newark airport at the weekend, with British Airways, the plane was very late taking off, late getting into the airport, and we took ages getting through immigration. As a result, I was exhausted and didn’t check my bass out at the airport, cos [...]

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Here’s the story - about 2 months ago, I did some freelance PR work for Balance PR, working on a music promotion thing. The job was at incredibly late notice, but they needed something doing that I was in a very good position to help them with, we agreed a fee and I got on with it.

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Apologies for the blog-silence - life has been v. busy of late, mainly with moving house (if you’re a student of mine and didn’t get the email, drop me a line and I’ll let you know the details!)
Anyway, one of the up-shots of moving is that we’ve had limited access to the internets, so blogging, [...]

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Got back from Italy yesterday, having had a fantastic time. Check out the photos on Flickr or my latest video on Qik for more on that - a lot of the photos were uploaded direct from my N95 phone, via wifi, and the Qik post was streamed direct to the site from the phone, leaving [...]

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