I thought it could be to describe the places you visit by the music you hear while you are there. As an experiment, I used Shazam to tag songs I heard in shops on my recent trip to China. What do they say about the places I visited?
I came across this quote by Stuart, a British Born Chinese (BBC) in Race and ethnicity: culture, identity and representation By Steve Spencer. It reminded me of the saying, “Home is where the heart is.”
I was born in England in Leicester, spent most of my life
in the UK, went over to HK when I was [...]
These grid-based cartograms by the Worldmapper project depict the population distribution of the UK and China. Areas of dense population are expanded to give the strange maps that you see. I saw these in the Metro, but if you are interested in finding out more, or seeing similar maps for other countries, head on over [...]
This year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to legalise my music collection. Since writing that post I haven’t given it much thought. Now, with only a couple of months left in 2009, I’ve given some serious thought to how I might go about achieving this. This renewed thought was, in part, prompted by [...]
Yesterday evening I received the following Tweet as a direct message. Normally I wouldn’t publish direct messages but I have permission from @Joerup to publish this one as I believe it highlights something quite astonishing about just how much a part of daily life social media has become.
As I walked past the local pub on my way home from work, I witnessed one of the regulars lift his feet up to allow a street sweeper to sweep underneath the tables. As I passed, I overhead the following conversation.
Publican: “Why do you do it?”
Worker: “Need the money.”
Publican: “How much it pay?”
Worker: “£10 an [...]
Last weekend my friend got married. They got married in a small church. His parent’s-in-law live on a farm. After the wedding, we all went to the farm, ate a banquet and danced. On Saturday we slept in a tent. I really like camping, but my wife wasn’t so comfortable.
上周末我朋友结婚了。他们在小教堂里结婚了。我朋友的老婆的父母住在农场。婚礼以后我们都先去农场，再吃喜宴，再跳舞。星期六我们在帐篷里睡觉了。我真喜欢露天宿营但是我老婆觉得不舒服。
The design of the #MandarinMonday website is centred around having an archive of all tweets tagged with the hashtag #MandarinMonday. Rather than write a stand-alone script to search Twitter and archive these tweets, I decided to package it all up as a self contained Wordpress plugin. I am now sharing this plugin (my first ever [...]
