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Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 25/11/2008 | 3224 views

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...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 24/11/2008 | 2440 views

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 t...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 24/11/2008 | 2023 views

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...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 18/11/2008 | 2029 views

London Pub - The French House

I say pub - it's kind of something more. Yes there's a restaurant upstairs but it's not just that - it's genuinely different and a little eccentric. It's tiny. It's packed. The walls are packed with interesting photos. It also has a bit of a history of being interesting, Charles de Gaulle drank there during the second world war for example. Maurice...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 17/11/2008 | 2651 views | 1 comment

London Pub - The Lamb

You'll find The Lamb tucked down the end of Lamb's Conduit Street and a short 10 minute stroll from Holborn and Russell Square tubes. The street is also home to one of my favourite bike shops - Bikefix - home to all manner of weird and wonderful urban bikes. The street and pub are named after William Lamb, a philanthropist from the 16th century wh...