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Shamelessly stealing Rob’s post, here’s a rundown of what I’m watching at the moment, apart from the few breaks I take to study

Apart from these regulars, I’m looking forward to checking out Jericho and Criminal Minds. I also am sorely missing Veronica Mars so might check out ‘Chuck’ as Rob suggests.

So, apart from studying, I’ve decided to make full use of the great collection of gigs in London by going slightly crazy on Ticketmaster. Listed below are the gigs I currently have tickets for. If there’s a (*) after the name, then it means I have a spare ticket…so get in touch!

The Fray & Pete Yorn (* but a lot of interest so far!)
Maroon 5 & Dashboard Confessional (taking my youngest sister)
Mika
Seth Lakeman (*)
Plain White T’s (*)

Still to book:

The Thrills
Kate Rusby

I love London.

I’ve just returned from a very relaxing 4 days in Switzerland. We stayed in a mountain-top town called Leukerbad and enjoyed thermal baths, a cable car ride up to c.3000m and lots of good food and wine. We explored the area around Brig in the canton of Valais, known for it’s extremely high amounts of sunshine and great wine. I think I discovered one of my favourite places in Switzerland as well, a village called Rosswald at 1800m. All the photos can be found here.

Now, I’m preparing to return to study at College of Law, starting the LPC on Thursday. I’m looking forward to getting back to my legal studies, despite having had over a year away from education! I’m sure I’ll have more to report on this weekend.

I’m a huge fan of Last.fm, with all the music I play being scrobbled through the site. Down in the bottom right, you can see an ‘album quilt’ and a list of what I’ve recently been listening to. You can even go and view my profile and listen to my own radio station here.
I can 100% recommend signing up and having an explore of the site; I’ve discovered many a wonderful song through the site. I’ll leave you with yet another version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah:

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass – Official Teaser

I’m extremely excited about the release of Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass if you are in America). The teaser does not show completely finished CGI rendering, but by the sound of the buzz on various sites, they really wanted to get this out quickly!

Just a quick request for design help. I’ve been playing about with many different themes here, and have settled (for the moment) on the one you can see now…it’s basic, looks a little rough round the edges but hopefully you can see what I’m trying to do. I’d like to have my Last.fm profile, delicious account, Corkd cellar, ClaimID widget and all my other web ‘properties’ included in one or two sidebars. I’d like to use a good 4 column theme if possible, as this blog is going to be 50% news and 50% aggregating my online activities.
Anyway, I’d appreciate any theme/design suggestions. The next job is to properly integrate Twitter and Flickr.

Now this site is well and truly search-engine ready (I think) and has links to my various professional profiles around the web, I will probably start posting up personal news, stories and so on when I see fit (or have the time)! I will also flesh out the ‘About Page‘ with some pertinent information. In the future, I imagine this will become my permanent ‘home’ on the web.

In an effort to take control of what people find when they search for my name, I have set this site up to be a general repository for all information about me, whether professional, personal or social.
I shall post up a brief CV/resume in the coming days, as well as contact details.

Thanks to Jason Kolb for some tips on controlling your online identity.