Personalia (page 3)
Soled out?
The innate dignity of a two-tone brogue has been vigorously ransacked by the current crop of fashion twats.
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Finishing FarCry
Finishing FarCry last night brought to an end my long struggle with mutant monkeys, mad professors and obsolete computers. It had been almost a year before I could even play the game after my own mid-spec machine gave up the ghost on all but the lowest display settings available in Ubisoft‘s inaugural next-gen gem. Whilst …
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2005 in Personalia
Society’s nutters
J’s sister gets chased by an odd woman on the Tube. Is society getting more dangerous?
- Originally published: 25 Aug 2005 in Personalia
Bike Bash
Funny what you see when you’re driving home on a Sunday afternoon.
- Originally published: 25 Jul 2005 in Personalia
London
A few words on the July 7th bombings in London.
- Originally published: 13 Jul 2005 in Personalia
Proper ASBO
I heard on the radio about the latest figures for those of the nation’s youth in receipt of an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order for those of you who don’t read the panic papers). Fancy a look at the wastrels in your area? Check them out. They ought to get the old buffers at the Daily …
- Originally published: 1 Jul 2005 in Personalia
PANTONE swatch
As a leaving gift from my current business, I received a PANTONE swatch. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Thanks, J Limited!
- Originally published: 29 Jun 2005 in Personalia
Hot blog with mustard
Isn’t it warm right now? I resigned from my job this week. Caught myself wondering whether my next place of work might have air-conditioning! I’ve been really busy the last few weeks, moving house and getting this new job. The house thing went horribly wrong – the place had been left in a disgusting state. …
- Originally published: 17 Jun 2005 in Personalia
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Lightweight and fizzy but carries barely a hint of the greatness to come!
- Originally published: 21 Aug 2006 in Film
Blame it on the Bellboy
If there’s any proper comedy in this film, I must be Venetian blind.
- Originally published: 19 Apr 2007 in Film
Parenthood
The film that taught us that every family is dysfunctional in some way!
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2007 in Film
Estrella Morente
A shining light of modern flamenco comes to Brussels, bringing three centuries of tradition and a modern sensibility.
- Originally published: 16 Mar 2011 in Concerts
The Yellow Cross
After they scattered into the Pyrenees, the Cathars were hard to trace. So was the thread of this book.
- Originally published: 22 Aug 2008 in Books
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
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Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.