If you know me pretty well you’ll already be familiar with the fact that every year myself and two good friends collaborate on a story together. They’re by no means literary masterpieces but they serve an entertaining purpose, for us at least. It began six years ago when we decided to try writing a book [...]

Today I promised Jon Hickman on Twitter a story about a mix tape. As it happens I have two, so here they are.
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The year is 1985, Britain had just put the first man on the moon, spokey dokeys were revolutionising bicycle wheels, Margaret Thatcher had just released her first lingerie range and Sony had launched [...]

This week Royal Mail unveiled the 10 album covers they are releasing as stamps. This includes Tubular Bells, Led Zeplin, Coldplay and so forth. It got me thinking what MY choice would have been. After a short period of thinking sensibly I then lapsed into sarcastic and facetious, which is much more fun. So with [...]

With the bitter temperatures, cold wet ground and poor visibility you could easily be forgiven for thinking our great British Summer had come early, but no, this is winter. Hells teeth it’s cold! As britain grinds to a halt and snowboarding toddlers take over, here’s a few snaps of the frozen stuff for the record.

Last night there was a cracking Halloween party at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham, luckily for us, where we work at Adhere. The evening consisted of;

the overly ornate and elaborate reception of the studios converted into a dark, candle lit dungeon of a room with cobwebs, hanging bodies, spiders and so forth
a spooky live band, dressed [...]

This was flying around the office today and made the geeks amongst us smile. As simple as it is it really does sum up what most of us do who don’t know how to do something on a computer. If you’re one of the ones doing the ‘asking’ then why not try following this diagram, [...]

Today Louise came across a double page spread in Visit Birmingham’s Pocket Guide for 2009. It basically gives you an example 48 hour itinerary for a weekend in Birmingham. Reading it reminded me just how much to do there is in Birmingham, but looking at it in more detail I considered; could I afford this [...]

This morning a dog war has errupted at Fazeley Studios. Due to some anonymous complain(s) the landlord decreed that dogs are to be barred from the building. A procession of emails have come forth, mostly from outraged dog owners protecting their constitutional right to bear dogs, as well as some people supporting the ban. I [...]

It must be friday. This morning’s ‘team meeting’ finished witha  discussion about Google’s Chrome OS, potentially released next year. It’s supposed to be a lightweight OS based on Linux ideal for notebooks. Inevitably this led to the usual round of ‘Vista Bashing’ where we sit around Kam’s computer, click ‘Internet explorer’ then run a book [...]

Thoroughly enjoyed both the live radio commentary and the final few hours of action itself over in the Jewelery quarter this morning. A storming finish to the 24 hour scalextric race organised by the excellent Stan’s Cafe.
Some photos shown below.
From the Stan’s Cafe website:
24 Hour Scalextric @AE Harris, 13th and 14th June 2009
http://www.stanscafe.co.uk/24hourscalextric/index.html
Timed to [...]

Since we’ve spent quite some time in recent years developing for the open source content management system Drupal, everyone at Adhere has decided to contribute to an online resource of some of the most useful snippets for functions and theming in Drupal. So with this in mind we have added a new section on The [...]

… but he doesn’t know why.
Thanks to Kate Manion at Fazeley Studios we now have our four speakers confirmed for our collaborative MindMap event as part of Fazeley Digital 09 at the start of June. The four speakers who will start the creative process are:
Marc Reeves - Birmingham Post (@marcreeves)
Jon Hickman - Birmingham City University [...]