Very interesting article from the Guardian about the whole ticket touts/ebay situation. Getting into the festival mood this last weekend, I finally got round to looking at the videos from last year’s festivals (cheers Pete!). Managed to spot myself in the crowd on the BBC coverage a couple of times. This is during The Doves’ “There Goes The Fear”. Fringe benefit of being tall, I guess (oh, and being able to see over other people’s…

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Chaos on the trains this morning, for the first time in a while. I didn’t mind, of course, as it’s not like I had anywhere important to get to(!), and it was rather pleasant sitting out on the platform in the sun. When I arrived at the station, the backlog of trains that had built up was causing the announcement system to go into overdrive. South West Trains introduced their Customer Information System about a…

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