Hello all. So… a safe choice for the Mercury Music Prize. I don’t think my love of Thom Yorke’s Eraser is any secret, but to be honest I’d have been happy with (almost) anyone else but the Arctic Monkeys winning. Not that I think they’re bad; just that they’re an incredibly safe choice. Of course, […]

Following a little “live like a monk” confusion, I thought I’d reitterate the rules. Inspired by Alvin Hall, money-saving guru and wearer of turtle-necks and bad trousers, as well as BBC3’s “Spendaholics” (I love that programme) I thought I’d address my budgeting before the business starts up. Unlike Spendaholics I won’t be standing in my […]

Well, I did two successful months of living like a monk. Then I met Michelle, and gladly threw all that out of the window, having a most enjoyable month not living like a monk whatsoever (although I did drink more wine than usual, which is a bit monkish I suppose). Anyway, incredibly fun though it […]

Well, had an update on the server issues. Looks like Maltpress.co.uk, JuicyFly.com and Cambridge.IsHome.co.uk will be down for at least a week, as will my email. If you do want to get in touch, [email protected] will be working so you can get me on that. Can’t be sure I’ll get to stuff particularly quickly, though, […]

Maltpress.co.uk has been hacked. Well, the server it resides on has been, so for the moment some of my icons and banners have gone AWOL. Sadly that also means cambridge.ishome.co.uk has gone, as has www.juicyfly.com. Bums. The very nice man who runs it is – I’m sure – currently at work on it. I hope. […]

catchase Originally uploaded by Maltpress. I’ve been helping Tracy with her Gimping. We had fun. She made this.

I need photos of me for my website. I think. I’m not sure – yes, it’ll personalise my site, but most of the photos of me I have ever seen are of me looking somewhat rough, drunk, tired, or all of the above. None of which are particularly professional aspects of myself to show the […]

I’m bored. I’ve being doing something exceedingly dull all day for work and it’s really tough. Now there’s nothing on TV. So I’m going to start a project I thought of a while ago and never did. I’m going to email or write (actual postal letters) to people who’ve made me smile or whose work […]

I just had a most enjoyable weekend. Friday was spent as tour-guide and sober person for a colleague’s night out with some non-Cambridge friends; although there was lots of pressure to find nice places to go, the people were very nice and we ended up having fun. A late, late night though. Saturday meant a […]

Clever me. I managed to truncate my blog post on a link element and break my website layout by effectively removing a div tag. Chances? Low. Rate of occurence? High. Think I’ve cracked the navigation though…