Being a one man operation, AB suffers when said primary contributor is unavailable for comment. 😉 I’ve been dragged away from my various online projects for the past year, but About Brum is returning – and, with nose to the grindstone (with a pinch of good luck) the site will become far bigger and far …
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Want to find out how Town Hall came to be?
Well, you’re in luck. In a somewhat meta presentation at Town Hall, due to take place on Sunday the 20th of January at 2pm, a chap called Anthony Peers is going to deliver “an account of the architectural history of Town Hall from its construction through to it recent renaissance.” Apparently, “Anthony has been researching …
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Technorati blog claim post.
Hear ye, hear ye, I am thereby claiming ownership of this fair blog! Via this link: Technorati Profile This will be deleted soon as it’s done, so don’t bother blogging about it. 😉
Lost And Found at the FXB, a retrospective
I’ve been lazy recently – must update more! I’ve been sitting on this stuff for a while now, and I thought it’d be time to blog about this (especially considering I told them I would!) If you were watching the local events calendar recently, you might have noticed that the 2007 Birmingham Festival of Xtreme …
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The new UCE name? …never mind
You may have traveled to this corner of the Web expecting to see my scribblings about the new UCE logo and how I was concurring with what many other people had already roundly described as a big waste of money and a poorly-implemented rebranding. You’ve just got the short version, but if you’re looking for …
No more lying to Birmingham City Council, then…
…As apparently they’ve just decided to take delivery of a new VRA (Voice Risk Analysis) system for their Benefits helpline, in an effort to reduce fraud (often indicative of lying, just how polygraphs work) by detecting stress in a caller’s voice. Rats. In the first three months of a pilot scheme in Harrow, north London, …
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