James Hooker

An Email from a Justice and Anti Corruption Party Candidate for East Hampshire
Note: A few weeks ago, this candidate had his car firebombed after a parish council meeting in Greatham almost certainly by select people mentioned in this email.
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know that Damian Hinds will be lobbying for your votes at a [...]

I have not updated this thing in ages and seeing as I’ve finally reached the grand olllld age of 23, now seems a good time.
So what’s been going on?
Our awesome little house in Greatham has been sold and may have to move out… sucks a little, but these things happen (a lot it seems…) and [...]

Hi All!
Back home after LUG Radio live, and another great weekend - and here comes the annual review!
The talks I saw…
Rufus Pollock - Open Knowledge Foundation
Rufus was showing the “Open Knowledge Foundation” project, which is basically a standardised apt type repository for knowledge - so we can integrate it into software. Thinking about [...]

LUGRADIO LIVE… the last one! (apparently…) is but a week away, and a little reminder that I shall be giving my talk “Taming The Dragons” at 14:00, Saturday 19th on the Atrium Stage.
The talk is basically going to basically start with me bragging a little about the type of people (investors) I’ve worked with, and [...]

I’ve been meaning to get myself a good guitar pedal board for the last 8 years or so… and finally decided to have a look around the internet to find the best one for me.
First thought: OUCH!!! £££££$$$$£££€€€€€ These things are freakin expensive!
My dad pointed out that on one particular make of popular guitar pedal [...]

LugRadio/Ubuntu/The Internet’s Jono Bacon has embarked on a very interesting journey - How far can a relitivley unheard of musician use the power of community to promote his music?
Let’s show him support, and show the record industry their fate - head over to http://www.severedfifth.com
WARNING: MUSIC LIKELY TO BE SOME SERIOUS HEAVY METAL - BRING.IT.ON.

Yep - I have applied to run the London Marathon 2009. Yes.. this is me blogging, no hoax!

Another gig over and done with, this time it was Kamelot at the Islington Carling Academy, London for the first show of their “Take Over the World” Tour following the release of their album “Ghost Opera”
Firstly, After finding out this week that the Astoria demolition is going ahead this year, I was relieved to find [...]

yep - another post gig post…
Went to see Nightwish at the Astoria last night… erm… WOW. These guys have just become a different animal since replaceing Tarja with Anette Olzon.
The band were just spot on, created an atmosphere that was amazing, worked the crowd - and managed not to fall to the curse of the [...]