Pete Hindle

Genevieve Valentine is a writer and essayist, working in the SF area. She also has an obsession with Catherine Cookson TV movies, where high levels of snark are to be found – although this mainly seems to come out on her Livejournal blog.
Zed Shaw is an important man in the Ruby on Rails world, but [...]

I’ve been having an annoying day of dealing with letting agencies, and was feeling pretty grumpy on my way home. As I idled up my street, my eye fell on an odd piece of garbage on the street:
(I’m just too prudish to have it on my front page, but you can click through for NSFW [...]

As you might know, I’ve moved house. This new house I live in has a cat, which I’m looking after tonight.
So, the first chance it gets, the cat does a runner and I’m left shaking the box of cat kibbles in the back garden and feeling like an idiot. Ten minutes go by, then twenty, [...]

I was shopping with Brian in Morrisons when I noticed how bitter I had become. I turned to him and said “I hate cake”. It’s offical: I’m suffering from some form of bitterness that has subsumed my soul. This state is not unusual for me though; however, I think I’m going to have to say [...]

This blog entry might not look like a lot, but there is a fair amount of words to chew through in the linked files.

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These files relate to the ongoing work of Unnamed Laboratory, and to my coursework within the Digital Media unit. As such, they are here as much for reference as for reading. If [...]

As part of Newcastle’s Science Festival next year, Make Magazine is having it’s first UK based MakerFaire.
This is great news, because it’s IN NEWCASTLE. Where we at the Unnamed Laboratory are based! So what is a Maker faire? Well, according to their website it’s a family-friendly event that celebrates the
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Over the [...]

Over the summer period, I helped develop a one-day course for teaching people Wordpress. Today I ran the first course I’ve done by myself (having had far superior teachers to hide behind in my previous sessions).
They’ve all been graciously hosted by Newcastle’s Polytechnic, and I’ll be posting up links to their excellent websites as soon [...]

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EDIT Seems to be some sort of clash between vimeo.com and the rest of the universe in regards to video hosting. Anyway, go here to see the video in a player (which should be easy to embed but it’s not) and read about why I’ve only made one arts-related video in the past year.

This is the newest NewcastleGraft podcast, recorded with myself, Ben Jones and Mark James.
Podcast Three – click here to download
(One day, I swear I’ll get round to doing the whole iTunes podcast thing. Until then, please just download the file from here.)
In the podcast, we talk about curators and the Sunderland MA in Curating, good [...]