A PC mouse with a top banner saying "don't you just love it when it all comes together", the Mediasurface logo and "content management is the heart of e-business".

30 years today Webdevelopment Ltd was incorporated, which not long after became Mediasurface, the UK's first web content management software company. Was supposed to float on the LSE at what the press said was going to be a billion pound valuation but then the dotcom crash got in the way.

Just got superseded when I got the ZX81 I think and eventually thrown away. The shooting worked by exploiting the way CRTs scan from top to bottom / left to right to calculate the approximate position on the screen.

It still worked after.

A dark room with a long video screen in front, with a left image of green firey circles, a middle image of a karaoke setup and a right image of blue circles.

Trying to remember the last time I saw a multi-screen video installation. Was an interesting piece on crypto mining and its exploitation of abandoned hydro schemes in China, amongst related themes. At the huge new M+ arts centre in West Kowloon, which has a well thought out mix of exhibitions.

The view from Cijin lighthouse with the harbour and city on the left, notably with the two-legged Tungtex building. In the middle are a ragtag bunch of buildings in various colours and just visible on the top right the sea.

A view of Hong Kong island from the Star Ferry, with the exhibition centre in the middle and clouds just hiding the top of the building next to it. In the middle are slightly choppy waves and a capstan with a rope on top of it in front. It's all a bit grey.

From sunny Kaohsiung to a misty Hong Kong.

"Steak" - served up on a hot plate with noodles in tomato sauce, a veg and a fried egg.

Fried mackerel fish noodle soup.

Goat in a sauce served up on rice.

Seafood noodle soup with squid, prawns and clams plus sides of deep fried prawns, squid pancake and deep fried squid heads.

Food edition. All from small nearby places.

Kaohsiung main station lower concourse, with stone-like ceiling panels, a large skylight in the centre, with right in the middle some organ pipes for what looks like an art installation.

A local train carriage with a blue and yellow "Real rail" wraparound with cartoon characters.

An older Hamasen to Cijin ferry, seen through the back of one of the other ferries.

A tram arriving at a light rail station, with grass growing between the tracks and people waiting on the opposite platform. The trams are battery powered with quick overhead charging at each station.

Transport edition.

A street of row houses with coloured blinds overhanging the front of the houses, with a pigeon loft in yellow and red balanced on the roof of the middle building.

Always like Taiwan's somewhat precariously balanced pigeon lofts. This one is quite restrained compared to some. Big gambling industry on the pigeons.

A throng of people in the centre with banners at angles sticking out from stalls which have bright lights.

A man and a girl sit at pinball / pachinko type games in a stall on the left while the stall on the right sells sugar-glazed strawberries and other fruit on sticks.

Large pans cooking egg pancakes, soup and noodles at a stall. This would have been a better photo but I stuck my finger over the lens...

Takoyaki-like baby octopus snacks being cooked in trays.

Chaozhou night market near Pingtung.

A white dinosaur-like illuminated inflatable - a time travelling monster - in a large field with trees behind and a cloudy sky.

Huge blue tentacles with orange suckers rising from a traditional building.

More large-scale art at Chengcing lake.

An abstract horse with neon-like edges and shimmering panels beside illuminated plants.

A small food truck selling Korean-style chicken with a large Squidward in the middle of the open front.

Gangshan's neon-themed lantern festival.

Ultraman rising from Kaohsiung harbour with people taking photos in front and tall buildings across the water behind.

Night market with food stalls behind the tram / light railway bridge.

Running behind on posting. Was intending to take a better pic of the special night market but food kept being handed to me.

An inflatable with yellow eyes and white head on top of a boat from the Japanese Ultraman TV series. On the left are other boats with a pedestrian bridge behind while on the right a TV crew waits to film.

Kaohsiung harbour Ultraman inflatables.

A large encutified figure of Mikan wearing a station staff cap, surrounded by plushies, stickers, bags and other merchandise.

Impressive amount of merchandise for a metro station cat. TfL may be missing an opportunity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikan_(...

Entrance to the market with lots of people in front, a stall behind selling New Year things and bright lights from a shop on the right with bags of dried goods.

A woman in front of a stall where everything is red with gold: lanterns, banners and hanging things.

Sanfong Jhong St market last night, the place to go for New Year things and just about anything that can be dried: plants, meat, fish, seafood, seeds.

Sly And Robbie - Boops Here To Go [1987] Official Music Video Remastered @Videos80s YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s

RIP Sly Dunbar. This was my (rather late) entry point to discovering his work, one of those records that LWR played and played. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIs...

At the front Police in hi-vis jackets look at a petrol tanker that has driven through a wall. On the right is an army tank on a lorry behind containers. Beyond that is a motorway with more police vehicles then warehouses and fuel tanks behind that. There's a lot going on...

Ten years since visiting Jimmy Cauty's wonderful model dystopia in a Southwark railway arch. Would love to see this again.

Failed attempt today at retrying a stretch of the New River south of Cheshunt as it's still closed for work so did a twisty route round to Waltham Cross instead. Datacentre looks like it's heading to completion.

A view from the top of 22 Bishopsgate in London looking East-ish with tall office blocks in the foreground and the Thames twisting towards Canary Wharf with Tower Bridge on the right.

From Horizon 22 on a misty day before Christmas. Had never thought about how many buildings had large cranes lurking on their rooftops before.

Their Coliseum Cinema in Morpeth was for a while a nightclub which still showed films earlier in the evening which customers would watch on the screen across the dancefloor. cinematreasures.org/theaters/39741

Family strikes gold at the pier IVOR FIREMAN’S green Romany caravan has sat on Brighton Pier for nine years. The 69-year-old tarot card reader, whose brightly painted sandwich board boasts of television appearances and corporate

Reading about Brighton's Palace Pier being up for sale, was reminded of earlier owner The Noble Organisation, a 'secretive' family business who also owned Aberdeen Steak Houses, a chain of hair salons, lots of high street amusement arcades and some cinemas. www.thetimes.com/uk/article/f...

I thought I read once that Moroder didn't like Cowley's mix so perhaps he blocked it until then?

First Hand Experience In Second Hand Love (Extended Dub) YouTube video by Soft Cell - Topic

RIP Dave Ball. There's the pioneering Soft Cell 12" singles obviously but The Grid's first album, Electric Head, I still play often - some terrific songwriting and quirky production. Liked the recent Giorgio Moroder cover too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUrg...

Posted it before, but this paper on the sound and music of fairgrounds is great: ledbooks.org/proceedings2... (PDF)

Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...

The contribution of funfairs to music culture is under-reported. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Also from the depths of the MGM library watched the not great Day of the Animals, which led to discovering that Wikipedia has a page on natural horror movies organised by species. More bees than I expected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

A man stands waving at a departing train at (I think) Marylebone Station.

Two dressed up, out of place women in front of large machinery under construction in a huge factory.

Amazon's latest dump of films from the MGM archive includes Lindsay Anderson short The White Bus from 1967, which has some lovely composed shots.

Nótt, by Skurken 11 track album

Bandcamp Friday purchases... This from Skurken is rather good. touched.bandcamp.com/album/n-tt

Looking north along the Lee Navigation with canal boats on the right and an cleared for construction on the left behind temporary fencing. In the rear is the tower of the rubbish incinerator with clouds of steam and two large cranes.

Loop round past Tottenham Marshes this afternoon. Not much change in this view since the spring. Canal & River Trust had a gazebo at Stonebridge Lock where a woman sang decent covers of old soul tracks in the drizzle to zero audience.

Not a someone but a fox - apparently them chewing through the cables happens a lot round here. The engineer said there was a theory that they have a taste for the protective fibres surrounding the active fibre.