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Things I Like

In an effort to share the good stuff in life, I’d like to add a sort of links page here. This is basically a bit about stuff I find interesting, satisfying, cool or otherwise noteworthy. They are not in any order and could include just about any kind of thing. In keeping with my lack of sorting tools and complete dearth of desire to hack WordPress anymore, I will not filter them in any way…

Union Hand-Roasted coffee is basically the best coffee available in the UK. It is roasted in London and available online. They express a passion for coffee which is admirable and shows completely in the product. They also embrace an admirable ethic in the selection and distrobution of their coffees and also focus in an incredibly interesting way on the education of coffee drinkers–without sounding patronising or arcane. In short, they ‘get’ coffee!

So, go and get some yourself. Online store here.

lifehacker is a blog about making life easier, more efficient and less troublesome. In general, the result is actually to give you something interesting to think about and a different way of approaching your day. Based on the idea of software ‘hackers’ making code better, this gives tips, tricks, advice and reviews to make everything better. lifehacker can be found here.

Stormhoek Wines from South Africa have a unique social marketing strategy and a very tasty product indeed. Their Pinotage is the only one I’ve been able to try due to local Tescos only stocking one, but it was delicious. their site’s definitely worth a look, and they have some very interesting content there too. Stormhoek can be found here.

I have been playing Remo world percussion drums for many years. Their wonderful sounds are paired with a brilliant set of technologies which mean that traveling with a drum is incredibly easy. Any of their ‘Acousticon’ shells are synthetic (as are the Mondo FyberSkyn heads) which means that they will not warp, swell or lose their tone when changing climates. Aside from their affinity for aweful names (mondo mo-fa, and acousticon?), their products are top quality and sound great.

I currently play a key-tunable Djembe and a rope-tension klong yaw, both of which have served me faithfully on two continents for many years.

As a little of my own ‘lifehack’ I attached a bag of rock-climbing chalk to the djembe, so that when I play, the head remains smooth and never sticks or scratches against the head. Remo can be found here. If they take this as an endorsement and want to send me some new toys, so be it.