Cooling tower word cloud for Sheffield blog

Wordle.com uses cooling tower template? Just a quick post to show the Wordle word cloud that I generated for this blog. It is dead simple, just past in text, a feed for a blog (or any web page that generates a feed) or a del.icio.us user name and Wordle generates a cloud representing the most [...]

A taster of Music in the sun

Four performance that I will be keeping an eye on during Sheffield’s upcoming music festival So the Music in the sun website has gone live, along with the usual MySpace plus Facebook fan and event pages. A few of the acts have caught my eye, and at just £9.50 for a two-day advance ticket, it [...]

The Great Sheffield art show and Sunfest beer festival at the Rising Sun

Celebrating art and beer: two things to do this weekend Looking for a piece of original artwork to hang in your home? The Great Sheffield art show, now in its is twentieth year, is reportedly the largest art show in the north of England featuring over 1,400 exhibits and attracting thousands of visitors. It takes [...]

Ten ways to improve Sheffield (part two)

Part two of the post that collects together a list of ideas to improve Sheffield (parts one to five) Address the spiralling cost of public transport Ever before the price of petrol started going up, the bus fares in Sheffield were unreasonably high. In London, you can hop on a bus for 90p using an [...]

Ten ways to improve Sheffield (part one)

Part one of a two part post, identifying ways that the city can be improved. Here are numbers one to five (not in any order) Sort out the traffic congestion Is traffic congestion in Sheffield really that bad? According to this report Sheffield traffic is in the top 10 slowest-moving in the UK. If South [...]

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