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By Adam Wilcox

Adam Wilcox; tea drinking Brit with fondness for the media and tech.
22 Feb 07

Hot Fuzz

From the men behind Shaun of the Dead, comes police action/comedy film Hot Fuzz.

Nicholas Angel, (Simon Pegg) is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. After making his fellow officers look bad, his superiors (Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, and Steve Coogan), send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford....

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19 Feb 07

Tom McRae - King of Cards

I don't normally write about music, but Tom McRae is different. He is perhaps one of British music's best kept secrets. Tom McRae is a singer-songwriter from Suffolk. He's been compared to the music of Nick Drake and Tim Buckley, and his self-titled debut album was nominated for the a Brit Award and the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. Read the rest of this entry »

13 Feb 07

Tea

Alex wrote on Facebook recently about the aesthetically and gustatorally (sic) perfect cup of tea.

Boil a kettle of water.
Warm the pot.
Put three Lapsang Souchong teabags in the pot, and fill with boiled water.
Stand for four minutes.
Pour into a plain, white china teacup.
Add a small teaspoon of honey, stir, allow to cool and sip....

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12 Feb 07

Powered By Kittens

Update
I am now hosted by (mt) Media Temple.

Some of you might have experienced some odd posts in the RSS feed, and flakey availability of the site yesterday. The reason for this was that I was moving the content of WilcosWorld.co.uk 2,230 miles from Alabama to Los Angeles, a trip that Google Maps approximates as taking about 1 day and 7 hours as the crow flies. The wonders of the internet managed it in a little over 12 hours....

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10 Feb 07

His Life in Photos

My good friend Darren, he of 96.4 The Eagle fame, has been set a challenge.

"Every day I will take a photo of something... anything I want and we'll just see what happens! Well there we go... a year on it should be a bloody awesome collage of my life! So here goes: Day 1."...

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