Here is Robert Owen Brown, doing a roast dinner in his car park. The Angel pub is great, it's like a piece of the countryside in the city centre. www.theangelmanchester.co.uk

75mph winds in France and heading this way!

Finally, the last of the evil candles fizzles out and everybody has survived, although Spike is shaken

Part 2 of the baddest candles ever made, starting to die down a bit now

The maddest, baddest Birthday Cake candles ever

Handcircus has posted his port of the open source physics engine Box2D to iPhone (he made Rolando with it). Here it is compiled in XCode. I've just dragged a load of squares out of the middle of the pyramid as if a bomb's gone off!

Forgoing a Friday party night for iPhone app development. Hello World! (Goodbye life)

Getting to grips with Interface Builder and learning about Objective C - this is my first proper night in iPhone app world. Erm, hello world.

Researched the site of the fire on Google (thanks to #andylockran for getting the site number - 57 - right). The site looks to be of the new Sarah Tower. Here is a photo of the site in daylight prior to the tower. Picture (C) Nick Grayson 2008.

The building in the city centre on fire appears to be a new development of high spec apartments - oh dear.

Here are the fire brigade doing their business.

We have found the building which is causing all the smoke - it's on fire :-) as you can see, maybe 6 or 7 levels effected?

Fire spotted in Manchester city centre tonight, here is the smoke blowing North East across Rochdale Rd by the Skyline Central apartments.