About Me

Nice to meet you, my name’s LJ Rich. I’m talk about technology gadget and tech presenter on TV here in the UK with a penchant for music, technology, sci-fi and general geek-type activities, especially involving social media, technology and music.

My blog posts appear to range wildly from tech and movie reviews to reflections on personal development.

Here are some links to other bits of me

My Website

My Twitter Feed

 

About LJ Rich

From the age of three, LJ Rich sat at the piano, playing stuff she heard from the radio – with both hands, complete with chords. She couldn’t reach the pedals till around three years later. Aged eleven, she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music.

She then went on to complete a degree in Music at Christ Church College, Oxford, and has since sound engineered for Pete Waterman, toured the USA in a Rock Opera band, and played the piano in front of a wide range of audiences from concert halls and corporate balls to Brian May and Bruce Dickinson.

LJ regularly writes and presents for national television and radio, explaining trends and concepts in technology, social media and consumer electronics. LJ listens to pretty much every musical genre, and can talk for ages about the parallels between classical and contemporary music, the power of twitter, and the joy of good science fiction.

 

29 Responses “About Me” →
  1. Just wondering if you want to do a reciprocal link? Seems like there might be some shared interest :-)

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  2. My pleasure (look to your right!)
    My Brenthaven review for your readers is linked below. http://ljrich.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/brenthaven-antics/

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  3. Fantastic (Laptop bags that aren’t boring.. nice!) thank you, I’ll be updating the site over the weekend so I’ll post a reciprocal shortly – and yeah great thanks for the content I’ll post that too. Have a great weekend

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  4. You are my favorite UK Tech and Gadget Blogger. Keep it Rockin’

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  5. Hi Jessica, thanks so much! Anyone who wants to see some incredibly interesting US-based up-to-the-minute music and tech stuff, click here to visit Jessica’s awesome site : http://thedeadhub.com/

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  6. Hi
    I watch you on QVC and love the way you present the technology, gadgets. where can i listen to your music?
    cheers

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  7. Hi Chris, thanks for your comment!
    You can currently hear a sample of some of the relaxing music I’ve composed at http://www.myspace.com/ljrichmusic, and shortly you’ll be able to buy it from CDbaby too (I’ll stick the link here as and when)
    Have a good one,
    LJ

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  8. Hi LJ, thanks for the e mail, Now I found you I’ll check into your sites when I can, its good to keep up on tech while Im away, and if I have someone cute to look at while I do, well its a bonus :p

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  9. LJ,

    Just gotta say I’m so pleased to find a good UK based tech reporter I can follow, you’ve made my day! I’ll be following you from now on. Interested to see your take on computers in music, seeing as you’re a musician too.

    Looking forward to your tweets, lol

    Martin

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  10. Lj you are Beautiful! Mwah!

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  11. Hi LJ,

    Read your interesting review on Muhib Indian cuisine. I’m an Australian visiting London for a few weeks.

    I’d like to try out some good Indian food while I’m there. Can you recommend any other restaurants?

    Cheers,

    Pepe

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    • Hi, thanks for your comment! Pop over to my friends at http://www.qype.co.uk and enjoy, the reviews are also fun to read, I’ve written a few other reviews of Indian cuisine over there, hope you find it helpful!

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  12. LJ!!

    Blimey! Saw you on BBC Breakfast today!
    Blast from the past.. maybe you don’t remember me? (quite possibly).. Running for the number 10 bus in a vain effort to not be late for RCMJD? Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf.. “A box that goes fvzzssst..” etc. etc.. Getting hyper on chocolate and caffeine? .. anyway.. Just thought I’d get in touch and say ‘Hello!’.. Glad to see you’re still doing brilliantly! :)

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  13. You make tech so easy to understand, and your smile is so infectious. Can’t wait to hear your music, no speakers at work :( .
    I just started twittering and love it. You were on of the first I chose to follow, after Stephen Fry (shameless plug for the best twitterer in the world).
    Would love it if you followed me.

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  14. Twitter name daibach98 … see told you I was new to it.

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  15. LJ Rich you are cool!

    Any ideas how I stop the annoying line appearing from under the links on my website? Perhaps I have no choice as I used the free microsoft office website host to design it!! Follow me on twitter indeed facebook if u care 2 find me!! xx

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  16. Hi LJ,

    Just checked out the first couple of episodes of Clickbits…good stuff! If you ever need any help, advice or a sounding board on WordPress, Google Apps, Asterisk or Android then….I’m sure I can find someone ;) Best of luck…maybe you can front up a revival of Tomorrow’s World? :)

    Colman
    @colmanc

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  17. Hi LJ
    apologies for barging in but just wondered what the best email address is on which to contact you?
    @katiemoffat

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  18. Hi, LJ!
    Love the blog! Can you please e-mail me your e-mail? Couple things I’d like to chat about. (You can also check out Bambera.com for more info.)
    Cheers,
    Meaghan

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  19. LJ,
    You recently filmed myself and some of my admins for BBC Click at the VCF at Bletchley Park, is there any way we can get hold of the footage to keep for our records? It was great to meet you and love the video too! Nice one!
    Regards
    Andy

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  20. Scott Stockwell

    December 8, 2010

    Hey LJ,

    I saw you speak on the Analytics day at the IBM Summit at Start in September and I’ve (finally) managed to put a clip together of your presentation as you requested – but I lost track of the person you’d requested it from in IBM or an email address for you – if you could get in touch we can hopefully figure out a way for me to get the file to you.

    Many thanks,

    Scott (IBM) / Pragmatik (most everywhere else)

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  21. Nice site LJ!

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  22. Hey LJ, just saw your great BBC piece on Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame. A few years ago (okay a little bit more than a few) I was a student in the year below you in college. I’ve always wondered whether back then you realized how much you terrified the male geeks like me by playing on the pool table and pinball machines whilst wearing figure hugging dresses. You didn’t even have the common decency to let us win, but trounced our competitive egos as well. Damn you and your multiple talents to hell. ;)
    Love your work. I’m now a fan of yours for the second time in my life.
    Tim

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    • haha brilliant! How are you? I used to love playing pinball in the common room! Nope, no idea about terrifying anyone – I was busy enjoying playing pool and pinball and happy to be in the company of others who liked doing the same :) It was such fun revisiting machines like The Cyclone, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Terminator 2, one of my favourite assignments of recent times.

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  23. Hi LJ,

    As an avid viewer of BBC Click I would like to ask you whether you would like to indulge in a short mention of AmigaOS either on TV or even just an acknowledgement.

    I am sure that’s gonna bring back a lot of memories not only for the team, but any your technie viewers now in their 30-40s who grew up the 80s era.

    Anyway enough of a nostalgic slant… there are rumblings in the AmigaOS world!

    Foreinstance there is a brand new website, I site I am myself involved in:

    http://www.amigaos.net

    Also an all new AmigaOS Netbook is being promised sometime in the next few months with a great price tag we can all afford (provisionally £190-£310)

    http://liliputing.com/2011/10/amigaos-netbook-in-the-works.htm

    lAlso please check this out short and sweet video I but together, yes thats right FireFox on AmigaOS – finally!

    So who owns AmigaOS nowaways?

    http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/

    Finally LJ I can easily put you in touch with the lead software developer of AmigaOS if you want to ask him some questions.

    Thanks for reading and hopefully watching the videos :)

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    • Hi Richard, thanks for your comments which you’ve clearly spent a lot of time constructing! It seems you’re not the only one who looks fondly upon the old Amiga OS. Though I was a Spectrum girl, myself, I appreciate old-school tech. With that in mind, here’s a video I did for BBC Click a while back which looks at the vintage computing festival at Bletchley Park – should be a nice wodge of nostalgia there for you. – enjoy :)

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