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- Today I'm largely listening to the new record by The Kabeedies. I'm also rejoicing having a proper internet connection again. 11 hrs ago
- Today's musical discovery can be found at http://t.co/U4sP3OwN and is completely free. It's really rather excellent. 1 day ago
- We now have snow, but still have no reliable internet connection. 1 day ago
- Our home network is painfully slow, apart from twitter for some reason. I think I will investigate further. 1 day ago
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Craig Finn (76), Lana Del Rey (37) & The Band (20) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 1 week ago
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The Big Pink (44), Crystal Stilts (31) & David Bowie (19) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 1 week ago
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Crystal Stilts (40), David Bowie (19) & Luke Haines (17) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2 weeks ago
- Today I'm very much enjoying the (fairly) new record by the Crystal Stilts. I can't believe I'd not encountered them before. 2012-01-07
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Los Campesinos! (64), Luke Haines (48) & Tennis (41) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2012-01-01
- Albums of the year is now done and available at http://t.co/ksQJFYQD 2012-01-01
- Happy New Year everyone. It's now officially 2012 in the UK. 2012-01-01
- I think tonight will largely involve mulled wine and Jools Holland. It's becoming something of a tradition. 2011-12-31
- Today I'm really enjoying the latest Los Campesinos! record and wondering why it took me this long to appreciate it. 2011-12-30
- Albums of the year is taking shape, with a good showing for people I communicate with via twitter. I think there is a message there. 2011-12-26
- Home now, after a day with the (extended) family. I ate far too much, but am otherwise full of festive cheer (finally). 2011-12-26
- Happy Christmas to everyone. Here's hoping your festive season brings heath, wealth and happiness. 2011-12-25
- I'm preparing data for Album of the Year. What are other people's favourites from 2011? 2011-12-24
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Half Man Half Biscuit (26), Dum Dum Girls (15) & Los Campesinos! (14) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-12-20
- On my way to Cambridge. On the slowest train ever. 2011-12-17
- Ugh! I hope this sore throat isn't the start of some horrid illness. I have no time to be ill. 2011-12-13
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Luke Haines (40), Los Campesinos! (20) & The Auteurs (12) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-12-12
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Luke Haines (30), Tori Amos (15) & The Indelicates (15) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-12-05
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Luke Haines (49), The Auteurs (33) & David Lynch (18) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-11-28
- Happy thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates such things. 2011-11-24
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Florence + The Machine (25), David Lynch (21) & Jah Wobble (12) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-11-21
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: David Lynch (20), Tom Waits (15) & Jah Wobble (14) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-11-13
- I'm loving the new Tom Waits album. Hopefully I'll have time to listen to it properly this weekend. 2011-10-29
- It's finally the weekend. I'm really looking forward to doing very little. 2011-10-28
- Chores done. Time for Heroes, coffee and food. 2011-10-23
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Ryan Adams (90), Radiohead (37) & HTRK (37) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-10-17
- This week I'll largely be exploring productivity through solitude. I'm hoping this won't be too much of a sanity hit. 2011-10-17
- If I'd known my mother wanted me to shave for tomorrow then I'd not have shaved today as well. 2011-10-14
- iCloud has pinpointed where my computer is to an accuracy of a few metres. Impressed now. 2011-10-12
- I've found the headphones that came with my phone. Sanity will be restored. In other news, I'm loving the Radiohead remix album. 2011-10-12
- Another pair of dead headphones. No music for me tomorrow it seems. 2011-10-12
- iCloud rocks, and has some really interesting features. I did my first remote wipe today and it was remarkably effective. 2011-10-12
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Dum Dum Girls (52), Veronica Falls (31) & PJ Harvey (13) #weekly_music http://t.co/vyfFhr0w 2011-10-10
- I'm glad I'm not out tonight. My energy levels have taken a dip and I need to recharge. 2011-10-07
- KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON Image Generator - brought to you by the Ministry of Information http://t.co/ZNMrx5QT 2011-10-06
- Note to self (and others). The new Ryan Adams record is next week's £3.99 Amazon download. 2011-10-03
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Gnome 2.24 (again)
I think I’ve made my desktop look sufficiently like a default “install”. I really like the look of this, and could very much get used to it.
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KDE 4.1
I’m running RC2 of the latest Mandriva from a live-cd to test a couple of things out, and thought I’d have a look at how KDE is doing. It’s pretty, but doesn’t seem anywhere near as instinctive as Gnome. But … Continue reading
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Dropbox for Mandriva
I’ve built an RPM that installs fine on my installation of Mandriva 2009 (RC1). Downloadable from here, but I’m only prepared to say that this works for me right now, as I’ve not tested it elsewhere. Update: this version of … Continue reading
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My computers
Seeing as everyone in the world is doing it. brick (Toshiba laptop that is my main Linux machine – Ubuntu 8.04.1) kallisti (G5 iMac that runs all my music-related things – OS X 10.5.5) eeepc (new toy that goes everywhere … Continue reading
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Review : Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour by The Rest
I downloaded this album because I liked the front cover. It reminded me of “Funeral” by The Arcade Fire, and I thought that as The Rest were also Canadian they might be operating in the same sort of area. Reviews … Continue reading
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One album a month for how long?
British singer/songwriter Sean Wright has been releasing one full album a month for the past year and a half. A couple of weeks ago I started to dip into these, and have so far downloaded about 30 songs, all of … Continue reading
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Briefly
Kouki deleted all their albums from Jamendo, which is slightly annoying as I’d only got about half way through downloading them. I must have listened to about 24 hours worth of new music this week, and as I’m off work … Continue reading
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Review : 13 Segundos de Caida Libre by Icarus Crash
Icarus Crash are a melodic hard rock group from Malaga in Spain. They sing in Spanish, with a few English phrases thrown in on occasion (I think). As I’m not really a fan of the genre, I didn’t expect to … Continue reading
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Using Ubiquity with google maps
Again, a really simple command to pull up a google map. map B457HJ There is a lot more that can be done with maps, but that will have to wait for another day.
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