This weekend has been very busy with wedding preparations and socialising. However, I’ve still found time to install the latest version of WordPress on this blog, set up some backup scripts for all my home and work computers, and also to install KDE4 on my laptop. I’m still not sold on KDE4, but I think […]
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Reviews of the latest freely available music
As promised, a few scribbles on things I’ve downloaded this week (mostly from Jamendo). All are rated on the Sound Opinions “Buy it/Burn it/Trash it” scale. Ze first cidi by Delph’ sans les pattes – Very French, but very beautiful, this is a style of music I like a lot but didn’t own much of […]
Feed The Animals!
The new Girl Talk album is now available for somewhere between free and whatever you want to pay for it. I like this stuff, if only because my inner music geek likes to work out where all the samples come from.
Free Music
For anyone looking for something off the beaten track to listen to, http://www.jamendo.com/en/ has lots of free/creative commons music, some of which is actually rather good. I’ve downloaded three random albums to try out, so might write more when I’ve finished listening to them.
Wilco and Wikipedia
Wilco are today’s featured article on the Wikipedia main page. I think this is the 21st century equivalent of New Order on Top of the Pops.
Social networking and splicing everything together
As people may know, I’m a big fan of many of the so-called Web 2.0 technologies (although less of a fan of the term itself). I’ve been blogging since 2001, and like to at least create an account on anything new that comes along, just to see if it can add anything to my online […]
Another free Nine Inch Nails album
“The Slip” now available for free download. I’ve not heard all of it yet, but I thought NIN fans might need this album asap.
A proper geek t-shirt
Wi-Fi detector shirt. An interesting idea, but I don’t think I’d actually want to wear one.
Finally
Doctor Who is back on 5th April.
Catch it while you can
The video for one of the tracks from the new R.E.M album is available for free on the UK iTunes store at present. It’s been up a couple of days so could disappear at any point. The new album sounds really good from the two tracks I’ve heard (Living Well is the Best Revenge and […]