In today’s Guardian there’s an interesting piece about this week’s Hartlepool byelection. I particularly liked this paragraph which nicely sums up the state of British politics. On September 8, the byelection was called for the 30th. A tour of the offices up and down York Road that day felt like retracing a cycle of history.… Continue reading The State of British Politics
Guardian RSS Feeds
The Guardian have released a number of new RSS feeds. I think that these are probably based on some work I did when I was working there at the end of last year. If that’s the case, then it will be easy for them to add new feeds for any of their special report sections.… Continue reading Guardian RSS Feeds
Odeon Progress
I’m a bit slow here. This all happened a week ago. It seems that someone at the Odeon web site has a bit of a clue after all. There is now a version of the site which works on all browsers. You still can’t book tickets tho’ and you can’t access most of the info… Continue reading Odeon Progress
Smile
It’s thirty-seven years late, but the Beach Boys album Smile is finally released on Monday – although internal band politics mean that it’s now a Brian Wilson album. Still (very) long-awaited tho’. I’m reminded of the the excitement that surrounded the CD release of Pet Sounds in 1990. Hope this is as good. Update: I’ve… Continue reading Smile
Sim Recusion
Sims playing Sims :-)
Buggles Reunion
It’s obviously a musical nostalgia day. From Simon Bisson’s blog I’ve just learnt of this concert at Wembley Arena which features the long-awaited reunion of the Buggles along with a number of other 80s bands like ABC and the Art of Noise. I’m a little wary of this because of the involvement of Yes. Now… Continue reading Buggles Reunion
Mod Pop Punk MP3 Archive
Lots of blasts from the past here. Bands that I haven’t heard for over twenty years – The Barracudas, The Chords, The Lambrettas – together with some slightly better known bands like Generation X and Jilted John. Ah… nostalgia. Via 50 Quid Bloke (who all aging musos should be reading).
Evening Standard and DRM
Today the Evening Standard gave away a CD that contained some standard audio tracks together with some extra tracks which were controlled by a Digital Rights Management tool called “4Play” (because you can play the tracls four times before you need to buy them). Obviously, I assumed that this was never going to work on… Continue reading Evening Standard and DRM
H2G2 Series 3
Bugger, I screwed up last night. It was the first episode of the new Hitchhikers series. I didn’t try very hard to get home in time for the broadcast at 18:30 as I thought I could catch it on the BBC’s web site. But it appears that it won’t be available there until after the… Continue reading H2G2 Series 3
Ceefax At 30
And while we’re talking about birthdays and anniversaries, CEEFAX is 30 tomorrow.