Largehearted Boy: Bittorrent Brunch: More about the demise of Easytree. A great weblog, Largehearted Boy, suggests some alternatives. It’s amazing that the legal community don’t realise that as fast as they track and close down these sites, others open up to replace them. Better surely to think about ways to create authorised environments for sharing … Read more
For my birthday I got an iRiver H340. This is a wonderful machine. It’s known in the market as an mp3 player. But it does so much more. It can store 40 GBs of data – that can be mp3s, photos, text (eBooks), data and even videos. It has a colour screen so that you … Read more
As regular readers will know I have discovered podcasts over the last few weeks. I have already mentioned some of the podcasts I have been listening to. My top three at the moment are Richard Vobes, Podcast Paul and Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. One that I have really enjoyed listening to whilst working is … Read more
Lifting, climbing, but doing so very very slowly. From a period of pain, stasis and freezing. Music accumulating, gathering for listening. Music for inspiration. A choice for a working: for a certain mood or mode – 1) David Sylvian – Blemish [a soundtrack from the beyond the realms of pain and falling apart. Still difficult … Read more
One way and another I have a heap of music to listen to at the moment. Try this for size: o Brian Eno & Jah Wobble – Spinner o Brian Eno & Laraaji – Ambient 3: Days of Radianceo Brian Eno – Future Light Lounge Proposal @ Bonn 1998o Can – Tago Magoo Magazine – … Read more
I have managed to get hold of two of the albums by Magazine, an English band of the late 70s and early 80s. I still have these albums on vinyl, but never take the trouble to listen to any of my vinyl collection. The two albums – Real Life and The Correct Use of Soap … Read more
The record industry still wants to wage war with its customers. In the USA lawyers battle for the centre-ground on copyright. Companies see copyright as an issue of intellectual property, as though the creation of artists is a commodity, something that can be owned and controlled by corporations. Well, I was struck by the following … Read more
I’m listening to some pretty mainstream stuff at the moment: REM – Around the Sun Keane – Hopes and Fears Both are in the charts – and both are albums that I’m enjoying listening to at the moment. I’m also delving into a group of greatest hits albums by The Eagles, Queen and Steve Harley … Read more
This is just a short post to point out that Jan Garbarek’s latest album which I reviewed and raved about recently, has been nominated for a Grammy award. It has also been chosen as one of the Songlines magazine ‘Top of the World’ CDs in the latest issue of the magazine. After years of work, … Read more
Follow the link for a review by Norman Geras of the Jan Garbarek Group’s concert in Manchester, England. Norman was less impressed than I was. Same songs, same musicians, different reaction!