Archive for the 'Media' Category

A beautiful video

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I’d been working on this for a while. I finished by adding the vocals, when I realised you could plug a Rock Band USB microphone into a Mac, and it would work.

I’ve thought for a while that Christina Aguilera’s song deserved a fast, loud, and slightly caustic rock version, and I finally got round [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Remember ambient dub? ‘course you do!

Now I come to think of it, I should have strapped a couple of mini maglites to my ears.

My Christmas gift to the world

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Don’t say I never do anything for you. I may even have got it in before you heard the original for the first time of the year in a shop.

Back from the dead

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

My cyberstalker has been missing my words of wisdom so much that he emailed me to complain. So what shall I write about?
Trips to various Merlin Group theme parks? Taking up Scuba diving? Making soup? A nice weekend in Monmouthshire celebrating mum’s 60th birthday?
No, I’m going to comment very briefly about The X Factor.
I [...]

30 Days of Night

Friday, August 29th, 2008

This is not a review of the film 30 Days of Night, because I’m too lazy to do that. Alright then, quickly: rather scary monsters, well done gore, ultimately doesn’t hold interest long enough.
Review ends.
No, what I really wanted to do was release some pedantry about the setting. It’s explicitly set in Barrow, [...]

O’Reilly eBooks

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Google has an informal company motto, ‘Don’t be evil’. I wonder how that’s going, when there’s pressure from governments and shareholders. Privacy advocates are already doubting.
But enough of Google. Has O’Reilly Media ever done anything evil? They always seem squeaky clean, virtuous even.
Having published PDF and HTML versions of many of their books for [...]

My CDs: 2: Paul Anka

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Last Wednesday, I told you that the credibility of the artist in this weekly alphabetical look at my CD collection would rise sharply this week, then plunge next week. Actually that was based on a mis-sorted CD shelf. Next week’s plunge was to be Bryan Adams’ Waking Up The Neighbours. Due to the mis-sorting, [...]

The countries missing from the Eurovision Song Contest

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

It’s a little known fact (although people love to snort about how Israel isn’t in Europe) that the Eurovision Song Contest is not a contest for European countries, but for members of the European Broadcasting Union, which itself admits broadcasters from the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Here are the European countries which have broadcasters [...]

Barry Cryer on the Olympic Torch

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Barry Cryer (”The man who first showed Lord Reith where the photocopier was”) made an appearance on Radio 4’s The Now Show on Friday. After being funny for a few minutes, he recited a poem, with ‘Chariots of Fire’ (or a pastiche thereof) playing in the background:
Speed onward bright Olympic torch
Your flames may flicker [...]

University of Death: I read the whole damn thing

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Remember University of Death?
When January came and nobody had given it to me as a Christmas present, I went ahead and bought it from Lulu.com, and I got to work late, reading the last two chapters in bed, then the ‘deleted scenes’ on the loo.
I’m still ill-placed to review it, being friends with Sean. [...]



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