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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 (”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 [...]
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. [...]