My rant yesterday about the future is woefully conservative.
Look at this article.
That’s now.
Okay, so Wi-Fi is still pretty patchy and there are no big national networks. Yet. But for how long…?
Surely the writing is on the wall for music players that feaure any kind of onboard storage, whether flash memory or hard drive?
The future’s [...]
Archive for August, 2005
In 1995, I bought a Motorola V.34 modem, plugged it into my Escom P60 (Pentium 60MHz, 16meg RAM, 540*Mega*byte hard disk) and went online.
A lot has changed in ten years.
Back then, my first point of contact with the net was Compuserve and their user groups. I quickly moved on from there to the wild, [...]
Acts from Athlete to the Sugababes and Basement Jaxx are asking for help from stylists. And Keane, one of the major breakout groups of 2004, had hired a consultant to advise them on their look, logo and promotional material before they had even made a record.
“Our job is to visualise the larger picture behind a [...]
Oh dear…
Just trying to edit the group permissions for ‘Old People, New Music‘ to make it more democratic and the above appeared.
I didn’t touch anyfink! I swear!
Here are some stats for Last.fm:
Stats recorded @ 2005-08-24 06:30:10
3,361 new registrations in last 24 hours
160,671 users listened in last 30 days
128,098 users listened in last 7 days
83,726 users listened in last 24 hours
4,253,230 submissions processed in last 24 hours (49.23 per second)
0 submissions received in last 24 hours (0 per second)
cluster(1) received: 0 queued: 347
cluster(2) received: 0 queued: 1,203
Seems to [...]
Nothing fancy, just what I’m listening to in my car at the mo. Mostly brand, spanking new but a couple of older jobbies too.
Car August 05
Total playing time: 01:13:06
01. Riddle of Steel - Baby Bird
02. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
03. The Books - Be Good To Them Always
04. Apparat - Komponent (Telefon [...]
Today, I got these CDs in the post:
Jennifer Gentle I’ve already rambled on about here.
Brakes album ‘Give Blood‘ is a rocky guitarry indie gem. If you love sarky, mardy, sneery, punky songs that have a pop at anything within spitting distance, you’ll love this. Apparently, it was all recorded live, the talented bastards!
Here’s what their [...]
If you’ve never met or seen me in the flesh, you may not be aware that I am something of a gourmand, which is the polite way to say fat bastard who hangs round outside cake shops.
I love good food.
So I was delighted to stumble across these today in Bennetts:
They are:
Gently roasted organic pumpkin [...]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — August 21, 2005 — Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his [...]
Touane - Awake (Persona Records PRS-015CD)
Seems to be my night for Italian music. I’m now listening to the new album by Touane. It’s called ‘Awake’ and came out on Persona Records this May.
It’s damn near perfect for this time of night. It’s not as glitchy as, say Nautilis or OOO but it’s still got [...]