Posts from 2007

Well, they’re not exactly new, but I’ve only recently got round to mixing and uploading them. That’s all the culture I can muster for a while; enjoy. – Cennydd Bowles – My Lady Of The Sea [AAC, 4.3MB] – Cennydd Bowles – Ursa Major [AAC, 3.1MB] – many thanks to Sélène for backing vocals

I love the covers of these Penguin books. Gill Sans-alicious. Price tag’s not bad either.

End of year lists are, as we all know, both passé and vaguely narcissistic. So, with that in mind, here’s an end of year list, in no particular order. Battles – Mirrored Their earlier EPs were interesting, precise and showed a faint glimmer of humour, but I don’t think anyone expected the album to be [...]

Been busy working on exciting things (I’ll post them when they’re done), drinking Christmastide pints, and watching Pitchfork’s Top 50 music videos of 2007. It’s not that I’m opting out of Christmas. I’m just doing it my own way. A little selfish, yes, but really all I want to do this year is relax, walk [...]

I realise I’m a little late to the party with Portal, but I just don’t play games as much as I used to. My free time has collapsed of late and, as a veteran from the ZX Spectrum days, I’m sick of the industry treading the same paths over and over again. So nowadays I [...]

Wow, and while I’m on the subject too… Did we really need any more convincing that a national ID database is a bad idea? Having worked in government and seen some of the extraordinary care some departments take over Data Protection, today’s breach is astonishing. I think this is the final straw that gets me [...]

A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.