I’ve commented in the past about Ubuntu’s wallpapers – in particular that I thought the Hardy Heron wallpaper was a high point. Now I do like it as an image in its own right, but I finally realised the other …
Read morePutting The Album on life support
I hadn’t planned to write any more about the decline in album sales, but just when I thought I’d put the subject to bed, I stumbled across this article. The short version of this not-very-long-anyway article is that Apple has …
Read moreMuseum? “Exhibit” or “Gallery” would be more honest
A few years ago I visited the Design Museum, just down from Tower Bridge in London. It was, as you might expect, a museum dedicated to design. It dealt largely with product design, though there was some content about architectural …
Read moreNew Theme
Regular readers of this blog (are there any?) will have noticed that I’ve finally ditched the “green variant on the default WordPress theme” in favour of a “green variant on the default Drupal theme”. I’ve always thought the default Drupal …
Read moreCollections: Playlists on steroids
A couple of posts ago I suggested that the agglomeration of audio tracks known as “The Album” is an anachronism in a world where individual tracks can be downloaded at the click of a button. Not wanting to be all …
Read moreIf not albums, then what?
My previous post posited that ‘If the record industry wants “The Album” to survive … they’re going to have to start thinking a bit more creatively’. Yeah, it’s easy to say that, but how about putting forward some actual ideas? …
Read moreFile Sharing Down in the UK
Well, sharing music files at least, according to this article. Funny, isn’t it, how illegal file sharing is going down just around the time that new services (such as Spotify) and new music stores (such as Amazon’s) are finally starting …
Read moreToday’s Life Lesson
If you find a Wagon Wheel at the back of your office drawer, with a Best Before date of 2003, despite it appearing to be perfectly fresh, under no circumstances should you actually try biting into it. Not only was …
Read moreMy prediction for Chrome OS
Since Google announced Chrome OS there have been lots of questions asked (and very few questions answered) about what hardware it will run on. They’ve listed the names of some hardware partners, but that’s about it. Will it be a …
Read moreGoogle Netbook OS
The tubes are buzzing with the news that Google plan to launch their own operating system – which actually seems to be a thin veneer over a Linux kernel, solely for the purpose of running their Chrome web browser. The …
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