The end of bloatware. The return of programming’s golden age?
"You lot aren't programmers, you're just coders".
And how would sir like his pond cooked?
Getting a table at elBulli, the most impossible-to-get-into restaurant in the world just got even more tricky. I've never been to elBulli but Newshour's very own gastro-adventurer Fuchsia Dunlop was there just last October . . . she managed to snarfle out this menu which makes for fascinating reading. It's a mischevious list by the way, I'm told that spherical olives are actually olive shaped morsels which are made from olive products that "explode in the mouth".
About
Welcome to my site. I hope you won't be bored. Try the FAQ for more info. If you're looking for something to spice up your CD collection and you're bored of Keane and Coldplay then try my Kraut Pop guide. Updated occasionally when funds permit and remarkably quickly when German producers send me free CDs. This is the third incarnation of coletti.co.uk and came into being on 3rd February 2007 using the popular Wordpress Open Source application. It's the natural progression from my first attempt in '02 (created using the much underrated development tool notepad.exe) and my second in '04 (created using the ...
Dub Colossus for the BBC
Dub Colossus are kind of like an Ethiopian supergroup. Tasty sounds and a nice bunch of folk . . .
Drive Thru Review: Real life surfing
If you like surfing then you probably like surfing DVDs. At which point you hit the same problem all surfers over 9-years-old face: most surf films are either cheesy, sentimental homages with waves bigger than houses that try to get into the 'soul' of the sport (like the awful Laird) or just lame excuses to play droning Type O-Positive B-sides with the odd 'ironic' Bee Gees track while some drooling Goldie-ite talks about 'charging'. Update 25/4/08: My new Drive Thru soundtrack listing page is here.
Kraut Pop
If you're looking for something to spice up your CD/MP3 collection and you're a wee bit bored now with Keane, Coldplay and Embrace then I recommend you take a look across the channel to Germany. Since the early 90's there's been a stream of quality rock n' roll and pop coming out of the likes of Düsseldorf and Berlin and not all of it in native German. My Kraut Pop Guide consists of a growing list of album (and the occasional live) reviews. Right here. I also have the occasional podcast with some brief tasters. They are listed below. Alternatively you can ...
Articles & Interviews
Pelagic Zone: Shameless Plug
Listen up Kraut popsters . . . the big J, friend of Krautpod, has a new band. They’re called Pelagic Zone and you can hear them here : http://www.myspace.com/pelagiczone...
Hedge fund to Buy Novell?
I think for once, I am very, very lucky. Like many former Novell employees I’ve held Novell stock for over five years and it’s languished at...
How Does Cannabis Affect Your Brain and er . . . Whassat other thing?
If you were in Melbourne wanted to get in touch with people for a cannabis trial what magazine would you advertise in? It’s an interesting dilemma...
Has Microsoft dropped the ball?
Dick Brass is a former exec at Microsoft. He is careful to mention how well Microsoft is doing financially but in the month that Apple launched the iPad...
Do you want to make it in Hollywood?
A fascinating post by Adam Davis on life as a less-worth-than-amoeba beginner in Tinseltown. Heartbreakingly funny and unbelievably honest. Here he is...
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Rediscovered track of the month: Mar ‘10
A big ‘un back around 1990.
Noah Birksted-Breen
Noah Birksted-Breen is on a mission to bring the best of Russian theatre to the UK.