Aug
1
Rediscovered track of the month: Aug ’11
August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Epic by Faith No More . . .
Jul
5
Rediscovered track of the month: Jul ’11
July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Jun
15
100 Years of IBM
June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This month sees IBM celebrate its 100th anniversary. Here’s a little bit of IBMÂ UK history/trip down memory lane. Back in 1989 I was at North Harbour just outside Portsmouth and the boss wanted a pic taken. Here’s the result. The dashing executive on the left is me in a very new Pierre Cardin suit […]
Jun
10
Shonen Knife, Free Time
June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Long time fans will be relieved to know lead singer Naoko’s English accent remains unchanged: just the right side of comprehensible but occasionally straying into that weird place where the hard Japanese consonants fade into vowels already mushier than a heartbroken Michael Bolton whereupon it all becomes a glorious balm for the ears. My copy […]
Jun
1
Rediscovered track of the month: Jun ’11
June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Elvis Costello: Alison
May
29
Reporting Joplin’s Tornado
May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Brian Stelter of the NY Times writes about how he tweeted/reported/uploaded the story of Joplin’s tornado. What the immeasurably modest Mr stelter doesn’t record is that at 0100 Joplin time on the morning of Tuesday 24th (0700 BST) I was sitting in Bush House in London and saw his tweets live and e-Mailed him asking […]
May
7
Rediscovered track of the month: May ’11
May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
May
5
Sickboy on the Alternative Vote vote
May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Can’t say I’m getting too worked up about this AV thing one way or another but based on what I’ve been hearing on air recently the people campaigning for a YES to introducing the new AV system cannot help but remind me of Sickboy in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting . . . when he’s losing an […]