Apple has released new stuff, so because Slashdot and the like dub me an Apple fanboi it’s my civic responsibility to discuss them… from my iTelephone. We still don’t have home internet, you see :(.
Thursday 02nd September 2010
Friday 30th July 2010
I haven’t featured a Whole Wheat Radio artist for a few weeks, so here’s my favourite for today! From their WWR artist page:
Thursday 29th July 2010
#96: When I was a kid, I called him Carlos Sultana.
#97: My parents never used to correct me when I called him Carlos Sultana. Apparently they found it amusing.
Awesome photo courtesy of Paul Reed Smith Guitars. And for once, a Fun Fact here is true. Well, not to suggest I was full of crap when I wrote the others. For one, I type them. Gracias.
Sunday 11th July 2010
Absolutely the best description outside WholeWheatRadio.org I’ve read of the RIAA, in a comment on a CNET story of all places:
Sunday 27th June 2010
In [the] Czech Republic you actually have to pay OSA (they collect money for music usage) if you want to publish your own work (they actually claim that they will return you 70% of that if you sign with them).
Does anyone know if this is true? If it is, I wonder how many Czech internet users are breaking the law with their podcasts? Another case of technology always being two [hundred] steps ahead of the law.
My dad, sis and I went to Plzeň in the Czech Republic in January. Some really beautiful old buildings and great food. Good thing I didn’t attempt to publish any of the audio I recorded while I was there!
Friday 28th May 2010
I like most of the music that plays on Whole Wheat Radio, but sometimes a song comes on that grabs my attention so much it deserves an opening sentence far better than this one! Today’s such song was by the Kubatana Marimba Ensemble, that just happened to be the Artist of the Day.
Thursday 20th May 2010
Friday 14th May 2010
You know that now notorious error message you sometimes see on YouTube videos claiming the music in a video was copyrighted and had been disabled?
Tuesday 04th May 2010
One of the features of TweetDeck is the Recommends column which displays users the TweetDeck team deem worthy of following. Most of time its a fairly random mix of folks, but sometimes you get some unlikely pairings!
Monday 12th April 2010
Was thinking about the situation with Palm I discussed this morning when a Robbie Williams song came on the radio, and I thought it was apt.
"I don’t miss you, just who you used to be…"
