I've been using iTunes since getting my first iPod in late 2004, a first-gen gold-coloured 4GiB iPod mini that IBM sent me as a freebie for taking part in a Linux on PowerPC outreach programme. It required iTunes for Windows XP to be installed on my Dell Latitude to synchronise music from my laptop to […]
It's Sonic Youth Week on iTunes to celebrate the release of their new album, The Eternal . It's a classic Sonic album, g'wan, give it a go, you'll love it as much as I do!
When I was a kid, one of the stand-out moments of the week was getting to watch an awesome American action-adventure serial on TV. Airwolf, Street Hawk, Manimal, Automan, The A-Team, Quantum Leap, Star Trek, The Fall Guy, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Knight Rider, even Blue Thunder. What drove me to keep watching […]
The BBC, along with BSkyB, have decided not to air an advertisement for DEC 's Gaza appeal, asking for donations to go towards essential aid from thirteen charities for those affected by the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Not only have they linked to the bloody DEC website in a news story about how they won't […]
Tony Hart has died , as has Patrick McGoohan and Richardo Montalban . I'm always stunned at how poignant it can be hearing a celebrity you remember most from when you were a kid has died, even though you've likely had only a very peripheral attachment to them, perhaps seeing them on TV or in […]
Is it just me, or has this furore over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross prank calling Andrew Sachs' answerphone on a radio show been blown out of all proportion? Both men involved have apologised to Sachs, and that should be the end of it. Instead, they are now suspended from their BBC broadcasts, and Sachs' […]
I was flicking through the iTunes Store this morning and noticed something odd ... some words in reviews and track titles had asterisks in them as though they were swear words (e.g. 'b*ll*cks'). But they didn't appear to be swear words. iTunes uses allmusic for the bulk of their album and single reviews, so luckily […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EGpuu45Mo] Ahhh, Christmas Tapes ...
So two things i've been looking forward to for a long time are going to see The Dark Knight and finally getting to see a movie at the IMAX cinema out at the Glasgow Science Centre . It's a crying shame that the actual experience of going to watch the movie didn't match up to […]