One Springsteen is one too many as it is – we certainly don’t need any more!

EMI’s Hayes plant had well over a hundred record presses at that time, some automatic for handling big pressing runs, others manual for handling smaller jobs. Beatles albums, at least at the time of their initial […]

There’s really no such thing as a ‘third pressing’ – it’s just Record Collector’s price guide using some means to differentiate between variations of the record label design and/or text. Albums like this would […]

I’ve listened to the album hundreds of times over the years. I’ve listened to the alternate versions on the last remaster twice.

The Band of Susans were so called due their initial line-up featuring three members called Susan.

I visited one of my regular drinking haunts a few months ago, and came across an empty crisp packet on the bar from some previously unknown but very expensive ‘hipster’ brand. The blurb on the packaging was very […]

These cars will also carry registration numbers containing just symmetrical letters and numbers – ‘V’, ‘M’, ‘0’, ‘8’ and so on. Makes reversing the picture for left/right hand drive a lot easier.

This week began with Ben Stokes walloping Pat Cummins all over the place with a cricket bat.

The week ends with millions wanting to wallop Dominic Cummings with something much heavier.

Wormwood Scrubs, hopefully!

Drat, I thought you wanted to purchase something for vaporising people. I can think of several politicians deserving such a treatment at the moment!

That’s the Domestic Abuse Bill delayed, or even scrapped, then. It was due to go through Parliament early next month.

Pink Floyd covered the theme to Steptoe & Son, but renamed it to Interstellar Overdrive.

I came here to mention that.

Once OneDrive is configured, there’s the Back Up option under settings. This allows you to automatically backup the Desktop, Documents and Photos folders to OneDrive whenever new […]

The Staple Singers were penchant to a bit of thievery themselves.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Well, after last week’s laptop re-installation, I’m doing it yet again. On Tuesday I downloaded some video manipulation software, based on a website recommendation, but it installed some other unwanted software at […]

I’m spending this afternoon re-loading Windows 10 on my laptop. I upgraded to a Windows Insiders preview version last week, but I’ve got some hardware incompatibility issues with the new drivers, causing green screen panics.

Under Windows 10, pressing the Windows Key and X together will give you a menu of various administrative tools and shortcuts, with Device Manager amongst them.

This is due to the brominated fire retardant in the plastic breaking down over time, and bromine leaching out.

The same issue affects older computer and electronics equipment, causing white or beige casing to […]

Nick Drake did make an appearance on the Granada TV arts show ‘Octopus’, which was originally only shown in the Granada region. However it seems that this performance, or at least some of it, turned up later on […]

Inside-out playing was occasionally done with some classical releases, due to certain works having more dynamic range at the end than the start. There’s a Techmoan video (naturally) of one such LP featuring Ravel’s Bolero.