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.

MiniDisc and 8 Tracks? Pah!

Someone issued an album on Elcassette last year. Elcassette was Sony’s attempt to produce a high-end cassette format by doubling the tape speed of the standard cassette, and hence […]

Unfortunately all of those Twitter posts have since been removed, I presume due to legal reasons.

I suspect the Captain heard this prior to recording the album – a strange mix of time signatures and the bass clarinet. The Captain himself denied it, but Zappa was certainly a fan, having a track named The Eric […]

My dad had that album on two LPs, which he then taped to play in the car. If I’ve got it right, the first three sides were a compilation of licensed tracks (omitting most of the big names, of course!) whilst the […]

Apple have today issued a support document, outlining the forthcoming changes for Mac users:

After today’s keynote talk, it seems that the iTunes replacement will be appearing with the new version of Mac OS X which is set to appear in September. Registered developers will be able to install an early beta […]

Oh, forgot about it. I did start to knock off some notes, but after one full page hadn’t even got to In A Silent Way. May get back to it later this week.

This is going to be difficult, as there’s several albums I played many times in the past which I haven’t listened to at all in years. Can’t even remember the name of one of them!

Forever Changes – Love
In A […]

Albert King
Dave Davies
Wellington Womble

As I understand it, Apple will be releasing the new version of Mac OS X in September (as they’ve done for several years) and this version drops support for 32-bit applications and several other APIs. iTunes isn’t […]

I used Media Go several years ago, when copying files to a PSP. It was, let’s say, an interesting experience.

John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”. The only words are the album title repeated several times.

Bo Diddley’s debut album Bo Diddley opens with the song Bo Diddley whose opening words are Bo Diddley.

BZZZT! Hesitation!