The owners of ski resorts in the Atlas mountains were probably annoyed by the “There won’t by any snow in Africa this Christmastime” line too.

Mine’s currently the opening 30 seconds of this:

A few years ago there was a free version of Office that was bundled with some PCs – If I remember correctly it was essentially just Word and Excel with some of the more complex features removed.

One thing to watch out for when purchasing a Windows laptop – Microsoft Office.

Some laptops will come with a bundled 1 year subscription to Office 365, but not all, hence if you need Office (Word, Excel, […]

Some of these harpsichords will really be the Baldwin Electric Harpsichord – as used by The Beatles on ‘Because’, The Doors, The Dreadful Gate and others.

Scientist on a £50 note? Does this mean we’re going to get King Tubby on the £20 or Lee Perry on the £10?

It’s all down to how memory cards are formatted, and how Android sandboxes apps, preventing them from being able to access each other’s data.

SD cards tend to be formatted using some variant of FAT, the […]

I’ve tried Volumio in the past, but abandoned it due to its poor support of tags. My entire library uses sort order tags to ensure that artists are sorted in the correct order, i.e. by surname – Volumio ignored […]

Two here as well, although I’ve only managed to get to the end of one of them.

I once had a daft idea. One local pub used to have a Sunday acoustic evening, and I discussed with mates the possibility of getting together as a four-piece group to play this event. We would be playing Kraftwerk […]

A few years ago I attended a local concert given by a regional youth orchestra, the main work being Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony. For an encore the orchestra played something not listed in the programme, which the […]

You don’t actually need a head of state – some countries (e.g. Switzerland) manage to get by without one.

In the Swiss case the head of state is effectively held by a 7 member cross-party council, which […]

I suspect it’s Media Monkey that’s to blame. RSS is a protocol for downloading data feeds, and one of its major uses is for downloading podcasts. Media Monkey is probably using Android’s built-in RSS service for […]

That’s the real Archie Andrews, isn’t it?

Good old Memphis Slim!

If Boris does meet a sticky end, he won’t be the first of his family to do so. His paternal great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, also met one back in 1922. (Yes, his surname should really be Kemal)

This daft idea from TEAC.

They intended to record the first series too for overseas sales, but an insect managed to get inside the tele-cine equipment during the second episode, and the rest of the recordings were abandoned.

One of the […]

The worst crisp flavour I’ve ever tasted were Seabrook’s Sweetcorn flavour from about 20 years ago. They weren’t in production for very long, and I recall supermarkets selling them for half price just to shift them.

The London Symphony Orchestra has been banging out the hits since 1912.