Month: August 2009
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The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Proms
On Tuesday I made my first ever trek to the BBC Proms to listen to silly ukelele music and nearly 1,000 people play Ode to Joy, as you do. Yes I was at Proms 45 to hear the The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain – an 8 piece band, they’ve been going for24 years doing…
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doing the rounds / technology and infostress
This funny text is doing the rounds atm: “This morning I woke to my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the local water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to…
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Adam and his Nutty Room
Been enjoying Adam and Joe’s Song Wars Classics and here’s a rather distrubing yet fun video for one of the songs 😉
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…
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Switching hosts
Already switched digitaldebris.org.uk, greenandsmart.org and a few other of my domains to Hostgator (this is because my current host of 3 years Dreamhost is sadly been terrible for the last 6 months to a year, hence the 500 errors and downtime) mutantpop.net and mutantpop.co.uk is next – should be smooth like the others – but…