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Rather shockingly, Real Player 10 for Linux is surprisingly painless. Stuff “just works”. No bloat, no adverts all over the place, and buffering seems faster. I am stunned.
I’ve been using Gentoo Linux on and off for the last month or so, and I’ve been quite impressed. I’m not bothered about the compilation times, my PC [...]

Stolen graciously from Anil Dash, it’s a joke about a panda.
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up to go, the manager shouts, “Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter, [...]

I’ve promised myself that I will keep a blog of my time in Malaysia, hopefully as live as is possible. I suspect that it will involve emailing blog posts to friends to submit on my site. However, I’m sure there will be a lot to think and talk about before I’m anywhere near to leaving [...]

Big Step #2 in my working life happened yesterday. Big Step #1 happened at a similar time last year, and was getting a job at BBC Technology for a year’s placement. I’ve not really mentioned it on here, but I’m having a great time, doing interesting work with people I like. It’s a good environment [...]

Taking my top five most played tracks from iTunes is actually a fairly representative slice of the music I enjoy (as you might imagine). Usually I find these things horribly skewed towards “that time I left iTunes playing Radiohead on loop for 3 days while I was in Skegness”.

Radiohead - The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Elliot [...]

Last night I had the pleasure of going to The Camden Crawl. 40 bands, across 10 venues, in one evening. It was absolutely great. I took it pretty easy and saw four bands. The whole setup seemed pretty well organised. You got a swapped your ticket for a wristband, which gave you free entry to [...]