This is one emotional email heralding a sad end to Greg Dyke’s BBC.

Those concerned about my welfare might like to know that I finally left my workplace at half-nine last night. Thankfully the masses of cars had finally deserted the OU and I was free to make my way back to Helen’s family home where I was treated to food and warmth.
Today I’m wearing yesterday’s clothes inside [...]

Well I just spent the last hour trying to leave work. The combination of hating queues, inhaling insane amounts of car fumes because the woman in front wont push her choke in; and the one foot of movement in fifty minutes kinda made my mind up for me.
I guess this panic ridden message from our [...]

This intimate performance marked the start of what will hopefully be a year in which I see much more live music. And what a way to kick of the year. Not only do Aqualung hail from my home town of Southampton (thus automatically grating them exclusive license to a place in my heart) but they [...]

Normally when it comes to wiring and electrical things I don’t have too much much of a problem. But when it comes to my late-1970s house and the peculiar wiring within, a few things get me stumped.
One of these issues being View topic > Common light fitting problems” href=”http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27862″>this.
If anybody can help me [...]

How does my MP3 player know how the link Leonard Cohen’s ‘Joan of Ark’ with The Smiths ‘Big Mouth Strikes Again’? The Nomad Zen would appear to be more intelligent that its sleek aluminium shell would have you believe. Indeed it would appear to have a musical knowledge to rival mine if the latest offerings [...]

The latest firmware for the Nomad Jukebox Zen USB 2.0 MP3 player adds some much needed nifty features. The biggest and most important change being you can now get the jukebox to pick any track from up to 16,000 that may be stored on the machine. This can throw up a few surprise tracks that [...]

It’s been fairly quiet here lately. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I’ve been snowed under with projects at work and just haven’t had any creative energy to update you on my fascinating life and secondly, I’ve been carefully preparing my Portfolio. It’s not quite finished yet but good enough to point people to. [...]

I’ve been getting into the music of Brighton based folk-type band Salter Cane recently. I downloaded four tracks from their site a few months ago and have been enjoying them on a daily basis since. To me they have a Tindersticks/Nick Cave type feel to them but I actually prefer the Salter Cane tracks to [...]

Face/Starbuck aka Dirk Benedict has been heavily promoting himself over the last week. This has brought to my attention this brilliant Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Battlestar Galactica - Special Edition which I’ve added to my wish list along with these Terrahawks DVDs.