Monthly Archives: March 2009

Six Decades of the 7″ Record

31 March 2009 – 12:00 AM

The 7″ record is 60 years old today!
Several have been manufactured since then. I have quite a few.
It is a wonderful format, bigger than a CD and rounder and blacker than a digital audio file.
Actually the very first one was not black, but green.
Thanks to Disgraceland for bringing this anniversary to my attention.

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Apparently I have the right “not to remain silent”… Well, cheers. Here’s what I think.

30 March 2009 – 1:17 AM

The police have some new posters on display around the UK. I don’t like the posters. It was a definite case of dislike at first sight.
It turns out the posters are there to advertise the new Policing Pledge:
The Policing Pledge is a set of promises to local residents that not only gives more information about [...]

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Delia Derbyshire on Ada Lovelace Day

24 March 2009 – 12:00 AM

It’s Ada Lovelace Day today and the brief was very open – just write a blog post about a woman in technology who you revere.
So here’s mine. The above video shows Delia Derbyshire demonstrating reel-to-reel music recording and production.
Derbyshire was known for her creative sound engineering work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (which was itself [...]

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All my trivial status updates in one big list

19 March 2009 – 2:29 AM

There is a lot of trivial information on the web. You know the sort – status updates about the minutiae which make up life.
It’s all fine I guess. I could pick an example, but then I would probably try to find something noteworthy about the event, its ramifications for society, etc. which would make the [...]

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PALL mawr (Or maybe METHU mawr)

12 March 2009 – 4:48 PM

However you translate “epic FAIL” into Welsh, this recent Guardian error tickled me:
A letter to the editor, which touched lightly on English ignorance of Welsh matters, was attributed in an early edition to Hwyl Fawry. It should have been attributed to Gill Caldwell. She signed off her letter with hwyl fawr, which translates roughly as [...]

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Recursive Proverb

11 March 2009 – 11:23 PM

Here’s a recursive proverb.

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Truckers Of Husk – Person For The Person

7 March 2009 – 10:50 AM

Here’s a music video for scene stealers Truckers Of Husk. I’m sure you will agree it is mighty fine – a carnival of craziness, much like their genre-mashing music.
For this we can thank Casey Raymond and Ewan Jones Morris, the co-directors. They were the ones who made the recent Future Of The Left video (filmed [...]

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

1 March 2009 – 1:00 AM

Happy Saint David’s Day!
Here’s an electric take on the Welsh national anthem.
Tich Gwilym – Hen Wlad Fyn Nhadau (YouTube) [1:36]
Tich Gwilym – Hen Wlad Fyn Nhadau (Spotify) [1:59]
Best version ever.

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