I'm on Last FM!! Cool or what? :)

Hey folks I'm now on Last FM, I'm really chuffed. I'm rubbing shoulders with all my heroes... haha ok ok maybe not but it's a start isn't it. Check out my artist page here - http://www.last.fm/music/Sonic+Real+Estate

If you're a musician or record label you can …

Slight blog hickup, normal service has been resumed ;)

I merged this music blog with my computer/tech blog by accident earlier today. I have removed the tech blog now though so this should just be about music again sorry :) This blog was flooded with tech stories earlier today which may have confused some people but normal …

Windows Source Code Leaked

A quick look a some of the leaked Windows source code confirms all our suspicions about how seriously Microsoft take software quality. This article is very interesting. I'm sure a lot of the comments in this code were never meant to see the light of day. There's no …

You call that unlimited??!!!

I received an email this morning about a petition to stop broadband companies calling their products unlimited when they're not. It's a subject close to my heart after my experiences with Tiscali lately.

I bought an "unlimited" broadband package from them last September …

Rolling On Rails

I've been a web developer for a few years now, some of the time professionally, sometimes as slave labour and others just for fun. I always like to try my hand at new technologies. I've tried all kinds down the years: ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, Perl CGI scripting... …

My Linux Story - Part 2 - The Revenge

Here is the 2nd installment of my Linux story. When I left off last time I was up to about the end of 2004. So I'll continue from there...

At the end of 2004 I was still experimenting with Linux but mainly using Windows XP as my main everyday desktop. Unfortunately at …

A memo from Bill Gates

I just read this document, it's supposed to be a leaked memo from Bill Gates submitted in the Iowa Antitrust case recently. It seems to be real, he is is talking about making stopping ACPI working with Linux and making it "Windows specific". This could be some of the …

It's All About People Not Computers

I just started using Jaiku after hearing about it on net@nite and it's amazing. It's even more addictive than I imagined it could be. I never used Twitter, it just kind of passed me by but for some reason I felt like trying Jaiku out and now I am addicted. It's only …

I found the F-Spot ;-)

I found another great application on my Ubuntu desktop today I hadn't used before. It's a photo editor/manager called F-Spot, kind of like an open-source Picasa if you will. I thought I'd share my experiences.

It all came about because I signed up for a Flickr account, a …

Going Loco For OpenMoko

The OpenMoko project is aiming to give us a fully open-source, Linux platform for phones and mobile devices. "Free your phone" it says on their main page, that sounds good to me. Apparently it will implement a full Linux Kernel on your phone (provided the hardware is …

HowTo: Export playlists from Rhythmbox

I was browsing the Ubuntu Forums today and someone asked "How can I export my playlists from RhythmBox?", how easy must that be I thought. I was wrong. I had a look under the "music" menu thinking there would be an export option and there wasn't.

Here's the options I got …

Wanna buy some spam??

I just noticed this today and thought it was funny. Not particularly technical or open source related I'm afraid. The "adsense" thing in Gmail is working over time, it gives you banner ads related to whatever your email is about but it even does it on the spam folder. …

Installing Vista in 2 minutes

I thought installing Vista would take hours but this guy manages to do it pretty quickly ;)



Just follow these instructions for any copy of Windows Vista you happen to get and you'll be fine. Then get your Ubuntu CD out and do the job properly :D

The Fawn Is Almost Upon Us (Ubuntu 7.04)

Well there's not long to wait now. The new edition of Ubuntu 7.04 "The Feisty Fawn" is due for release tomorrow (Thursday 19th April) and personally I can't wait. As you probably know by now if you've been here before, Ubuntu is my main OS and the new release promises …

Shed Music is reborn ;)

I've added some vintage Shed Music to my playlist, this is stuff I did for a compilation album a few years back. I tried to start an Internet record company in 2000 and it didn't really work at the time, the technology just wasn't ready, nobody had broadband. Come to …

Registered new domain

I just registered www.sonicrealestate.net and pointed it at this Virb account. I'm a bit pissed off I couldn't get the .com address but thats the way it goes I suppose. I think it will make it easier for people to find me and who knows it might even turn up at a decent …