Strangely Perfect

No fuss. My old friend Jeff recently died. The track now playing was one of the last pieces we did together.  It’s Jeff’s creation  and is one of my favourite Crawling Chaos tracks.  This is a pre-Waqqaz version from a cassette that has travelled round France, been in various glove compartments and cupboard floors. I’ve [...]

Yay.  I’ve spotted another batch of file-sharing websites recently.  Like the cash-cop-out neep-heeds at Pirate Bay (see news item “Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers” on their cash sell-out – ha,ha, so much for freedom of speech; the real motive has now panned out), these sites don’t host files, they just tell people where to go, [...]

A Secret Shared: – Is Not  a Secret One Third of Second-Hand Hard Drives Contain Secrets This is the astonishing findings from research conducted by three Universities, from Wales, the US & Australia (see here). In an absolutely random sample of second-hand discs bought at computer fairs and places like eBay, 34% had secret, classified [...]

Still cracks me up.. Flashback Caruso is still there for me… Try this Faust website for info.  Bury deep.

The news that not only have Facebook users suffered another viral surge (previous virus report on koobface here) but also, that their data might be used forever in howsoever the sweet faced bloke in the photie wants should scare them all a bit, I’d have thought. The fact that he’s said that the data is [...]

Workers and ordinary intelligent users of the Post Office Royal Mail system (“the post”), must be very worried by the latest news about the holistic vertically integrated business that was “the post” being further split up and creamed off. see 50,000 jobs at risk in break-up of Royal Mail or Royal Mail faces call to [...]

Inmate escapes German jail in box Paralleling a personal comment I made last week to Stuart, this week in Germany, a prisoner made a post-haste dash for freedom.  I think he must’ve been listening to The Velvet Underground’s “The Gift” In the monolgued song, voiced by Cale in his Welsh accent, poor little man Waldo Jeffers has [...]

The “news”, Phone taps ‘prove Georgia’s case’ that Georgia’s President Saakashvili has discovered phone tap evidence that “proves” he was trapped or lured into his Invasion of South Ossetia by the Russians would be more credible if it had come out at the beginning of August.  But really, I mean; even I, with no Eastern [...]

Cupboard cleanout. Dust of ages. Mists of time. Tape of hissiness. This is the Crawling Chaos, Magnum Innoninandum cassette cover, the second hard release from Crawling Chaos, producers of innovative music originating from Northumberland.  This follows on from the Green tape. It is really a statement of intent. Q.  How do I feel about it, [...]

In the news again (see Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer), is Delia Derbyshire, creator of the Doctor Who theme.  One particular characteristic of the sixties, apart from the fashions etc, is the “sound” behind all the films and of popular music at the time.  However, getting past the cheesy flower power and merseybeat [...]

View Larger Map I’ve been away from proper web access for a week (see later postings as I get round to them) and this is my first post since my break. Last Sunday, the Somerset HQ branch of the SGI-UK Buddhist organisation had our “day” to celebrate our existence, meet folks and bolster our resolve.  [...]

The self-named “forgotten middle child” Alice, has been a-busy a-brushin’ and a-washin’ the dog, George, this past year so much so that now he won a rosette for 2nd Most Handsome Dog! Apparently the dog didn’t even notice, the shaky video showing that his prime interest was the other dog’s bottoms. The show was notable [...]

Sorry. What I meant to say is: “Why, if ordinary people lie and are punished for it, do public people lie and apparently get away with it, so much so that people think it normal behaviour?” Or, in other words: Why do the media not use the word “LIE” , anymore? Two recent lying events [...]