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Entries from July 26th, 2008

Feed the World?

July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feed the World? · Jane, Politics

Just to show that Skuds isn’t the only one who can use song titles for his posts…. We have been a touch busy recently and, among other things, we spent a very rainy Saturday last week helping the Huddersfield Friends of the Earth Group in their protest against EU Biofuels targets. (I’m holding the % […]

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Sweet Soul Music

July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sweet Soul Music · Music

By happy chance I turned the TV on just after 9pm today and a programme on Stax records had just started on BBC Four. It was nearly two hours long and absolutely fascinating.  Even better, it was immediately followed by a concert film from the Stax Volt tour of Norway in 1968.

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School’s Out

July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on School’s Out · Work

School holidays started this week.  There is something depressing about continuing to go into work every day when the Mrs. keeps reminding you how she is off for the next five-and-a-half weeks.  It would help if she didn’t keep rubbing it in so much.  It was already bad enough being there while everyone else in […]

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Harmonic Generator

July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music, Technology

Over at Wongablog, Andrew has been trying to get to grips with the Rock Band game, with mixed results.  He may find it encouraging to see what happened when Rush tried the game and failed on their own song… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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