I have just found out that there is a band called Skudder! They are a four-piece from Norwich, playing 80’s hardcore and street punk. Interesting that they are from Norwich though. Years ago when I was wondering if my name meant anything a friend said it might be connected to the white leather trade in […]
Entries Tagged as 'iRiver'
Full to the brim
July 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on Full to the brim · Music, Technology
Oh dear. My iRiver is finally full – there is only 3Mb of space left on the disk. If I want to get some more of my vinyl on there, or buy anything new, I will have to start deleting stuff, because my budget doesn’t stretch to getting a 40Gb model just yet. I already […]
Tags: iRiver·Kraftwerk·Pink Floyd·Punk
New sounds
June 10th, 2005 · Comments Off on New sounds · Music
I got a parcel from Amazon today with a load of goodies to keep me occupied. First of all there is a CD by Amadou and Mariam called Dimanche a Bamako. They are a couple of Malian singers, who have collaborated with Manu Chao for their new album. I first heard about it on Councillor […]
Tags: DVD·iRiver·Kraftwerk·Shopping·World music
Back-to-work blues
May 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on Back-to-work blues · Work
What with the bank holiday monday and taking a couple of days off for the election, I have only gone into work for two days in the last nine. And now I am facing a whole 5 days in a row. Five days of dragging myself up to London on the train and back again, […]
Do I need my hi-fi?
February 1st, 2005 · Comments Off on Do I need my hi-fi? · Technology
I never thought I would be asking myself this question. For as long as I can remember I have always liked listening to music and have always wanted decent hardware to play it on. Finally, about four years ago, I got a respectable set of separates from a mate who was moving abroad. Maybe it […]
New Year
January 8th, 2005 · Comments Off on New Year · Technology, Work
OK, so its the 8th already and therefore hardly a new year still, but its the first time I could be bothered to blog anything since Christmas. Over the entire holidays I hardly went anywhere and hardly did anything, but still the time went by far too quickly and all too soon I was back […]
Tags: Blogging·Books·BYCC·DVD·Films·Gadgets·iRiver·Pink Floyd·Railways
Storage
December 4th, 2004 · Comments Off on Storage · Life
I’ve been thinking a bit about storage, maybe because I don’t have enough of it here. Modern houses just don’t seem to have the sorts of nooks and crannies for piling up junk that older places do – and I have a lot of junk! The main problem is with books, records, videos and stuff […]
Tags: iRiver
Ripping
November 14th, 2004 · Comments Off on Ripping · Music, Technology
I spent the late afternoon and evening ripping more CDs to my hard drive to copy onto my iRiver, which now has just over 7900 songs on it. Well, tracks anyway: there are a couple of classical albums which contain a lot of short tracks. As I have just about all my own CDs ripped […]
New sounds
October 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on New sounds · Music
To celebrate the end of the week, I popped into the shops at Crawley on the way home and picked up some new CDs. I don’t know why it is, but if I buy a batch of CDs I never get ones that are similar. You would have thought that I might be in, for […]
Tags: iRiver·Kraftwerk·Shopping·World music
World Music
September 25th, 2004 · Comments Off on World Music · Music
Tonight I have had my iRiver plugged into the hi-fi. I felt like running the batteries down completely so I can recharge them from empty, and it saves me having to decide what music to listen to: the machine holds almost my entire CD collection and I just set it to random play. Meanwhile I […]
Tags: iRiver·World music
