This past weekend saw the second annual LUG Radio gathering, this time held at the Students’ Union in Wolverhampton. All in all it was an excellent event and great fun: lots of interesting people, lots of fun people and plenty of interesting talks/demonstrations. Day One (Saturday) At the start of last week, it was beginning… (read more)

It’s happening tomorrow! LUG-Radio Live 2006 takes place in Wolverhampton. Go there!

Many people reading this will be aware that I am part of what is known as the Open Source Community, or the Free Software Community (sometimes called the “Free and Open Source Software” community, or F/OSS). It is often thought that one needs to be a programmer in order to be considered part of this… (read more)

After the huge success of last year’s event, it’s nearly time for LUG-Radio Live 2006. I shall be going and am looking forward to (a) the great selection of speakers and (b) the great selection of other attendees.

I’ve found a copy of this online, so I thought I’d post this now: just after losing on penalties to Portugal on Saturday afternoon in the Quarter Final, the BBC played the programme out with a montage of clips from England’s games, including the defeat itself, with a very well-chosen musical accompaniment: see it here… (read more)

So, through no fault of our own, we find ourselves in the World Cup Quarter Final, playing Portugal tomorrow afternoon. The prize is a Semi-Final match against the winner of Brazil v. France. It’s a bit of a mystery how England have managed to get even this far, because despite having watched all their games,… (read more)

After mentioning quite a lot about the Pet Shop Boys recently, I was rather disappointed to find out that their new web site (which I won’t link to, for reasons which will become clear) has been “redesigned” by some non-standards-aware design company and requires Flash 8 to work. Not “requires Flash 8 for some parts… (read more)

I wrote the first version of colordiff ages ago, but only recently have I started to take over the maintainence of the Debian packages for it. As you can see at the developer page the packages I made earlier in the month have now migrated automatically into Testing, which means they’ll be part of the… (read more)

The British Phonographic Industry announced that making copies of music for personal use “is OK”: “We believe that we now need to make a clear and public distinction between copying for your own use and copying for dissemination to third parties and make it unequivocally clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs… (read more)

I was going to write a full album review, track by track, but I’ve now decided that I can’t be arsed and will do a quickie review instead. Suffice to say that the album is excellent. Highlights are: Minimal: the next single (July/August probably). Very bouncy and catchy, although the chorus is a little uninspired… (read more)