Eurovision in Europe
An interesting discussion on MetaTalk about how it’s not just us clever, witty Brits who don’t take Eurovision seriously.
Topic
Music
A collection of 19 issues
Clutter for Mac OS X
Only about a year after everyone else, I have discovered Clutter, a Mac OS X program that quietly looks up the cover art for whatever tune you happen to be playing in iTunes. You can drag album covers to the desktop to create a visual link to the album in
The Sans Day Carol
One of my favourite carols, although it’s not well known, is the Sans Day Carol, from the village of Sans Day or St. Day, between Redruth and Truro in Cornwall. An-Daras.com has the song in Cornish (‘Ma Greun War An Kelynn), with literal translation. The traditional English version
Barber of Seville on the telly
Good news for Freeview-owning opera buffs. The new production of Barber of Seville from the Royal Opera House will be shown live on BBC4, at 7.40 on 30 December.
Purcell and doggerel verse
I was listening to Henry Purcell’s Odes and Welcome Songs on the way home. They’re worth a listen if you haven’t – various songs for birthdays, arrivals or general celebrations of the monarchy, plus some for Saint Cecilia’s Day (22 November). As always with Purcell, the English
iTunes for stattos
I never knew till just now that you can copy the contents of your iTunes library view (or any other view) to Excel using copy and paste, on a Mac at least. This enables you to do all sorts of statto-ish calculations. For example, it turns out that since I
Classical music as pesticide
Sussex Police are going to use Beethoven and Vivaldi to scare off teenagers hanging around a bandstand in Worthing. Sad, isn’t it?
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Animated, gruesomely, in Flash at Newgrounds.
Audioscrobbler
I have an Audioscrobbler account, so now people can see what I’m listening to. In real time! Emergently!
It’s possibly even more self-absorbed than blogging.