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New Music to Love

I’ve been using the iTunes Music Store for about two years (I think). For all its faults, I love the availability of so much music of all sorts and the ability to buy just one track if that is what you want.

Recently I have started thinking about extending my musical experiences into areas they haven’t [...]

Straight Edge

I have been friended once on last.fm. I had no idea why, and I accepted the request at first because I thought it was my brother, Jason (turned out to be a completely different Jason).

I was playing with my last.fm profile last night and I thought I would have a look at Jason’s. In his [...]

In a music mood

Apologies to Jeff Rients for the title. More apologies for all the links in the following text…

In a recent post Jeff commented on the relationship between (heavy metal) music and gaming.

In many ways heavy metal and D&D go together like peas and mashed potatoes. Some people keep them separate on their plate but [...]

Day 1

Number 1 son Liam, my brother Jason and I have decided to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this year.

Follow the link if you don’t know about this program and want to find out what I am talking about. The summary is this: write a 50,000 word (approx 175 page) novel in the month [...]

Save our language!!

Every week, without fail, I take perverse pleasure in reading the column of Phillip Adams in the Weekend Australian magazine.

I say perverse, because as a rabid athiest, Adams has very little in common with me, a conservative Bible-believing Christian (read, in Adams-speak: fundie, Taliban-wannabe God botherer).

I often find myself banging my head against the wall [...]