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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Gloating (string fetish)

Sunday, May 31, 2009

I’ve updated the page showing our rather excessive collection of musical instruments. Newly included are photos of the oud and guitar-lute, as well as long-overdue thanks. Also new to the site, a page just on the guitar-lute, which is a lovely but quite bizarre addition to our collection.

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Ridiculously cheap good books (another Small Beer sale)

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Small Beer press have an insane Buck a Book sale on. They have to clear out old stock to avoid having to pay for longterm storage — that must really suck given the state of the economy… So go help them out and score some great books really cheap! (I particularly recommend Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa [...]

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A weekend in Stockholm

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Olga had a conference in Lithuania, and found cheap tickets with a layover in Stockholm. She’s got family there, so she arranged for a weekend visit and managed to convince me to come along. Here are a few photos from the trip. If you don’t want the commentary, just check out the gallery; if you [...]

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Tips for keeping the brain limber

Saturday, May 16, 2009

This one comes from flatmate Ella, it happened to a friend of hers (not deliberately). Choose a nice complicated mystery novel you haven’t read before. One where you’ll have to keep track of lots and lots of clues and remember who knows what when and so on. Buy it as an audio book, with chapters [...]

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Discoveries: stumpwm and screen-profiles

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Apparently my family don’t understand anything I write on this blog any more. This post isn’t going to help. The good news is, I’ve got a bundle of photos from Stockholm which I hope to put up sometime over the weekend. Travels in Scandinavia, that’s not geeky at all, right? This, on the other hand, [...]

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New Miéville

Thursday, May 7, 2009

China Miéville has a new book coming out. In stores four days before my birthday. Not that I’m hinting at anything, you understand.1 For those who don’t like spoilers, there’s a post on Suvudu with some details, plus video of the author not giving away the central conceit. For those who like spoilers, Publisher’s Weekly [...]

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Amarok: changing my tune

Friday, May 1, 2009

Having embarassed myself by mouthing off about Amarok without checking the state of play properly, I’m belatedly reading through the various developer blogs to see what they’ve achieved and what is still in the pipeline. It’s an education. The new design has three columns: on the left is your collection, on the right the playlist, [...]

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What happened to Amarok?

Friday, May 1, 2009

Amarok used to be the best music player you could find anywhere. When I bought a second-hand macbook I was all excited because I could finally see what all the fuss about this magical iTunes thingy was. A few days of playing and I wanted Amarok again.1 A few days ago I upgraded my work [...]

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