Category Archives: music

OSX on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 – again

Posted on January 22, 2010 by blogmywiki

(behold my – working! – boot-up options, using the old-skool classic GRUB bootloader) I’ve given up trying to get the audio to work on OS X on my IdeaPad’s msiWindOSX install. Could not get Audieee to work. A 10.5.5 update … Continue reading →

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Every Little Earthquake

Posted on January 22, 2010 by blogmywiki

It’s ‘Own Clothes Day’ at my children’s schools today, to raise money for Haiti. At breakfast I explained to my daughter, 4, what the money was for. She said ‘we know a song about an earthquake.’ I’d seen a Met … Continue reading →

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Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music

Posted on December 10, 2009 by blogmywiki

This made me laugh out loud. So lovely to have mornings back again on 6Music… sigh. And I had that Holly Johnson in my studio a few weeks ago. I was sitting there playing out most of ‘Two Tribes’ on … Continue reading →

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Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?

Posted on November 6, 2009 by blogmywiki

Sesame Street is 40 years old, and I did wonder this morning why my children can’t see it. Could this PBS show that aims to reach out to so many people, not be on free-to-air TV in the UK? But … Continue reading →

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If you like music and you like graphic design…

Posted on June 15, 2009 by blogmywiki

…you’ll love these.

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