It’s always a good thing when an ‘event’ album comes along and manages to utterly surpase your expectations.  It’s already happened once this year for me, with Portishead’s excellent ‘Third,’ but I never expected that Metallica’s ‘Death Magnetic’ would fulfil any such requirement, so out of shape I had presumed they were.
Metallica are an incredibly [...]

I have never voted Labour in my life, not at any level, but I must admit that on many levels they’ve not done too bad a job at running the country.  Yes there’s the whole stupid war, and yes they cozied up to business interests too much.  Yes they are pro PFI.  But on the [...]

It is, as I am sure you will be aware, Big Bang day today, as Cern’s super smashing Large Hadron Collider experiment gets underway.  And no, the world hasn’t ended, as you can plainly see as you look out the window.  If anything, the world is actively continuing along its merry way. Go on, look!
Now [...]

“I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden [...]

Well, after about a week of setting up, tweaking, installing, uninstalling and threatening physical violence against a reasonably inanimate object, I have finally gotten my computer set up at Ellen’s.  The only thing left to do now is to install Google Chrome, although I haven’t fully decided to do that yet.
The main problem I was [...]