Last week, I reviewed a Christmas comp that was the last present I received last December. This CD was the very first present I received. Back in November, my good friend Martin Johns sent me his annual Christmas comps (which I'll be reviewing some time down the road). Inside the box was a wrapped C...

This is part of a series I started in March 2008 - you may want to go back and look at older parts if you're new to this series. If you've been following the commits to the Github repository, you've already seen this go in... Specifically, this was the state as at the end of this...

Something to scribble on your "wants" list: Mute are releasing a 20 track best-of from Deutsch Amerikanischen Freundschaft, to sit alongside their 30th anniversary tour....

I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto PowerShell as my default command line environment because its way more cool than the cmd shell and even a nerd with a penchant for undead languages sometimes worries about being cool to some tin...

This is the very last Christmas CD I received as a present last December. It came from my best friend Joel who took a brief moment from his Indianapolis holiday getaway with his charming wife Samantha to check out a used CD store to see if there was something inside that I didn't have. Joel actually...

This is part of a series I started in March 2008 - you may want to go back and look at older parts if you're new to this series. Plugging in an operator precedence parser The code as at the end of this part is  available here. A while back I wrote a post about writing a simple operato...

Here is another compilation I just finished working on. This is a follow-up to my Novelty Cigarette Lighter of Doom and Werewolf in Unnecessarily Short Gym Shorts compilations. These are all songs that share a title with a movie. Most of these don't actually have anything to do with the movie they s...

Initially I decided to break from my normal rule (loosely enforced, as I am policeman, judge and jury as well as offender) of listening to the original album. My copy is the five-disc vinyl release from 1985, but it would be another three years before I lived again in the same house as my turntable....

Full color inserts and on-disc printing 2 disc set  New Musical Express- Poll Winners Concert 1965-2 Disc Set- Moody Blues, Freddie & Dreamers, Georgie Fame, Seekers,  Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana & Mindbenders, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black,The Searchers, Dusty Springfi...

This is the 15th in a series. Please start on part 1 first if you haven't already to get the background, or see here for the full series so far Starting on the parserThe time has come. All the previous parts to this series were mostly written a long time ago, but went through various ...