Seven years ago, in May 2014, Reuben (then 5 years old) told me that he wanted to write a song called “Oh I am a spaceman”. Over the next hour we wrote the song and recorded it with a wonderful drum accompaniment from Reuben and uploaded it to Soundcloud.
It is possible that the accompanying children’s book may appear this year.
Continue reading “Oh I Am a Spaceman” book in progress
So… thanks in a large part to the unprecedented disaster that is Brexit, Britons who until now have been used to panic buying toilet paper and flour have now turned their attention to panic buying fuel.
Continue reading I’ve been buying diesel in a panic (but not panic buying)
If you are not already using a text expander application then I highly recommend that you start. It will save you hundreds, if not thousands, of keystrokes every month.
As the name suggests, a text expander application is a utility that runs in the background and looks out for you typing predefined phrases which it then replaces with usually a longer text version.
For example, when I type [email protected], my text expander replaces this with my full email address: [email protected], saving me 25 keystrokes.
Continue reading Espanso text expander
This has been quite the week for cycling for me. I went out on my bike for the first time in over a year. Broke my bike. Took it in to get fixed and ended up buying a new one.
Continue reading Cycling adventures
This year, the New York-based thrash metal band Anthrax turns 40.
Over the last two months on their YouTube channel they’ve been releasing a retrospective on their career with interviews with band members, producers, friends and metalheads across the globe. As I understand it they have 40 of these in the pipeline. So far we’ve reached episode 22 which has taken us to 2003 and probably my favourite Anthrax albums, We’ve Come For You All. I saw them live twice on that tour.
This evening (morning UK-time), they celebrated the event with a live stream event with a nearly 2 hours 15 minutes concert spanning most of their entire 40-year, 12-studio album career. (Typically, their John Bush era material was disappointingly missing.)
Continue reading Happy 40th birthday Anthrax