Month: December 2020

My albums of 2020

All the albums I bought or acquired in 2020

My annual review of what I’ve most enjoyed listening to during the last 12 months, and my albums of the year.

  1. Fish—Weltschmertz
  2. Triptykon—Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
  3. Mr Bungle—The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
  4. Metallica—S&M2
  5. Lamb of God—Lamb of God
  6. Deified—Anthrobscene
  7. Mastodon—Medium Rarities
  8. Liquid Death—Greatest Hates
  9. Nine Inch Nails—Ghosts V: Together
  10. Nine Inch Nails—Ghosts VI: Locusts
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Clergy Malt Club

Image by Ersler on iStock

After the last Christmas Eve service, in church rectories and manses across the world, many clergy will sit down and pour themselves a glass of single malt whisky, take a photo and post it to social media with the hashtag #clergymaltclub.

This year, in collaboration with my good friend, the Revd David Meldrum in South Africa, we now have an official website to advertise it:

https://clergymalt.club.

Installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on an old Asus X551CA laptop from 2013

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One of the items that I inherited after Mum died was her old laptop, an Asus X551CA that I bought her for Christmas 2013. This month I replaced the battery, upgraded the hard drive and installed Linux.

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