Advent 24: Till Eulenspiegel
The top-prize for annoying till-routines goes jointly in my head to Boots and Smiths. Smiths at airports always seem to be running special offers, so that whatever you take to…
Advent 11: Rite and Wrong
Most of the time, my experience, education, instinct and what I’ve picked up from friends and colleagues serves me quite well when it comes to speculating and arguing about music…
Advent 8: Reasons to be cheerful 5, 5, 4, 3, 11, 7, 6, 6, 9, 4, 4
Stravinsky’s Agon is a dastardly complex score, serialist, polyphonic, polyrhythmic, you name it, and Balanchine’s choreography takes no easy ways out. But that’s just the technical challenge of the piece,…
Hooray for Siteground
You might have noticed that my site was down over the weekend (database issues), and for rather dull reasons, I couldn’t generate a support ticket to my webhost, Siteground, until…
Take my survey
I’m trialling some polling software for another project. If you’re feeling generous with your time (it’ll take about 45 seconds, no longer than an Imperial female solo), please Click Here…
Net curtains for critics?
From the technology pages of the Guardian, Is it Curtains for Critics?, a long discussion on the arguably diminished role of ink-and-paper critics in an online world.