Some months ago, Apple acquired a music service that I didn’t care about: Lala. I didn’t care because between my personal library in iTunes and on my iPod, Spotify (via proxy), Last.FM, and Hype Machine I was well hydrated for music discovery and appreciation. Lala was famous for its ‘web songs’ model, where you pay [...]

This time last year — that’s March — I did something new. Annually, geeks of the web, film and music variety descend upon Austin, Texas for South By Southwest. 2007 was a blast; allowing me to meet a huge roster of new and wonderful people, whilst enjoying seven days in the sun and heat of Texas. It [...]

Dave and I spent the entire evening playing Pro Evo 6 on the XBox. It was awesome. Especially winning 7–2. I digress though, as more awesome was our soundtrack. I would like to highly recommend that you listen to all of the following:

‘Most of the Remixes…’, the new album from Soulwax. Which features [...]

It’s been too long and there’s too much to write about, so in unhelpful munged-together form, here’re the last few months of my life:

Work at Yahoo! is going very well indeed. It took a little while to settle in, and my tolerance for the Cambridge–London commute is variable at best, but right now I’m having [...]

10 years ago, on Monday June 16th 1997, OK Computer was released. This record changed my life and the reality that an entire decade has passed with it as my persistent soundtrack is both awesome and terrifying.

Take some time to play it today, all the way through. It’s rare that something so special is created; [...]