The latest target in Israel’s terror campaign is a school in Jabaliya. Let me be clear that this wasn’t a terrorist training camp. It was a children’s school, run by the United Nations. It was clearly marked as a school, and like all ...
Posted by David Alexander Russell at Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:22:59 +0000
After failing dismally in the early parts of last year, I’m going to be giving twittering Film Fight another chance (on my twitter feed). For anyone who didn’t see it last year, I’ll be writing film reviews before the later (and often...
Posted by Gary Fleming at Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:41:00 +0000
After our 1-0 win in the FA Cup third round against Scunthorpe (I have no idea how the game was as I missed the highlights and the BBC website has very little to say on the matter), we (Watford FC) have been drawn against the eventual winners of the re...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:59:00 +0000
Today I started having a play around with GarageBand on my Mac. It's essentially a piece of software that allows you to create music tracks either by recording your own stuff, or piecing together the music with software instruments. I've used it a few ...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:33:00 +0000
As well as the Anomoto app for the iPhone, another piece of good news that came out over Christmas was the move by wikispaces to enable teachers to create accounts for their students. Anyone with a K12 account can now very easily set up a user name, em...
Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:56:16 +0000
On Friday I found myself in Cambuslang recording the basic tracks for my split with Rosoce Vacant. They’ve came out pretty nicely, and all thats left to do is some overdubs of percussion, perhaps some drums, and some Judith Harron parts. One trac...
Posted by Dave Hughes at Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:57:50 +0000
I’m sitting here listening to a podcast of a radio show that was broadcast yesterday in Manitoba, Canada. Not what I would normally do, certainly. However this is a bit different., this three hour show (podcast cut down to 1hr 40 when you take ou...
Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:44:19 +0000
I’m sure most people reading this will have seen Animoto before, but if you haven’t: it’s a great wee service that bills itself as the end of slideshows. Basically it lets you upload images that you want to put together in a presentat...
Posted by Stuart Meldrum at Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:33:30 +0000
As has become tradition (see last year), it’s time for the best of 2008 awards here at sunny Solitude: Best album of 2008 - I was struggling to come up with anything for this, mostly because I can’t really remember what I’ve gotten t...
Posted by Gary Fleming at Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:18:00 +0000