Clouds over the sun

A Prominent Solar Prominence does not do justice to an larger-than-Earth-sized cloud of gas trapped above the sun in its magnetic field. Just an incredible picture.

Album sales growing

El Reg has a nicely thought through article on the fact that album sales are growing in both the UK and Australia. This basically means that most people are buying more albums if downloaders aren’t buying anything. More likely: everyone is buying more because...

Useful apps

Free hotkey scripting tool (I use Macro Express, but this looks like a neat OSS alternative). Motherboard monitor helps you check if your poor overstressed box is running too hot.

Cooling your PC

Some relatively inexpensive ways of cooling your PC more effectively. Time for a new PC first – my current one is six years old. Respect to the old codger.Par the firstPart the secondPart the third

Singing madness

From the “what on earth possessed me” department. Why would anyone say “OK, sure, sounds like a nice plan” to doing late evensong (6:30pm) in Guildford Cathedral on a Sunday evening? It’s a slightly scary building, also known as the house...

Ride through Chernobyl

GHOST TOWN is a pictorial and excusably odd English record of a trip on bike back through the Chernobyl dead zone. Very, very interesting.

Free PC with ads

Metronomy Desktop Marketing gives away a free PC with ads that play every 20 minutes. Too painful for me I think, but it won’t be long before there’s a hack. Watch this space.