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Why I bought an iPad Pro
I’ve never been a real tablet user. I’ve had iPads around the house for years, mostly borrowed ones or ones from work, but I’ve never really used them properly. I tried magazine reading – but ended up with a backlog of Wired magazines, I tried watching things, but found I preferred a tv and my…
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My songs of the year
My songs of the Year So I didn’t blog here that much. But I did listen to a lot of music. I decided to write a bit about that music here. Here’s some songs that made an impact on me this year. The War On Drugs – Pain I don’t really know what it is…
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So Fionn Regan made a new album
So that’s good news, after my previous two blogs. Hope this is not the album cover though ;). https://twitter.com/fionnregan/status/793052771322912768
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After I wrote about Fionn Regan last week…
After I wrote about Fionn Regan last week, it’s nice to hear Abacus will be sampled on the new Bon Iver album. Still doesn’t tell us what he’s up to though. But he gave permission I presume. Or someone did.
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Apple being Apple
Wireless EarPods: never ever have my earbuds / headphones stopped working due to anything other than the cable breaking. Wires will have to go at some point. Magic also means an effortless experience of using them and trying them for a few days will tell whether the whole charging thing is manageable. And whether the…
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Go see Kubo & The Two Strings
I saw Kubo & The Two Strings last Saturday, a great stop-motion animated film by Laika (who also did the wonderful Coraline). It’s a pretty amazing story combining a ‘Legend of Zelda’-type quest, the stories that make a life and a wonderful fairytale all in one. It’s a beautiful world to get lost in, full…
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Apple tax
Letter from Tim Cook / Apple: The Commission’s move is unprecedented and it has serious, wide-reaching implications. It is effectively proposing to replace Irish tax laws with a view of what the Commission thinks the law should have been. This would strike a devastating blow to the sovereignty of EU member states over their own tax…
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What is Fionn Regan up to?
I’ve enjoyed Fionn Regan’s music ever since a fellow member of a forum I posted a lot on, send me his Hotel Room EP as a ‘Thank You’ for some bootlegs (read: live recordings of a band) I sent him. After releasing his excellent debut The End of History in 2006 (10 years ago, wow!) he released a couple…
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Be kind & active
2016 has been in general, a pretty crappy year so far when reviewing newspaper – website – headlines. Besides all the attacks on innocent people from Baghdad to Brussels, from Paris to Istanbul and then everything in the United States on top of that. And I’m probably forgetting several wars going on right now. In…