There is another blog, you know. I’m resurrecting vinyl obsession. I don’t know why. I still have the old url, but with Freenetname, who charge £90 to transfer domains out. Suck.

I haven’t bought many records lately, but Christmas was a fruitful time: Dubplates From The Lamp 2 (Pork Recordings — on CD) and both Mr Scruff albums on vinyl. Can’t be bad.

"A new way to exchange music online": xchangemusic.com. Mind you, I’m not sure if I want to exchange music, unless someone wants to take my Russ Conway album off my hands in exchange for something, ooh, any good.

I nearly forgot! Happy New Year! Probably happier if you’re not back at work yet (I am) but, hey, doesn’t really matter does it?

While we’re on the subject of piracy: Tim O’Reilly: Piracy is Progressive Taxation (and other stories). Repeat after me: "Music sharing increases artist exposure, causing an increase in music sales".

Looky see — it’s the Microsoft Hall of "Innovation". The premise is that, basically, every product M$ have ever released has been bought, copied or stolen, never invented solely by themselves. And they have the audacity to call the average home user a pirate, by the erosion of fair-use rights of copyrighted material through technologies like Palladium. What kind of world is it we’re living in?

I don’t know. Did they think they wouldn’t get caught? ;-)

Discogs.com is two years old! It’s a fantastic site. People keep emailing me, wanting to buy my records, which is nice.

I can’t believe I always do this: post for a while, then go completely awol for about three months. In my defence, m’lud, I have just moved house… Back to the plot: we have a new house! It’s a late-sixties mid-terrace in Bath, not too attractive from the outside but I figure that we don’t generally have to look at the outside ;-)

Woo! Yay! Go to b3ta.com (handy hint: rhymes with peter.com) and be amused. There’s also rathergood.com. Kittens!