New album from Sons & Daughters, an excellent Scottish indie band. Here’s the first video: And while I’m talking about Sons & Daughters, this is a song from their first full-length that I love:
Archive | March, 2008
Listening to: Counting Crows, August and Everything After
I want to be Bob Dylan | Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky | When everybody loves you, son | That’s just about as funky as you can be Is there anybody who listened to rock music in 1993/94 who doesn’t remember those words? If there were a top ten [...]
Free wireless Internet access, the not-so-legal way
It feels like a bit of an old topic. It’s been discussed many times before, and the outcome is pretty much always: be cautious. Don’t steal someone else’s Internet access. Depending on where you live, it could be a criminal offense to just jump onto an unprotected home wi-fi router and connect to the ‘Net. [...]
Building lightweight business apps on SharePoint
One of the concepts that finally emerged clearly during this year’s SharePoint Conference is the idea of using SharePoint as an effective platform to build simple business applications. And this is not a developer task either: SharePoint lets power users create their own applications by using these ready-to-deploy ingredients: SharePoint Designer Views Lists Workflows Access [...]
South Bend, Indiana
On my way back from Seattle last Saturday, I had another small travel adventure (my adventure on the way there is described here). A blizzard had been announced back in Toronto (it was known by Friday afternoon that we’d get a lot of snow – 30cm+). So I tried calling Air Canada the night before [...]
Veganizing Anthony Bourdain
Hezbollah Tofu is a blog trying to organize vegans to “veganize” Anthony Bourdain’s recipes. They’ll publish them as a zine once they have collected enough. Bourdain is quoted from Kitchen Confidential: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, [...]
Listening to: Feeder, Comfort in Sound
This is such a fantastic listen, it’s hard to know where to begin. Feeder are a British rock band that has been around since 1992. Originally from South Wales, they released 2 EPs and 3 albums between 1995 and 2001. Just as they were starting to experience their first true UK national successes (good album [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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