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The Wire 2011 Rewind

Posted by on in Listening

Every year I wait for the Wire’s review of albums and see how many I have managed to pick up over the year. Some year’s I do not so bad, but this year I’ve done really badly. Never mind. Time to start to listen to a few of these albums I think.

Spotify and the arrival of the SPAPP

Posted by on in Listening, Mobile Applications, Tech

Last Sunday I went along to music hack day and a lot of the hacks used spotify’s new app platform. More of what I think about platforms another time.

I was a spotify user a while back but just ended up not using it anymore over a year ago. So I decided to fire up the service again to see if I was missing out on anything.

Perhaps I just didn’t give it a good enough chance but it did feel like I had no use for it. Maybe I’m not the target audience or maybe I need to upgrade to get the most out of it. Whatever it is I’m not finding it useful so far.

I like the idea of it and I thought some of the SPAPPs were kind of cool, but perhaps it needs a bit of time to mature.

The Fantastic Mr Fox

Posted by on in Films

I love this film, it is so beautiful and so charming, but then I like most of Wez Anderson’s films on the whole. Some more than others, and I probably like this one 3rd or 4th. Something like that anyway.

The art of zero tasking

Posted by on in Creative Process, Stuff

You might have heard of multi-tasking or even mono-tasking, but you may not have heard of zero-tasking. Zero-tasking is the art of being able to do nothing simultaneously. That is, at the same time as doing nothing at all.

I’m working very hard at becoming a grand master of zero-tasking, but it is a lot harder than you think. It’s so easy just to break off and do something. But you must resist!