Lappy fight

Tempted to wrestle control of laptop back from eldest son by simply buying another, and this one comes well recommended. (I'd have made the picture smaller if I knew how.)

Cherry blossom

One of many striking pictures at the Photographer in Japan photoblog.

Track tweets

Here's the neatest webby app, for next time something big happens, and you want to follow what the world's tweets on the subject. Monitter. I think the home page tells you all you need to know.

Grass roots

Mowing the lawn too much?

Do like Google do. Get goats.

As if we'd never been away

Now, where were we?

As followers of the Twitter feed may have noticed from yesterday evening, we could have been here at blip.fm, a website which I will describe, in the interests of clarity, as briefly as possible.

You use it to tell people about tracks you like. It helps you to acquire contacts to people who like the same sort of thing. Their recommendations expand your musical horizons, and yours theirs. And by hooking up to Twitter you also have an alternative means of expression to people following your feed.

Yep. That's it.

Happy birthday, Great Britain

May 1st through the years.