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Bought and listening to 'Bop - Punks Not Dead'.  Loving it! 

Ripping Streetsounds' ACID TRAX LP tonight and this baby is on it: 'Touch Me' - Scrappy.

http://youtu.be/4HiyiHU_VkQ

The album fits in well with the latest PE material but also stands out on its own.  It has that personal feel to it that a solo album should have.

Banksy at Brixham fish market?

Pretty cool Victorian Star Wars outfits.

Today I read a well written blog post over at NPR Music called '€˜You'€™ve never heard Public Enemy'€™s "€˜It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back"'€™ in which one of their young interns, Austin Cooper, listens to Public Enemy'€™s classic album for the first time, and hated it. Here's why he hated it.

Tonight I have set up my Raspberry Pi with XBMC, S-Video and PAL mode. There were a couple of hurdles to get over but it's working fine now.

So the 1980s had introduced me to Hip-Hop - a new, exciting and fresh sound straight from the USA and I loved it. But there was a new buzz growing in the UK at the time and I'll admit that I hated it - at first. House had been growing for a couple of years and I'd first

Never assume you know why a decision was made unless you were in the room when it was made.

Jerry Weinberg described the 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming in his classic "The Psychology of Computer Programming". We copied the version on Jeff Atwood's blog.

The finale was great. Without giving too much away I think it was a fitting ending to the adventure. So Thank You, ABC, for Breaking Bad.

Cool mix of some real old school Hip Hop from Diplo.

I seem to have been born at a pretty good time for music. My parents aren’t big music fans; my Mother used to be into Glam Rock and bits of Hendrix whilst my Father used to play Country music on Sunday mornings. How that mix started my musical journey from Glam Rock to Hip-Hop and beyond is anyones guess.

Its been like that for 6 minutes now...