Stephen Pieper’s Notebook

| January 28, 2020

‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75 (Morning Star)

MILES ELLINGHAM meets the unique left-wing singer with his partner and muse Alfreda Benge at their Lincolnshire redoubt

My On This Day page reminded me that it’s Robert Wyatt’s birthday. Here’s a new interview with him in The Morning Star.

| January 27, 2020

I got this little hi-res music player. It sounds great but the user interface would have been considered crap fifteen years ago.

Cowon Plenue D2

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| January 27, 2020

I get a lot of emails that are meant for people with a similar name to mine. Do people really sign up to things with the wrong email address or do people just guess at another’s address?

Some of the messages are updates and newsletters with no unsubscribe option. I’ve noticed many need the recipient to log into an account before making changes. Those ones are getting marked “spam”.

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78: Amanda Rush, aka @arush

| January 21, 2020

This week’s guest, Amanda Rush is a web developer and accessibility practitioner who loves to cook and read. She also loves the IndieWeb movement and Micro.blog. Of her own blog, she says: I want to own all my content and have control over it, and to that end I am constantly updating this site so ...

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| January 20, 2020

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven from BBC

He's the most famous composer in Western music but what makes Beethoven Beethoven?

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| January 13, 2020

Leonard Rossiter: A difficult man - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide (British Comedy Guide)

In this edition of Comedy Chronicles, Graham McCann looks at the remarkable career of actor Leonard Rossiter, and one fateful meeting that lost him a part in an iconic BBC sitcom.

Nice bit of UK sitcom history and insight into one of the great comedy actors here.

| January 12, 2020

My original copy of Rush’s 2112. I got this as an end of term school prize. It’s nearly forty years old and still in decent condition.

It’s not my favourite Rush album but it brings back memories, good and bad, of those days.

Rush album - 2112