It’s fun planning for a new year. All the things you want to achieve this year. One of which is creating more videos. And videos need music. And music usually has copyright problems. So I need a music program to create my own music. I have a lovely Roland touch-sensitive electric...

This year I started doing dance lessons, as Les and Serina have been doing performances for a while, and suggested I join in. The hardest part I found was learning to follow: in traditional ballroom dancing, the female follows the lead of the male. But after 35 years of playing piano and being...

I finally got my first iPod, courtesy of frequent flyer points from a few years back. So until last week I had a cheap radio/CD player in the kitchen with really bad speakers. It really didn’t inspire the best cooking experience.  I was tempted to use my son’s old speakers...

I just finished reading Time Magazine’s top inventions of 2005 – a little late, as it gets passed to me from my father-in-law in a pile a few weeks after he’s finished with them. The magazine’s top nomination was for the cloning of a dog. Woof. At Time.com, there is a...