Alien Pastures

Tonight I saw an interview with John Cooper Clarke on television. Once called “the punk poet”, his star rose in the late seventies and early eighties with energetic performances – reciting his poetry on stage almost like firing bullets at you. Dressed up all in black he would look like a skinny scarecrow. John Cooper [...]

R.I.P. Lux Interior
On wednesday february 4th 2009, we lost another icon of the music scene. Lux Interior, co-founder and singer of The Cramps, died at the age of 62. The old bastard!
The Cramps were a major influence on the development of my musical taste in the early 80’s (yeah, previous century… I am old). Pure [...]

*** This post was updated with new JavaScript code on 27-oct-2009 ***
Sure, you can install Video Downloadhelper for Firefox if you want an easy way to download your favourite YouTube videos.
However, these will be downloaded in “FLV” format (Flash video). Nowadays, many videos on YouTube are available in High-Definition (HD) format and you may want [...]

What is the alien listening at – when it is the midnight hour?
Simple: I never know in advance.
At home I run a Slackware Linux server on which I have installed Icecast. Icecast is a Shoutcast-compatible (and Open Source) multimedia streaming server. In other words, my server outputs a continuous stream of music (exactly like Internet [...]

Oh my!
I always liked the Nintendo DS for the innovation it brought to the console market. Nintendo has a unique grasp of what makes a game really good and enjoyable, and they continue to invent hardware which is a match to their games. Here at home we own a Gameboy Advance as well as a [...]

I thought this would be a cool post to make.
It has nothing to do with Slackware – or computers – at all. It is about my past as a musical “junkie”. Before computers became the rage, and when there was no Internet, I spent a lot of time and money on my main hobby [...]