I was introduced to the Micriobiology Bytes blog the other day. It contains interesting looks at microbiology stuff written for the layman.

It also has a podcast, which I subscribed to. In fact it has two: a normal MP3 feed and an ‘enhanced’ feed for iTunes sufferers users. The latter includes videos and stuff which standard MP3 players wouldn’t ( Read more... )

One of the things you learn about when you start developing some piece of software is the ‘industry standard’ data structure for that software. You get to learn about PNGs or HTML or SVG and the previously written tools to help you use them… then comes the eye-opener. Whatever it is that you’re doing, if there’s more than half a dozen other people ( Read more... )

I’ve just been listening to the current episode of the Coverville podcast, which focuses on U2. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not the music that I dislike, it’s the band. All the covers on the podcast are really nice - but the covers done by U2 of others’ songs are awful.

Unchained Melody, you would think, would be difficult to do ( Read more... )

I was going to hold this off until I had more to add, but I couldn’t resist mentioning this while I had the link to hand.

Two music-oriented podcasts

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  The Roadhouse
  
  An hour long show with rare and new blues stuff. I’m not really a big blues person but sometimes you get too much variety with playlists. With this you’re never surprised by death ( Read more... )