Llyn y Fan Fach

Llyn y Fan Fach; Home of the Lady in the Lake.

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It came from the Baltic

Two interesting pieces of modern classical from Estonia. The album doesn't appear to be out until October, but I'll be keeping an eye out for it's availability.

So this is a thing...

So right now, I can't think of anything I want to watch more...

Above

Arena from Páraic Mc Gloughlin on Vimeo.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Slashdot appears to be dead - or, at the very least, deeply resting. Now it's not been a healthy place for a very long time - just compare today's sanitised front-page with the blinkenlight hacks you'd get before the turn of the millennium - but, even in it's current state, for it to have lasted over 20 years, under so many owners, while the web undertook such rapid change, was a deeply impressive achievement.

Now it's death shouldn't be that big a deal for me, my tastes have changed and I've not been a regular reader for over a decade but... it's Slashdot! And Slashdot made up a pretty big part of my original forays onto the internet and, for better or worse, pointed me in the direction of a number of things that had a long term impact on my development as a person. To let it pass without even a murmur of acknowledgement would be a mistake.

It's the end of an era. 

And I feel old.