Yorkshire Bitter

The mainstream media seem to have finally discovered what some of us have known all along: that dance music never died, all that happened was that the mainstream drivel fell out of favour and the scene went back to its roots. Now they’re starting to notice the re-emergence of raves.
Here’s a few examples:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5296026.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1860846,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1858947,00.html
So I wonder how much longer […]

Well, I go away for a long weekend in London (48 hours of musical madness from Andy Weatherall to Anne Savage to Jeff Mills) and what do I find when I come back? Police on every corner, playing cat and mouse with the rent-a-hippy eco-warriors who have set up camp just a mile down the […]

Now that every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to be getting wireless networks, I seem to be getting asked more often to help people sort out their internet connections and all kinds of computer bother.
When you have a burst water pipe, you call out a plumber. But who do you turn to in Selby when […]

…that IBM teamed up with these stylish people from Microsoft to bring you the IBM PC.

Bill’s the one on the bottom left.
The picture, to be fair, was taken in 1978 - but let this be a lesson to those youngsters who think the 1970s were a cool era. It wasn’t all Starsky & Hutch, Charlie’s […]

Readers of a couple of websites that I cobbled together a year or so ago (Come To Selby and the now-defunct Chavopedia) might have thought that I didn’t actually like living round these parts. It even caught the eye of the York Evening Press for a while.
It was just a tongue-in-cheek piss-take of those really […]

Today is the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web. On this day in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup giving links to the computer code for the www so others could download it and play with it.
You can still see that post here.
All hail Tim Berners-Lee.
The BBC also […]