The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 22 August 2026 / John / 0
As tends to happen with art, one thing led to another and Mahler took my hand and went skipping merrily down a rabbit hole of Bruckner (who I’d had no exposure to previously). As someone whose symphonic experience really stopped with Beethoven, the advances in the form made by these two TITANS can’t be understated.
Ramblings / 19 June 2026 / John / 0
Well, I say Mahler week but it’s been a fortnight and it’s still not finished. Back when I started this blog – about 30 years ago – it wasn’t uncommon for me to say things like “oh, I enjoyed that piece of music – I really must get around to listening to more of it”.
Ramblings / 29 February 2024 / John / 0
The Web is dead, consumed by adverts that chase you around the page, cat memes and pr0n. I remember when it was full of the promise of free information for everyone and then the fucking suits arrived. I guess I’m guilty of aiding and abetting them.
Ramblings / 17 May 2022 / John / 4
So, it looks like I’m averaging a post a year at the moment. That’s a bit shit. I guess it’s the nature of the way things are going – not much point in spending time expertly crafting a pithy and concise blog post when I can spew every minor thought that lurches through my mind
Ramblings / 28 July 2021 / John / 0
Here we see, in all its glory, the little mini-cluster of Computery Goodness which serves you these hallowed pages.
Ramblings / 11 August 2020 / John / 0
There is a scurrilous rumour circulating that Abe Yospe’s wife googles things really quickly to prove him wrong. This is untrue.
Ramblings / 12 February 2020 / John / 0
You’re welcome. You can download it by right-clicking here and selecting “save link as..”.
Music, Ramblings / 12 September 2019 / John / 0
Nice to be in Orbit by Mare Undarum
Ramblings / 6 September 2019 / John / 0
It seems platform upgrades are the only time I post here now! Anyhoo – the Raspberry Pi 3B+, grand though it was, was struggling a bit with running MariaDB, so I’ve upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4. Quad core, 4Gb of RAM and a wee fan to keep it cool – it’s a compact wee