The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
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
Ramblings / 30 August 2019 / John / 0
So I was wondering how Eventide could possibly get away with charging $200 for their Blackhole reverb VST plugin. I downloaded the demo, fired up the Toraiz AS-1 and played the Bladerunner intro. Oh. That’s why it’s $200.