Archive for 2015/09


Oslo

Yesterday I was at the National Gallery looking at the paintings and I wondered if creativity stemmed from bad weather, sitting inside on a rainy day letting your mind go free… I just had an hour to kill, the museum was close by, and I walked into the halls and I was brought back to […]

Prince

Why is this a story? Reviewing his latest album, whose name eludes me, is like writing about a blank CD. Because no one can hear it. I get the train-wreck value. With the diminutive one and his constant anti-internet/technology blathering. But why give him ink at all? Why not say NEXT and move on? If […]

Eric Schmidt On Music

“In the next generation of software, machine learning won’t just be an add-on that improves performance a few percentage points; it will really replace traditional approaches. To give just one example: a decade ago, to launch a digital music service, you probably would have enlisted a handful of elite tastemakers to pick the hottest new […]

Heathrow

I was looking for an outlet and then I realized I didn’t have the adapter. I’m in the BA lounge, waiting for my flight to Oslo. There’s a woman using her speakerphone in an indeterminate foreign language and it’s bothering me, you see I need to work in silence, but I will struggle through. I’m […]