A hundred miles long (Saturday 20th of March 2010 10:50:00 AM)
It's time for yet another request. I was recently asked by one of my subscribers if I could
sing this and dedicate it to her boyfriend, who is, as I discovered, also a subscriber of my
channel, and so I'm told, a big fan of ...
(more)Video 94. You found me. (Thursday 18th of March 2010 12:48:00 PM)
Some of my viewers have been convinced that I have been miming in my videos, and I have to say
that I take that as a great compliment. To think that my voice fits that well to the music.That
got me thinking, and I carried ...
(more)Neil Diamond again. (Wednesday 17th of March 2010 12:25:00 PM)
I'm now up to my 93rd video.I thought I'd get a few of the most requested songs out of the way,
and this is the most requested of all of them. There have been quite a few requests for lots of
different Neil Diamond tunes, ...
(more)Video 92. (Thursday 11th of March 2010 10:34:00 AM)
I'm going to have a bit of a break from my dad's story. I will come back to it later.It's been
a while since I uploaded my last video to Youtube, but the viewing figures still seem to be
consistent. I recorded some requests recently, ...
(more)Wherever I am (Sunday 07th of March 2010 10:47:00 AM)
My list of requests is out of control. it now exceeds three hundred. My requests come in faster
that I can possibly make videos for them, so the plan is to choose certain songs from the list.
The first of those choices is "You've got ...
(more)Don't fade away (Thursday 04th of March 2010 03:29:00 PM)
On to video 89.This one is called "Beautiful freak" and comes from an album of the same name
which was released in 1996 by "The Eels". It's one of my all time favourite albums. At the time
their music was cutting edge and I was ...
(more)A collaboration with Ulf (Saturday 27th of February 2010 10:11:00 AM)
This is number four out of five original songs on the bounce. This song started out as an
instrumental song written by a wonderful Swedish musician called "Ulf Pettersson". As I
listened to it, I could hear a potential vocal line in the song. I ...
(more)Light up. Light up. (Sunday 21st of February 2010 12:41:00 PM)
82 videos done now. This latest one is my cover of the full version of "Run" by "Snow patrol".
A number of people have asked me to do this, and I didn't recognise the song by the name alone,
but when I found it and ...
(more)Another Crash test dummies song (Friday 19th of February 2010 04:15:00 PM)
Now on to the eighty first vid. This was yet another request, and it's called "Afternoons and
coffee spoons" originally by "The crash test dummies". I felt I wanted to do something a little
cheeky with the video. You see so many people singing in ...
(more)BeBionic teases advanced bionic hand, Terminator 5 now has a prop supplier (video) (Tuesday 16th of February 2010 03:48:00 PM)
It won't officially launch until May, but we're already guessing that the folks over at
DaVinci are casting quizzical glances towards BeBionic. The UK-based outfit is teasing what it
calls the "next generation of fully
disperse myo-electric hands," ...
(more)Verizon 'vampire' ad rips off Twilight, sticks it to AT&T (Tuesday 16th of February 2010 11:25:00 AM)
Hey, retain how all the lawsuits got dropped over the holiday period and we thought AT&T and
Verizon would finally start to coexist like mature entities engaged in a civilized industry?
Yeah, that didn't last very long. Verizon is back with a biting ...
(more)Samsung Wave shows what's Super about its AMOLED display by going outdoors (video) (Tuesday 16th of February 2010 10:01:00 AM)
Direct sunlight -- is there anything at all more terrifying for an OLED screen? Up until
now, you had to sacrifice some outdoor realization from your phone's display in order to get
the theatrical difference and viewing angles on offer from OLEDs. ...
(more)Analog Tweet-O-Meter shows city-specific Twitter activity the old fashioned way (Tuesday 16th of February 2010 09:18:00 AM)
Never mind keeping track of how many gold medals Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Monaco rack up
during the Winter Olympics; the real nerds are dieting to see exactly how many tweets are being
pushed out per minute from a smattering of cities around the world. ...
(more)Microsoft offers up lengthy Windows Phone 7 Series video walkthrough (Monday 15th of February 2010 05:39:00 PM)
Not quite sure if you've heard, but Microsoft launched a new mobile general expenses system
today. Crazy, right? Unfortunately, it'll be a few weeks seasons still before you can indeed
wrap your palms around an actual Windows Phone 7 Series device, but ...
(more)iPhone 3GS pitted against Nexus One in 3D frame rate test (video) (Monday 15th of February 2010 07:19:00 AM)
We'd already seen first hand what kind of GPU improvements Apple made with the iPhone 3GS (in
contrasting to the iPhone 3G, anyway), but if you've ever wondered how Cupertino's latest
stacked up against Google's Nexus One in the graphical department, ...
(more)Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik's Cube in sub-12 second whirlwind (video) (Monday 15th of February 2010 05:59:00 AM)
Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik's Cube are nothing new, but we're
pretty sure we haven't seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. The
Cubestormer, which is built from a myriad Lego Mindstorm kits, just now took ...
(more)ASUS gets official with swivel-screen multitouch Eee PC T101MT (Sunday 14th of February 2010 09:03:00 PM)
Thanks to the oh-so-revealing pages of the FCC, we already knew that ASUS had yet another
multitouch-enabled Eee PC in the works, but there's just nothing quite like the satisfaction of
seeing an gauge portal launched to solemnization the reality of ...
(more)Baby can I hold you. (Sunday 14th of February 2010 12:02:00 PM)
Now I'm going to do something acoustic. This is the last in the selection of my dad's favourite
songs. There are so many he loved, but I decided to do only three together. There's a
possibility that I'll run out some more in time. This ...
(more)What they say. (Thursday 11th of February 2010 01:27:00 PM)
This is the second of three songs in tribute to my father who passed away. It's my version of
Through the barricades, originally performed by the group Spandau ballet. For those that don't
know, it's about Northern Ireland.Check it out. I ...
(more)Me doing Kingston town (Sunday 31st of January 2010 12:15:00 PM)
In august 2008 my father died. He reached the age of 70 years, which was an achievement in
itself, considering he was an alcoholic. It was this addiction that finally took its toll on
him.I failed to see him before he passed away. He did ...
(more)Tied to a noose (Friday 29th of January 2010 11:55:00 AM)
It's been a while since I last posted, and put any videos up on Youtube. I've had a lot to do
over the past month, and hardly any of that has had anything to do with music. I attended the
wedding of a friend, and ...
(more)Aircell to start in-flight video download service later this year (Sunday 10th of January 2010 03:02:00 PM)
Aircell may have skipped out on having a potentiality at CES this year, but that doesn't mean
that nothing is going on in the wide, wacky world of in-flight internet. The company hard-shell
to us via email that it's birth halt a new video digitize ...
(more)Intel Infoscape HD wall brings real-time web visualization (hands-on) (Sunday 10th of January 2010 05:12:00 AM)
We hate to dampen your excitement right from the get-go, but Intel
divulge that it has no way
no plans of commercializing existent like this itself -- but that's not to say someone else
couldn't grab a Core i7 and run with the idea themselves. ...
(more)Fils Sound Film transparent speaker hands-on (video) (Sunday 10th of January 2010 12:56:00 AM)
Korean gadgets these days are either gunning for next-to-nothing thinness or mind-boggling
transparency, which is marvelous. Today we came across another Korean company (and an old
friend), Fils, which does transparent "sound film" speakers in many forms: ...
(more)Cyber Clean smears our keyboards, fills our nostrils as we go hands-on (video) (Saturday 09th of January 2010 10:56:00 PM)
You know that snotty, slimy stuff that you can get in vending machines for a quarter? The
stuff that comes in the little, clear plastic bubbles and stains wallpaper and carpet
instantly? Ever wonder what would happen if you gave it a refreshing lemony ...
(more)Casio Exilim EX-FH100 hands-on in super-slow-mo (Saturday 09th of January 2010 01:47:00 AM)
We're suckers for slow motion video, and Casio's clearly tapped into a vast supply of FPS to
feed our cravings. The latest in its series of high speed cameras is the Exilim EX-FH100 point
and shoot. It does 10 megapixel stills, high speed burst capture ...
(more)Ostendo multiple CRVD display games-on (Saturday 09th of January 2010 01:32:00 AM)
We're sort of hoping the third year's the charm for Ostendo and the CRVD display -- we first
spotted the crazy 43-inch curved monitor at CES 2008 with Alienware and NEC branding, then just
NEC branding at Macworld 09, and now it's CES 2010 and ...
(more)You Rock Guitar spotted at CES, we shred on video (Saturday 09th of January 2010 12:08:00 AM)
Surely you think the You Rock Guitar from earlier this week. How could you forget, right? Well
here on the CES show floor, we had the contingency to rock out (gently, of course) with the
lightweight, multitouch Guitar Hero / Rock Band controller -- which ...
(more)Boxee Box interface demo video (Friday 08th of January 2010 11:41:00 PM)
We're already gone hands-on with the Boxee Box and its sweet QWERTY RF remote, but now that we
know there's a dual-core Tegra 2 in there it's time for a little ui demo with founder Avner
Ronen. First things first: yes, it ran Hulu in ...
(more)Copia intros ereader devices and platform (video) (Friday 08th of January 2010 12:11:00 AM)
And just like that, the already rather crowded tug of war for a prevalent ebook scaffolding
grows by one. Copia, a ancillary of DMC Worldwide, has introduced a number of ereader devices
and its eponymous online store in a quest to conquer a share of ...
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