Recent content by palpnorte

Yes, it really really is for real. I get the feeling that MS was hoping people were going to be more astonished, but it seems they are taking it in their stride. https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/65826/windows-10-bash-preview palp

God, I don't know either. Good for developers, apparently. I read that it is a hangover from Microsoft's scheme to run Android programs natively, which did it so well that they realised that no one would ever bother to write any Universal Apps, so cancelled it and the linux bit just hung on. I...

Happily, Ubuntu becomes an integral part of Windows 10 in the forthcoming July Update - and as a proper subsystem, not a virtual machine, thanks to a love-in with Canonical. http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash So at last people will be able to awk...

Hey Dec! I was there that night too, probably because first nights were a little cheaper. Having a few tons of sand and a real river on stage was quite something. Do you remember that at the end, a selection of the audience actually started to boo? Which made everyone else so outraged that they...

Saw it and thought it was brilliant, everything I had hoped. I found the staging a perfect way of doing Glass - treating it like a masque makes perfect sense.The juggling was good too. Anthony Roth Constanzo had a beautiful pure and loud tone - it made me realise how much counter tenors have...

Thanks - that sounds fantastic. Did you see The Perfect American? I somehow managed to miss it, and doubt it will ever be revived, but I think that was Improbable Theatre too. palp

Is anyone else going to see this? I've got tickets for next week and am getting so excited that I actually almost typed super excited. I was lucky enough to see the same team's Satyagraha (Improbable Theatre / Phelim McDermott) last year, which (rather theatrically) I think is one of the...

Over here in Hammersmith & Fulham, not a sign of a UKIP or a LibDem, and the atmosphere is rather like the Shire on the morning after the expulsion of Sauron. I have little cartoon bluebirds circling my head as I type.

Anyone else enthusiastic about the recent Laibach album, 'Spectre'? The Slovenian barmpot seems to have abandoned his recent attempts to be sectioned (Space Nazis and a WTF version of the Art of Fugue) and come up with a corker. This is the opening track, 'The Whistleblowers' - It has a...

Yes, - everything that everybody in this thread has said. Go to: https://www.justgiving.com/Stephen-Sutton-TCT for donations (A donation of £50 per pfm member would amount to £951,550 - just think how much more lasting satisfaction that might give than a set of Naim Fraimchip floor...

Sadly, Jazzloft is closing down, and although they say that they will continue to sell their space-saving sleeves 'into the future', people do say a lot of optimistic things in these circumstances, so if you are considering replacing your CD jewel cases with their poly bag arrangements or are...

The two Beatle homes, administered by the National Trust are magnificent examples of sensitive curation, and if a fan, truly unmissable. Because of their size, you have to book online, and will be picked up by a minibus for twelve at the Jury's Inn at Albert Dock. On the way, Beatles music...

Anyone else having Cthurkey? At least everyone gets a leg.

'Boohbah', Anne Wood's programme before 'In The Night Garden' not only demands 4K, HD, 3D, surround sound but lashings of class A drugs. Ambient Chillax TV for toddlers on a Sunday morning coming down after a couple of Doves. Oh, and the story in the middle is narrated by Chris Langham.

It's the court artists who are on drugs (really bad ones).