6.55 million rice cookers are sold annually in Japan, there's probably a reason for that. This is true of most of the far east. Taiwanese department stores have rice cooker sections where western stores have microwave sections. However, the type of rice that is generally used there is more like wha...

American Music Club. Did you see the reunited AMC live? I love their records so I'd definitely be interested in seeing an AMC show. I'm seeing them in a couple of weeks. The new LP sounds incredibly polished but they'll never get anywhere as big as they should have been in the early 90s. They're pl...

Wire Didn't technically reform as they didn't split up. I've seen them half a dozen times since 1988 and they have played a different set every time, with the only song they ever refer to from their original back catalogue being '12XU'. The only time they played any more of the old songs was for th...

I've had most of the CZs at different times but could never get my head around the programming despite having software to help. The last one was a first generation CZ-1000 with a couple of the voice packs but no internal memory (just needed a battery I think), which got sold to a psy-trance outfit i...

Long time reader, first time poster here. I checked out most of the virtualisation tools for Macs a couple of months ago and VMWare Fusion came out on top in terms of performance and CPU and memory usage, so I recommend that. To keep a Windows client under control use TinyXP, which is a stripped dow...