RTE Music

A minor bugbear of mine (though in the way of minor bugbears, it annoys me more than many many things which deserve far more opprobrium) is RTE radio shows that fail to use original theme music. For instance, The Business' use of Baba O'Reilly. Firstly, I doubt The Who need the money. Secondly , there is something cheap (not in the literal sense I imagine) and , well, dull about it.

On my high horse I would say that ad a public service broadcaster and a major commissioner of original music, RTE has a responsibility not to neglect possible opportunities for Irish composers. On a lower horse I'd just say wouldn't it be entertainingly to have an open contest for radio themes with the listeners judging?

I need my space

A functioning space bar is quite important for typing at any length. You can still make a space, by hitting a little pressure pad in the centre of where the space bar used to be, but it is a pretty draining process. The space bar on my laptop has disappeared, wrenched off by my very innovative daughter. Of course, if I was truly consistent with the spirit of this blog, I'd see this as a grand experiment in shifting my sense of a useful interface. The QWERTY keyboard is designed to slow down typists -early typewriters jammed readily at high speeds - and yet is still the dominant text entry interface.