• De-clouding: Music

    I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]

  • Going Digital: Books

    This is part of a mini-series of posts about 'Going Digital'. If you missed it you might want to read the introduction. Books and Me In theory, I love books. I'd love to be the kind of person that finishes a decent book once a week. In reality I'm great at starting reading books, and […]

  • Going Digital: Music

    This is part of a mini-series of posts about 'Going Digital'. If you missed it you might want to read the introduction. My History of Digital Music Here's a little potted history of digital music in my life. Let me let you in to a little secret: I thought Mini-Discs were great! But the rest […]

  • Going Digital – Introduction

    You might think: ‘Ross? Yeah, he’s a real geek. All the latest gadgets.’ But it’s not quite true. And it’s especially not true in the world of entertainment. We barely have HDTV, I’m not a big gamer, and we still buy most of our music on CD and we purchase real paper books. But I’ve […]