Category Archives: Songs

The sound of outage

Posted on 26 March 2015 by stuff writer

Here’s a song to sing the next time your network goes down.  Click the play button on the youtube karaoke, and sing it yourself: Hello outage my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because of vulnerability creeping … Continue reading →

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Pottering around in the precise rosegarden

Posted on 31 August 2012 by stuff writer

After being inspired by the music of supertux, some of which is available with the original Rosegarden files, I downloaded it and got it running. It was quite a job. It turns out that it’s quite simple if you have … Continue reading →

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When Daddy comes driving home again

Posted on 15 June 2011 by stuff writer

I needed to sing something (the internet was down, thanks Telkom, for your speedy attention to this problem). I thought I’d sing “When Johnny comes marching home again”, but couldn’t remember the words. So this is what it came to:When … Continue reading →

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Silly songs with Audacity

Posted on 13 June 2011 by stuff writer

And now it’s time for silly songs with Audacity: that part of the show where Audacity comes out and plays, a silly song. So it turns out that if you have a high tolerance for background noise and a poor … Continue reading →

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