My choice of a cool tune for the last Friday of each month.

This month’s cool tune is “Hallelujah” – the Jeff Buckley version. This song saw a bit of a revival recently, partly due to Alexandra Burke’s X-Factor version/ Christmas number one. I think Jeff Buckley’s version of the original Leonard Cohen song will see revivals similar to this for years to come… it’s simply a timeless classic. Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs I think that I’ve ever heard. Certainly one of my top ten all-time favourites.

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This is my first week of self-employment. Friday was my last day in my permanent job and yes, I did choose to leave that safe pensionable job in the middle of the recession!

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I stumbled upon this discovery earlier today while reading “Video Game Design Between 1990-2008” on Webdesigner Depot. While there are numerous debates over what the first video game was, the answer depends largely on how you define “video games”. The first truly interactive video game was “Tennis for Two” and this was also one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

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