Friday, March 31, 2006

Orphaned Land

Orphaned Land - good band - mix of styles. Orphaned Land is a band from Israel who create a unique blend of metal and traditional Jewish music, thus creating a "new" metal sub-genere entitled Oriental metal.

Orphaned Land fuse doom\death metal as well as Jewish folk music and tradition. Although they have technical skill and determination, their music is not necessarily appealing to fans of the doom/death metal genre at large, as the eastern influence and.... (Read On)

Click the blue arrows to listen to Orphaned Land.

orphaned-land - ocean land
orphaned-land - mercy

mp3s linked from Radyo

Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Magnificents

are supporting Mogwai on sunday in Cardiff Coal Exchange. Electro-punk?????
LAST GASP OF REVENGE mp3 - THE MAGNIFICENTS
THE APOLLO CREED mp3 - THE MAGNIFICENTS
From the debut album THE MAGNIFICENTS.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Components of a steam locomotive

Click here to go to site. You can then hover your mouse and it will tell you what is what on this diagram of a steam engine.

Woodhams of Barry - the legendary steam scrapyard

Picture taken in 1968, when steam ended. Barry Scrapyard.
In the 1960's there were many steam engines rusting in Barry Scrapyard. A lot were later sent for preservation. More steam links on Penmorfa.com.
Read a full history of the place. Click here.
Via Rail Blue ( The first diesels).
Woodhams Search on Clusty.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Evolution Soft

"EvolutionSoft are the company responsible for creation of the Evolution MSAccess to VB.NET Converter. Using this great new tool, developers can reduce the time required to convert Forms and Code modules written using Microsoft Access into VB.NET code dramatically."Read on

Awesome........