Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn - 5/5

Instrumental rock - take a listen if you're a fan of 'Godspeedyoublackemperor' or 'Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Shall Live Forever'.

Sigur Ros - Takk - 5/5

Ethereal largely instrumental (with occassional unintelligeble vocals) post-rock from Iceland. Their latest album is almost 'pop'.

Arcade Fire - Funeral - 3/5

Bought on the basis of seeing them perform on 'Later with Jools Holland' - pretty good but not as good as some of the reviews would make out.

Pelican - Australasia - 4/5

Metal for 'Mogwai' fans.

Sleater Kinney - The Woods - 3/5

Bought on the strength of several reviews - turns out their sound has morphed into a cross between the 'White Stripes' and 'Jon Spencer Blues Explosion' - I preferred their earlier quirky-pop sound from 'Dig Me Out'.

Arcwelder - Pull - 4/5

Like a cross between 'Stereolab' and 'Husker Du' - driving repetitive alt-rock.

Don Cabellero - Don Cabellero 2 - 4/5

Instrumental math-rock. Probably their best album.

Jesu - Jesu - 5/5

The new more sombre 'Godflesh' - less rock more drone, less anger more resignation.

Dinosaur Jr - Ear Bleeding Country - 5/5

Excellent compilation of Dino Jnr material from their 'You're Living All Over Me' start right up to the last album before J Mascis went solo. As usual the earlier stuff is best - I think they started to turn just after 'Where You Been' IMHO.

Godspeedyoublackemperor - Yanqui UXO 4/5

Not as good as their earlier albums but certainly a worthy release with super-tight Steve Albini enhanced production.

A new breed of application - AjaxWrite Launched. From the founder of Linspire. They will endevour to release a new (and free) web/ajax application every few weels to replace bloated Microsoft Office applications. Only works in Firefox 1.5 or above.

Apple should make this easier - OSX Network Domain for sharing files on a network.

Two articles on transitioning from one architecture to another - Adobe Engineer comments on the difficulty of porting to Intel OSX and a Microsoft Engineer follows up with his comments on the difficulty of porting to Intel OSX. The first article also has a comment buried in there from an Apple engineer too.

Named after a type of biscuit - Drost Effect.

Some of these are brilliant - Optical Illusions Blog.

Handy Howto - High availability NFS.

The market wants to know what happens to Apple after Steve Jobs ?

Hopefully this will bring some performance improvements as well as new bells & whistles - Firefox 2 Features.

Rumour - Leopard to include virtualisation ?

People write about the strangest things - UK Conservative MP laments the demise of the Marmite Bottle. Related links - Wikipedia - Marmite, Vegemite.

ArsTechnica looks back at Five Years of OS X.

The excellent GUI Guidebook gets its own domain and thousands of new images and a few new articles. They've also added an rss feed.