The *best* net radio station in the world! H O B E R Thinking Radio, theoretically it's a folk station, but the range of music is everything from Cuban to bluegrass to Ravi Shankar to Philip Glass and stuff off at angles from there ... blues, folk, gentle jazz, world music and interesting modern classical, and wonderfully all strung together. Tell them I sent you (they won't know who I am, but if enough people show up, maybe they'll find out!)

The reason that I decided to take the plunge and start a weblog was down to a very good friend of mine, Steve Glover, who has his own (rarely updated) weblog called OutSider

And now my Daily List, things that I check every day:

• News from the BBC
  
• Scan's Today Only, cheap computer bits page
  
• The Register - biting the hands that feed IT
  
• SlashDot - News for Nerds, stuff that matters
  
• JapanToday - what's happening on the other side of the planet
  
• Osho Zen Tarot
  

This is the first day of The Magician's Blog. I've been reading other people's blogs and thought it was about time to put up the things that I've found or been pointed to ... a lot of the stuff that I like I've found either by personal recommendation, through a few major sites (TheRegister, SlashDot, NeedToKnow, BBC News) or through pseudo-random websurfing (type in a search term, then follow the links that don't seem to make sense!)
The first thing that I'll link to is one of my home sites SMOF.COM