I climbed on the back of a giant albatross Which flew through a crack in the cloud To a place where happiness reigned all year round Where music played ever so loudly Jim Capaldi, founder member of Traffic, died earlier today. One for Dadrock perhaps.
Ticket Prices
I’ve never seen U2 live. I’d like to see them. But no live concert (especially one in stadium) is worth £55. For that price I’d expect an all-day festival. When are music fans going to say “enough is enough” and stop paying such ridiculous prices for concert tickets?
Bad Memory
Watching Them : Watching Us is on top form today, pointing out the ironies in today’s Daily Mail front page. We’ll never forget this.
New BBC Streams Article
Today’s Guardian has an article about the relaunched BBC Radio Player. It also mentions their experiment last year when they made editions of In Our Time available as MP3s.
Tada List
As part of my eternal struggle to organise my life, I’ve started building lists at Tada Lists. I’ve even made some of them public. (Oh, bit of an inconvenient little bug in the system. I originally linked to my public lists at http://davorg.tadalists.com/lists/public/, but it seems that the site doesn’t like the existance of that… Continue reading Tada List
Small World
An interesting example of how the internet is shrinking the world. The photographer who took a photo of a photographer
Taming Archive Lists
One slight irritation with Movable Type is that when you’ve been running a blog for some time, the list of monthly archives that (by default) appears on the index page can get a bit long and take up too much space. So I’ve written a bit of Javascript that addresses that problem. I’ll package it… Continue reading Taming Archive Lists
Unsynchronicity
It is, of course, gratifying that whenever a senior Perl development contract comes on the market in London I get calls from what seems to be most of the recruitment agencies in the UK. It would just be nice if for once it happened when I was actually looking for work.
New BBC Streams
Simon points out this press release from the BBC. It seems they are going to make a lot more of their radio output available through an improved version of their Radio Player application. I’ll be taking a look as soon as I can to see if and how this effects my BBC streams page. Expect… Continue reading New BBC Streams
Movable Type Upgrade (again)
(Apologies for all the MT-related posts. We’ll get back to our usual bollocks soon I promise.) There’s a problem with the Movable Type email code which allows unscrupulous people to potentially send emails to anyone they like and leave the blame firmly at your doorstep. Everyone running a Movable Type installation should upgrade to version… Continue reading Movable Type Upgrade (again)