From Tom McRae‘s weblog. Without a doubt my favourite ’wintertime’ artist (his songs don’t seem quite right in summer). For a man who writes such dark lyrics, he has a black but quite hilarious sense of humour. Since he’s not got a new album out yet (though he is touring this autumn), I figured I’d offer him some promotion based on his humour talents instead.
I’ve spent 4 days reinstalling my system. Only now, after much swapping of PCI cards, hardware conflicts, crackling sound and the eventual (and unwilling) disabling of my RAID controller do I have a system that resembles stable.
Well, I finally started using my Gmail account. It took a while as I’m a long term lover of standalone email apps. I’ve used Outlook mostly but gave Mozilla’s Thunderbird a run out for a couple of weeks.
On mentioning my current habit of writing NME bashing song lyrics, Sarah just recited me this poem.
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… into the month of October and I’ve blogged something on 4 of those days. Sure this is some kind of important record? Heck, the two I missed were only void due to me leaving the house to have a real life. Now if only I had something useful to say.
Somewhere in the cosmos, someone has it in for me.
Apologies to those few who try to read this blog regularly. The site has been down for a few days while my ever-helpful host (NeatHosting) tried to handle my site being spammed for all corners of the globe.
Being the geek that I am, I’ve been updating to the latest Firefox nightly every few days. Along with being able to enjoy the evolving fruits of Kevin Gerich’s Winstripe theme, I also get to prod at the new features.
I had my first weekend in Manchester for about 4 months last week. It’s been wonderful to be honest. I love the city, and seeing my housemates from the past two years was really, really nice. I know a lot of students spread themselves around and live with different sets of people in each of their years, but I’ve been lucky with the people I met and lived with Ack, Ric, Mike, Sean and Gary for two.
Visiting again was strange, in that I fitted straight in again, as if I’d never been away. I guess the saying is true: You don’t realise what you’ve got until it’s 300 miles away and you go visit. Or maybe I made that saying up. Regardless, it’s true though.
I’ve been slowly working through my iTunes music library adding album art to my MP3s this week. (Aside: damn them and their rather-too-soon-for-my-liking Colour Screen iPods). While Amazon generally provides good quality album art at an optimal size of 300x300 px I’ve hit situations where album art simply does not exist. Tonight was Radiohead night, revealing problems with live shows and bootleg albums which (unsurprisingly) Amazon do not stock.