We leave it all behind
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under London, bother, rant
I twist and turn, but I know there’s only
one way out of this.
So if there’s anyone listening, press your ear to the radio
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I’ve been half watching the presidential style debates and before I go any further, no this isn’t going to be a long drawn post on politics. It’s just been rather pressing on my mind recently. How many voters watching this charade have actually read the manifestos of each party understanding the separate policies? Now how many are watching this charade making their mind up who to vote for on how “good looking” “articulate” “positive body language”. Then how many people actually even knew that Nick Clegg existed?
I believe we are heading into a dark period of politics, whether it be a hung parliament or the fact that out of the blue (with nothing short of a miracle) the Lib Dems somehow get their foot in. The inexperience of the Lib dems is scary and I know how they can completely cock up a town and destroy the community and livelihoods of the inhabitants. They even had the cheek to phone me up (how the hell did they get my number?) to ask who I’m voting for at the next election. Then I find out that it was a last minute calling to “prospective young voters” to convince them to turn up at a Cleggmania event to show support. They can get right royally stuffed.
Don’t get me started on how inaccurate the polls are to reality and the pathetic small sample groups they extract the information from. I think I’ve said enough on the matter.
I hope the cheery song is a contrast to this rather dire rant. Hopefully I’ll get a gig in sometime soon, I’ve applied for Tony Bennett tickets to the @itunesfestival . Although I’m tempted to see Damo Suzuki’s Experimental Music Festival @theluminaire , he’ll be around for 3 days and his youtube channel always seems to be a delight. Fingers crossed for the weather on Wednesday, be lucky.
Forces working
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under music, rant
There seems to be many forces working against me in getting an album review out. I spent half an hour tapping away to find that the draft didn’t bloomin’ save. I was finally getting somewhere and had the tracks lined up, but this has just set me back again.
I despair as I’m already finding it a struggle to get any words out and when I do they just get swept away. Add to that I haven’t had a chance to enjoy a gig this side of the year. Well I think I’ve lost the impetus or any sort of inspiration for the moment. Grumble.
Erasing tracks (scrobbles in this instance)
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under Gadgets, Summations, bother, music, rant
I deleted my last.fm (audioscrobbler) account after failing to see any reason to keep it. They’ve had years worth of tracking data since 05 from me when I last looked and I get little to nothing in return. The ads have become obtrusive (not as bad as YouTube which is an abomination now), the stats irrelevant and very little progress towards integration. I’m looking for something new, contiunally being an early adopter and seeing many music sites struggle and change their long term plan. We7 as a start up has gone through several iterations of its model, originally it worked, but now it has landed on a weak one this time around. Back to last.fm:
The stats side for me has been a major issue considering there are many types of things I listen to and it’s not all on one device. Let’s start with my iPhone, it’s great I use it everyday and play everything and anything on it. This is where the problem lies, since I bought into this ecosphere I now listen to an inordinate number of podcasts, it’s unbelievable and it’s as if I’m always trying to play catch up. Notably I’ve started dropping various subscriptions recently due to quibbles with personal preferences. Here’s the point, it really messes up my stats for audiscrobbles and I didn’t really want them to appear. It became more trouble than >> >> >> »
Tags: audio, audioscrobble, last.fm, music, podcasts, record, scrobble, track, vinyl
UI for Ignite Video page?
Posted by chichard41 | Filed under Ignite London, rant
Trying to work out which one of the 3 options I have chosen to display is best for displaying the Ignite London event. I want everyone to have an enjoyable viewing for all the videos. Personal preference would be the first as it’s nice and clean, however the Logo can only be found if you move slightly down the page. What’s your opinion, please leave a reply below? Once I’ve had some input I will make the page and videos live.
I would put more time into editing the videos to make them nice and fancy with an intro sequence and make a quick music intro track but applying for my Biomed jobs is somewhat taking precedence (yes unemployed). Who knows if I get some time later on I’ll do the fancy stuff and make it into a podcast for iTunes, Zune and other platforms. For now I hope you enjoy the videos when they become available in the next week or so.
Tags: Beer, BoxUK, First, Ginglik, Ignite, Ignite London, lecture, London, O'Reilly, presentation, speaker, video, Videos, Vimeo
