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Friday 1st August 2008

...and things

Not much of a coherent theme this time, I'm afraid, just a few updates and acknowledgements; first of all, thanks to all those of you who offered suggestions on the whole retrieving-MIDI-files-from-Garage-Band thing; not really had time to try any of them out yet.  I may just suck it up and get Logic.  Conflicted as to whether to go with Express or Pro.  Any thoughts, anyone?  Is Pro so much better as to be worth three times as much money?  And can you in fact open GB projects with Logic, as I'm assured you can but as no spec I can find online for Logic actually specifies?  Can any of you follow the syntax in that last sentence?

Anyhow, I might put off any software purchases for a bit as money's going to be rather tight for the immediate future; it looks like the sale of the flat is going ahead (hooray) but such is the state of the market that selling it is acutally going to cost us money.  We're getting off the property ladder for a while as it's not a ladder anymore; it's a property snake.

Fun Now Show recording today; Brigstocke is off again (probably skiing or being on the telly or skiing on the telly or something) so we've got Robin Ince in, giving one of his breathless stream of consciousness rants which you can never quite believe will cut down into decent radio but somehow always do.  This one is on the subject of why he isn't doing the Edinburgh Fringe this year; this is quite an unusual situation for Robin, he's far more dilligent in his Edinburghering than I am.  He seems to be adjusting but it's always hard to tell with Robin.

After the show I repaired to what I now discover was a completely different pub to the one the rest of the cast were meeting in (thanks, guys) but that's okay as Rob the webgenius & his better half Nat were with me and it was them I really wanted to talk to.  

Rob is just finishing work on a major addition to this very site... can I be arsed being enigmatic?  Oh sod it, I may as well tell you.  I'll do a proper announcement on the news page when I know what date it's going online, but at some point in the next couple of weeks I'm opening up my own download store.  All the commercially available stuff will be up there (the albums, the singles etc.) PLUS a whole load of tracks which thus far haven't been (Now Show stuff, demos, rarities, whatever).  I'm quite excited about it and I hope you are too now.

There you go then, an actually quite major scoop in the middle of a rather vague blog entry.  Here's where we find out who's REALLY been paying attention. 

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