my friends' blogs
- Richard Thomas — 4 new (old) songs!
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- Hi friends, I've recently added four new songs to my page, relatively old for me but new for this site: Two more or less spontaneous instrumental improvisations (category: humor) and two songs, 'Bushmensong' and 'Mystery to Me'. The latter being based on an improvisation of words, guitar and Groove Agent. The lyrics seemed meaningless at first but in retrospect they reveal some meaning, at least to me. Song art will follow… I hope you like them. read more...
- aeronaut — Relics
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- I am finally working on my Relics pieces again. This will become a rather large piece of instrumental music. I have uploaded part III en VI in my player. More pieces will follow... Hope you'll enjoy it. Jef read more...
- Mindmovie — New song added: Theme for An Imaginary Mindmovie
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- This will be the opening title of my upcoming first solo album. If you find some time please take a listen and if you want to feel free to leave me a comment. Audio quality is below my normal standard as the song is 8 minutes long I had to go down with the bitrate to 160kb. Anyway I hope you may enjoy. read more...
- Mindmovie — New Song added - Moonmaiden
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- A rough mix of one of the songs which will be on Mindmovie's first solo record - your feedback is most welcome read more...
- aeronaut — Mit dem Wind - adaptation by Mindmovie featuring Sara England
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Description: For my international "On the wind" project on myspace, I asked several people to write a version in their own language and style for my song. Mindmovie is the first to come up with a beautiful german version called "Mit dem Wind". The german speaking people will notice that is freely translated lyrics are really beautiful and at the same time true to the original. The music is, as we are used from him impeccable. Sara England's emotional singing goes straight to the heart. Amazing work by 2 great artists here on mi7.
Mit dem Wind Mit dem Wind
Ziehst du davon
gehst dahin im Flammenmeer
Feuer brennt so lodernd heiß
und mein Herz, gefriert zu Eis
Du bist fort
in eine andr’e Welt
Und dein letzter Gruß
verweht am Himmelszelt
Nie wusste ich das Morgenlicht
So kalt mir in die Seele sticht
Ich laufe weg
verberge mich
was immer ich auch tu
vergessen kann ich nicht
Die Zeit mit Dir hier Jahr um Jahr
All Dein Trost wenn ich mal traurig war
Auf dem Wind
und außer Sicht
Dein letzter Flug
In’s helle Licht
Das Feuer brennt ich bin allein,
doch am Ende werd’ ich bei Dir sein
Feuer brennt so lodernd heiß
und mein Herz, gefriert zu Eis
Bin alleine...
© 2007 Jef De Corte / Aeronaut ( “On the wind” - english lyrics)
© 2008 Achim Wierschem / Mindmovie (german adaptation) read more... - Mindmovie — New Song added - House Of Love
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Although This side is now soooo painfully slow that it is no longer a real funny thing to upload something - here is a new song. Welcome to any visitor who wants to leave a comment about the music. This title features Sara England on vocals - she as well as myself have discovered what it means when you a re trying to build a "house of love" with the wrong person. That's what this song is about.
read more... - Mindmovie — Planet Passion IV
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- A collaboration with Andres Rexach a guitar magician from Spain. Check his profile on myspace this man is a guitar and sitar monster. read more...
- rodney — computing humor
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Quotes of the day:
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. ...The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
Now you're thinking "oh God, another Linux zealot going off about Windows"... until you see who wrote it: Bill Gates. Full story at Gizmodo Note: this is actually an old story about Windows XP. Vista, as we all know by now, is even worse. read more... - rodney — Symbian is Free Software
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- News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now more widely used than proprietary software. That's a pretty significant shift in the way of things, especially considering Symbian own 67% of the smartphone market, with Windows Mobile holding only 13%... read more...
- rodney — Real World stuff
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- Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: I've been spending some time recently talking with The Cedars, winners of the MI7 Real World contest. Looks like the plan is for me to produce the session at Real World Studios sometime next month, if all goes well. I'm very much looking forward to it, they are a great band, and I think we could create some damn fine tracks there. Let's see... read more...
- rodney — back from being a hermit
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I haven't been posting much in the past couple of months, mainly because I've been taking time to work on a new book and get some personal business stuff out of the way.
Things are looking interesting though... we've been approached about a new record deal, and asked to play some more festivals at the end of the year / beginning of next year. So the plan is to spend as much time as possible in the studio over the next few months and finally finish off all of the things that have been sitting on the hard drive for ages in a half-finished state.
So someday soon I might even get round to putting some new songs on the music player! :-)
read more... - rodney — looking for the mouse
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- Very possibly the best article ever written about blogging, MMOs, and the participatory culture of the Internet: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus read more...
- rodney — April is the cruellest month
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Well, April is nearly over now, and I can't wait to see the back of it. It's been a horrible month. My home office got burgled twice - and the second time while I was still at home! I lost a ton of my gear, computers, phones, passport, credit cards etc.
Luckily all my data was backed up and I'm slowly getting back to normal, but it's taken some time. So if you've been trying to get hold of me and didn't get an answer, now you know why...
read more... - Mindmovie — new Song added "Aurora 2008"
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- "Aurora" is a song dedicated to the power of the sun Actually composed in the 70's and reworked on the first sunny sunday I had within 2008. Still in rough mix mode read more...
- flamingbess — Flaming Bess airplay at UR Rock - N O W - at 20:00
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follow the link and click on UR Rock Stream
http://www.ur-radio.de/portal.php
one hour interview and songs of our new record Waechter des Lichts starting in 25 minutes
read more... - flamingbess — Flaming Bess airplay at UR Radio next Saturday 20:00
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here is link to listen to a one hour special about the new CD incl. Bandinterview
http://www.ur-radio.de/portal.php
Specials Flaming Bess : Wächter des Lichts
don't miss it
read more... - rodney — back in the studio
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Been up in Manchester at the studio last couple of days, and it's been fun so far. Managed to recreate the lost backing track of a fabulous Cassandra Complex song that we've never been able to play live before, so I think we'll be premiering that at the Bath gig on Friday. Also I think we may have finalised work on a cover song that we'll be playing there too. So far everything sounds fantastic... let's see what the gig itself brings...
read more... - rodney — linux starting to hit the mainstream
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Seems like the market for low-cost Linux-based laptops is just a teeny bit bigger than was previously thought:
Since its launch in October 2007, Eee PCs have shipped more than 1 million units, as of the end of March, and Asustek is optimistic that it will reach its goal of shipping 5 million units of the low-cost notebooks in 2008, the sources said.
That's pretty staggering. I think the discussion of "Is Linux ready for the average user?" is pretty much over now. It's still not trivial to install Linux on machines that weren't originally designed for it, but actually using it is not an issue any more in the great majority of cases. read more... - rodney — The Cassandra Complex in Bath
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For any UK members in the South West, we're playing in Bath next Friday...
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- rodney — the robots are on the way...
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I think we just took another step closer to SkyNet:
Open source 3D printer copies itself
Seriously though, this is really quite remarkable.
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