my friends' blogs
- 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...
- 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...
- Tom Pedroli — Benjamin
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Today at 12.00 hrs my (our) son was born. We named him Benjamin. The Clair the Lune remix was specially written for this child (as a modern lullaby).
All is well and we are all very happy. 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... - Live Ullmann — New website
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Check out www.liveullmann.com
read more... - Live Ullmann — New album coming up soon
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- Please have a taste. 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...
- 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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- Tom Pedroli — East Sussex UK
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I had to go to the UK for a few days. My wife accompanied me this time as she practicaly runs the day to day business. We stay in a beautifull hotel in Buxted East Sussex (Park Hotel). The nature is great and we made some long walks thanks to the good weather conditions. I've been to the UK several times, always by car because of my unjustified fear of flying.
All business is done and a nice colaboration is beeing set up for the near future. Kind of washes away the bad taste of my earlier business problems with my stealing office manager.
I (and my wife) in particular look forward to meeting Mike (Mich56341) on Saturday. Rene and I remixed his Dancing Pidgeon, and Mike added his vocals on our Follow the Bass.
With Mindmovie, who visited us with his wife in the Netherlands last year, we were one of the first to join the MI7 community.
It promisses to be a very good spent Saturday afternoon filled with music, friendship and talk about life in general.
read more... - 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.
read more... - rodney — Climate target is not radical enough - study
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Nasa scientist warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions
One of the world's leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem.
In a startling reappraisal of the threat, James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, calls for a sharp reduction in C02 limits.
More at The Guardian. It's pretty scary.
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