Monthly Archives: February 2009

The last days of Jibbering 4

Click to play play_blip_movie_1783019(); Today, I went to Jibbering Records in Moseley for probably the last time. They close in a week – but I’m off to NZ on Monday evening, and unless I get a chance to pop in during the day on Monday for one final cafetiere and a browse through the Funk [...]

It's been snowing, you know 1

The New Zealand solution 8

That’s Caitlin Smith. We’re coming to each other’s rescue. I need to get to New Zealand, and she needs help with her new album. Her last album was gorgeous – her jazz roots were plainly there – but all the same, these were contemporary, strong and accessible popular songs. Really great record with some of [...]

Trip to New Zealand – perhaps 6

I’ve been trying to find a way to get over to New Zealand in the next few months. I’ve been asked to present a radio documentary about Zane Lowe, and I need to sit down with some people back in New Zealand with a tape recorder rolling. Of course, there’s no budget, and so I [...]

Elbow 5

No idea if you’ll be able to watch this outside the UK. And I know for a fact that you won’t be able to watch it after 10pm on the 7th of Feb. But it’s still awesome.

Hypersync – part 3 1

The final piece of the puzzle for me is file synchronisation. Now, by that I don’t meant that I want all of the files on one machine to be available on every other. I have hundreds of gigabytes of data – most of it music. But I do have two issues I’d like solved: 1) [...]

Hypersync – part 2 1

So… the challenge is to work across multiple machines, keep everything identical (contacts, appointments, email, task lists) in all environments, given that I’m not the only person adding data into the system, and not the only person that needs to be able to see where I’m going to be and what I’m going to be [...]