Issued at 9:56 PM
The
eagle eyed amongst
you will have noticed a case of the slightly shrinking logos and movement of the archive/current links and the praetor and other logos - yeah just a tweak to the old site tonight. I find it looks a bit nicer on my monitor at home [1024xwhatever resolution] giving a touch more white space [well #395F85 space really :) - what a nerd].
Well the sickness lasted until Wednesday so two days of work this week - still a bit sniffly - not sure what it was, just head aches and joint aches and feeling run down. A few things on my mind at the moment - although I am enjoying the break I am also thinking about what to do next, including my job.
Long service leave becomes available next year in July [July 9th I think is the exact date] and there is talk of a group from Church doing a short term mission to Africa for 3 weeks in August with a week or so after as maybe a holiday time somewhere. Nice timing in some ways. I am also thinking about whether I want to stay in teaching beyond the end of next year - the nice thing about the Department is that I can have a year LWOP and still be owed a spot back at
Westfields [the website has nothing to do with me] - so I can have a year trying to set up something else and if it seems to be heading nowhere drop back into Westfields. Not sure where God wants me to go - not sure if he has any real plans other than trying to live like Jesus no matter where I am - sometimes it's easy, sometimes it is hard.
Tomorrow I am planning to attend the Tooney Cricket teams at play - now for those who know me, yes it is a stupid stupid game and watching it is even worse!!! However I will only go if they are batting, and it then becomes a great place to hang with me mates from church. So if the weather is fine and they are batting [or oneday] then I will head off. [
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Issued at 6:07 PM
Halo 2 Announcement Trailer - sweet :)
A list of mirrors for QT and WMP and MPEG/2 that will keep everyone happy :) [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]
Issued at 6:24 PM
Praetor responded with a shareware music site - well it turned out to be the rollingstone.com website - which I would say isn't quite what I had in mind. But as I dug around a bit I followed link to unsigned artists which took me to mp3.com - which of course is the kagi of the music shareware world.
To me sharware music is about bands creating music and selling it directly to the people - bypassing the major labels and distribution channls - which is how I see sharware software working. MP3.com seems to offer a similar oppurtunity to bands. And I guess just as shareware software is a much smaller market [is it???] then shareware music will be the same, and I guess in the end if a shareware band does well it will be gobbled up by a major label - but I dunno - seems like there must be a few differences between musicans and software makin' geeks - oh yeah :) [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]
Issued at 9:44 PM
Now you can find out how a website
sounds. Interesting, though the sites all sound similar, but I like the idea that within all things ethereal, sonic realities lie. Have a listen. [
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Issued at 2:32 PM
:( Sick :( Started last night with headaches, joint pains the whole deal, had very broken sleep and called in sick this morning. Slept from 8am to 2pm. Feeling a bit better now, but still sore. I hate being sick. [
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Issued at 12:37 AM
:) Something Funny :) Here is an
idea that I am sure Praetor will be trying out. [
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Issued at 12:02 AM
Well I think this sums up some of my
feelings about p2p file sharing of copyright songs. A
MacHall [MA15+] comic.
And as for bypassing the mainstream distributors - I have just had a thought, how come some people can make money out of shareware but there doesn't seem to be a similar thing happening with music - like where is the the music version of Ambrosia software?
But then a lot of shareware is niche stuff. I dunno. Actually if anyone has any intelligent comments then comment in the questbook or email me [that big E on the top right will help you, as will the word comment which follows shortly after this...] especially if you know of someone selling shareware type music on the net. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]