Monthly Archives: December 2004

Most of my Christmases came at once

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Yesterday our solution to the iMac’s storage problem arrived: a 120GB Maxtor hard drive with 8MB cache. Yum. Now I just have to work out how to migrate the data from old to new…

Today my new mobile phone arrived. It’s a Sony Ericsson T630, which I’ve got with (effectively) free line rental for the first 12 months of an 18 month contract. I only wanted it for the Bluetooth facility, so that I can sync with the iMac, but I get to take part in the camera-phone/MMS revolution as well! It should make my Palm redundant, as this phone (unlike the T68) has a full address book facility, rather than just phone numbers and email addresses as, even though this phone doesn’t have postal address support per se, it’s possible to munge it, apparently.

I was watching an Apple Powerbook 15” (550MHz with combo drive) on Ebay, that eventually went for £320. We couldn’t afford it right now (despite the Christmas bonus) but it bodes well for the state of the second-hand Mac market, which until quite recently was overpriced.

But the biggest Christmas present of all (so far) was hearing our baby’s heartbeat at the clinic last Friday! It brought a tear to Kathy’s eye, and put a massive grin on my face. Life changes for ever next June…

Slightly Successful DJing

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Along with Jez, I DJd at St. Philip and St. James’ Christmas Party last night. ‘Twas a good laugh, especially the cheese/80s mix I finished off with. I had the incredible foresight to record most of it with my Archos, so if you have a nice fat internet pipe, feel free to download it (29.3 MB mp3 file). It’s the proverbial curate’s egg, as the foldback wasn’t great (yeah – I know: “Poor Workman Blames Tool” shocker), and the EQ and levels aren’t great, but it might provide some aural joy; you never know.

Tracklist

  1. Lou Bega – Mambo No. 5
  2. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go
  3. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
  4. Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Lately?
  5. M.A.R.R.S. – Pump Up The Volume
  6. Betty Boo – Doin’ The Do
  7. Mel and Kim – Respectable
  8. Kylie Minogue – I Should Be So Lucky
  9. Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?

A change is as good as a rest

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Eiffel Tower To anyone who reads my blog regularly, welcome back. Yes – it looks rather different to normal. I’ve just installed Textpattern as my blogging tool du jour. The Movable Type blog is still there, but redirects to this one; I’ll be removing it just as it soon as I get the images etc moved across.

Why did I do this? Well, Movable Type’s licensing isn’t as great as it used to be (I would have benefited from multiple authors during our trip ), I fancied a new challenge, and I like the opportunity to have a blank canvas, design-wise, to make this site look like it’s been designed. The fact that the comments can auto-close after a period of time will also help in the fight against comment spam, which only has to be a good thing.

About Tim

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Born and raised in Hampshire, UK; Husband to Kathy; Christian; member (and currently treasurer) of St. Stephen’s Church (Anglican), Lansdown, Bath; Southampton FC supporter; one-time drummer with New Generation Music and Mission’s band Rhythmworks; travelled in said band to Belgium, France, Germany and Spain; holder of a BSc(Hons) in Industrial Design from Brunel University ; Shipton Bellinger County Primary School Disco Breakdance Competition winner, 1985; hobbyist DJ – available for weddings &c &c; owner of two Technics SL-1210s and a Gemini mixer; big fan of music of various types: drum and bass, house, garage, hip-hop, IDM, jazz, classical, rock; self-taught guitarist – only a strummer though; Linux user (at work), Mac user (at home); computer geek/freak and family technical support; ColdFusion/Perl developer and Web Standards zealot at Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK;

Harry Redknapp? So soon?

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So it turns out that the BBC are reporting that Harry Redknapp is to be unveiled (though not literally, one hopes) as Southampton’s third manager of the season. The club website says that "rumours are rife" but isn’t denying anything as far as I can tell, so the St. Mary’s Revolving Door™ looks set to be back in full effect today. I suppose it’s good timing, with the transfer window about to open in January, but this is going to help the Saints/Pompey rivalry not one jot.

Is there an echo in here?

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Sorry it’s been a bit quiet around these parts lately. I’ve been spending my lunch breaks over at Digital Spy Forums and at various other times participating in the Podcasting revolution (!). While I haven’t been doing that, Kathy & I have been telling everyone who’ll listen that we’ll be having a baby next year! W00t! ‘Bump’ was all planned and everything, and occurred on our tour, but we’re not going in for Beckham-style location-based naming. I hear a collective sigh of relief…

In other news:
* Andy needs root canal work, and needs our prayers, big style.
* My Big Bro turned 40 at the weekend, and had a party at his house. He convened his jazz combo (him on guitar, plus other peeps on keys, trumpet and bass). An enjoyable time was had by all.
* I’ve done my first bit of recording with my Archos Jukebox. Nothing fancy: just Cinematic Orchestra’s Motion album.
* I’ve found someone else who’s upgrading an iMac G3. The Christmas bonus means that I have more chance of Kathy aquiescing to my request to buy a new hard drive. 7GB is not enough, I tell you!

That’s all, folks! See you in the, erm, "podcastosphere". Maybe now I can easily record straight to MP3, I’ll do a DJ mix podcast and get in there myself.