Crazy ideas for the holidays:
* I've thought about posting photos to this blog for ages but it just doesn't fit my mindset. This is for text. Adding images here is annoying. I'm thinking a really simple seperate blog for posts of one of more images with some text. I doubt I'll database it at all and most likely won't have a web interface either. FTP and notepad all the way. I'll never be posting images away from home.... Actually, I'll probably write it in ASP and mySQL but generate HTML to upload. That might be easier, especially given I want to play with RSS.
Some of this stuff is just time wasting stuff and I don't want to waste my time. I expect the last couple of weeks to be solid guitar playing. We're recording drum tracks on the 16th August and I'll have maybe 10 tracks to do guitars to after that, and a couple of days importing WAVs to our software too and syncing stuff up.
I want to read Dave's blog but he's going on about Tuesday's Buffy and I havn't seen it yet, I taped Rove damn it. Why do I keep thinking Buffy is on Channel 10? Borrowing tape off Heath this arvo. I knew there was a reason to get that boy into the slayah.
Last day at work today for a month. Predictably there is little to do. Interesting things with the RIAA at the moment. I think finally it's all starting to hit the fan good and proper. It'll all be solidified into either everyone going to jail or new laws soonish.
Nice to see ARIA (Australia's RIAA sort of) have no plans to sue anyone on P2P and no plans for CDr tax. Their comment on the CDr tax was that it wouldn't be enough money, that is, they're assuming if they put a tax like that on a CDr it legitimises pirating CDs (because you're paying a tax assuming you're going to do it) and that the amount in the tax wouldn't be enough. I like ARIA. They THINK about things it seems.
I want this and this. What I'd really like to see is a Making Of the Immitation of Life video.
Although it's interesting to see ARIA's comment that the P2P problem isn't having as big effect here in Australia as it is in the US. Derr.
New Sony PSP portable device [The Register]. Sounds extremely cool actually. Put a decent screen on this thing (like 1000dpi, they don't exist) and we're getting closer to my dream device. I believe this thing has no hard-disk though. It's made me think just how cool a platform scroller (Mario Bros etc.) would be in widescreen. And... it depends what it costs. A lot I'm likely to believe.
My copy of the crazy splatter (in the actual sense) movie Final Destination 2 arrived a few days ago and I discovered to my annoyance what "Infinifilm" version means. It's branding for extras packages. A standard for accessing your extras. Any "infinifilm" DVD will include a "watch Infinifilm" version option which will include pop-ups at points throughout the movie where you can press a button and watch a relevant deleted scene or "behind the scenes" segment. When the extra is finished, you're dropped back to the movie where you left off. It sounds cool, but the branding element just makes me feel like they think I'm really really stupid.
Thankfully you can get to the extras in the usual way, however it takes a few more button presses.
Watching a Powerpuff Girls episode with Mojo Jojo commentating is as amusing as you'd think (amusement factor may fluctuate depending on the reader).