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End of Summer

According to the US anyway. That’s why we had an excellent day’s weather yesterday, and it’s looking the same today.

This is really just an excuse to promote TimeOK’s fab End of Summer mix that was on di.fm yesterday evening. A weekend that also involved a few bottles of Hoegaarden, Juliet, some plinky plonky from Sarah Slean (who is sounding more like Muse with every release, except she can’t resist going all theatrical in places), plinky plonky and twang from Emm Gryner, some cricket, some work, doxygen now has a MacOS X GUI, Spiderman 2, which was rather good, Resident Evil – Apocalypse, which wasn’t, except, ironically the set-up for the third installment. And I put a painting up and dropped loads of unwanteds into my garage.

Received my copy of The Great Lakes CD today in the post, with absolutely everything done by Emm. Mmmm.. Number 30. She should get herself a decent printer however.

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Vexing vista

What is it with the new Windows Vista ‘Save As’ window – apparently similar organisational gaffs appear elsewhere when you’re browsing files.

  • Where’s the separation between the folders on the left and the content on the right?
  • Why do the sort criteria live at the top in such an awful arrangement?
  • Where can you change the view? Or is it that stupid little keypad thing at the bottom left? And if it is, why is it there?
  • Why does sorting by ‘Name’ not actually sort by Name?
  • Why is it not obvious that you can change the Meta data for the file until you click on the field you want to change?
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Shiny and blue

Pitchfork have finally got around to reviewing my most disliked album of the moment.

(Okay, my second-most disliked album of the moment. My most disliked album of the moment happens to be one from my most disliked artists who try to sound like everyone else and end up sounding so dreary and oh, gosh, there’s that melody that goes plink, plink up and down the piano, just like the vocals, and even worse all of their songs are like it. Actually, if you’ve heard Fix You, you’ll realise I’m right. 100%. All of the damn time.)

Sorry. Deep breath.

This time, I’m writing about Supernature by Goldfrapp. This is the kind of album where the iTunes 30 second samples demonstrate all you need to know about this album. No song goes anywhere. Take the single Ooh La La, for example. Now, I’ve heard the single, and everything stays the same the whole way through. Even the chorus (I guess you can call it that) stays in the same mode, the same mood, as the rest of the song. There’s no highs, no lows, no changes in chords. It’s electro-chug, stuck with some hideous 70s fixation.

Everyone should just go and listen to Miss Kittin instead.

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Spamcop is useless

There, I’ve said it. Sure, I have around 10,000 held spam mails, which is great. But spammers are becoming more sneaky with their spams, which mean they are becoming virtually indistinguishable from authentic e-mails. So over the past two days I’ve received 487 spam e-mails that got through Spamcop.

So why is Spamcop useless? Because Apple Mail, with my own filtering picked up all 487 as spam, and not one false positive. Now, can I have Apple Mail on my mail server please?

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