I’m going to be accompanying another of my piano teacher’s pupils for her clarinet diploma in December, with a concert in November as a sort of practice run for the recital. Went to have a play-through of the pieces this evening. The pieces are very nice; I especially enjoyed Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina, the [...]

At times it’s been immensely frustrating, due to knowing so little about the right way to prepare a test pack, or how to copy tables, and other stuff. But people have been very helpful, and today we had a session on a couple of the main utilities for working with DB2 tables, which was [...]

Apple announced another press event for this Wednesday, mentioning something about their pro range of products. This can only mean PowerMac updates at last! :) Saw Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit yesterday with Emma and Paul. Was good fun, but unfortunate that circumstances had forced me into going to [...]

Apple’s “one more thing…” gave us iTunes 6 (hot on the heels of iTunes 5), video-playing iPods, iTMS selling videos (what kind of quality, I wonder?) and a thinner iMac with “Front Row”, a remote control, built-in iSight and no modem. I’m disappointed. Partly because I don’t see the point of video on an iPod. [...]

I told Ian (my “sponsor”, to whom I’m supposed to go for help in the first instance) that I didn’t really have anything to do today. He said he’d try to think of something useful, and came back a little while later asking me to write a program that would be used in the [...]

I bought the M-Audio 1814 on Wednesday. Had a bit of a play with it that evening, but was a bit puzzled by the lack of driver CD in the box. Wasn’t a problem—I just downloaded the drivers and manual—but odd all the same. No CD with Reason Adapted (cut-down version of [...]

Reading Tom Holt’s The Portable Door, I came across this wonderful line (emphasis mine): Married sisters in Broitwich and unreliable cousins made much more sense in the cold light of morning than Gilbert and Sullivan bearing down on him like a brace of Nazgul. Intriguing news items on the Mac rss feeds this morning: Apple [...]

For the past week I’ve been trying to buy the M-Audio FireWire 1814 from Turnkey, but it has eluded me so far. Last Tuesday I was told that they didn’t have any in stock, but they were getting new stock on Wednesday. On Wednesday it hadn’t arrived, so I should try on Thursday. [...]

I have given up resisting. It was only a matter of time, after all. I have a domain and webhosting, but a poor excuse for a website. Why? I’ve got nothing worthwhile to put on a website, that’s why. Solution: demonstrate fully how unimaginative I am by setting up a [...]