Archive for October, 2005

Jazzy fun

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

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 [...]

End of the first real week

Friday, October 21st, 2005

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 [...]

Not long to wait…

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

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 [...]

Hoping for “…and another thing”

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

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. [...]

Slightly scary

Friday, October 7th, 2005

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 [...]

No Reason

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

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 [...]

G&S: the Ring-Wraiths?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

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 [...]

1814 overture

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

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. [...]

Welcome!

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

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 [...]