I’m also about to start flat hunting soon. Sooner than I expected to have to start but oh well…. Hopefully I’ll find somewhere nice. The current flat I’m in is ok but it has a few minor annoyances.

Anyhow, I’ll stop wittering on now. TTFN

At the moment our office is filled with large cabinets full of disk drives and more importantly fans – mainly thanks to the software boys. This means everywhere I go I’m surrounded by a constant background noise of bloody fans whirring. To drown this out I sometimes listen to music while I work.

Thanks to Magnatune I have access to some very good music for free.

My current favourites are Drop Trio (funky organ jazz), John Williams (mellow jazz/blues guitar – but only the Dusty Porch album, the Long ride home tracks are a bit more jazzy and not quite to my taste). Beat Under Control (“electrofunk”) and Mr Gelatine (electronica) are also quite good too.

The thing is that there are loads of artist and because you can download the mp3s for free you get to sample albums before you decide whether you like it. One can of course buy the album if you want better quality (by downloading higher bit rate files or being sent a CD) – atleast you know you like the music before you pay anything.

I’m slowly continuing my search so if anyone finds anything good let me know.

Firstly: “The Darkness (supported by Ash)”. Why? For a start I believe (and I’m sure I’ll get flamed for saying this) that the Darkness are a short-term novelty act. Much like Electric Six but without the good tunes. Ash are a long standing and quite good band who have been around for ever (generally meaning they must be ok). I’d rather go and see Ash supported by ….well not the Darkness to be honest.

Secondly: Fathers 4 Justice – every bloody saturday some prat with a megaphone dressed in a Batman outfit disturbs my Saturday’s. What do they think they’re doing? Does dressing up as Batman and spending every Saturday morning looking for people to sign their silly petition prove they are capable fathers. Fathers 4 Justice may have a point but the tactics used by some members (nasty ones if the Sunday Times, 21st Nov are anything to go by) undermine their point. I don’t think anyone that scales national monuments dressed as a superhero is capable of suitably looking after himself let alone anyone under the age of 16.

Thirdly: Why the hell am I ranting for no reason? I don’t know. I think I’m in a bit of a funny mood today. Hey ho. I’m getting a TV tuner card for my PC so I don’t have to turn into a safe cracker every time I want to watch TV (I may explain all this later otherwise I’m sure I’ll look back in a few years time and wonder what on Earth I am on about).

Which has just triggered a thought – This whole blog thing has lasted a long time. I’m surprised I haven’t removed it by now. I guess lack of anything useful to replace it with is one factor. There may be a few others though. I could always replace it with this.