Because of yesterday's shocking revelations (well,they were shocking to me, you probably suspected as much from way back) I've had the feeling, on and off, a little bit like I'm a mad old man shouting at the sea. Or some character from a monologue Russian play sitting alone on stage with a single chair, shouting into the darkness in angst and anger.
I spent some of today working on the refit. I shall call it that because it sounds 'manual' and 'techie'. To a degree it was more like shopping for clothes.
I spent half the day wandering around grand, impressive stores, staring blankly through large collections. Only to go back to where I first started to make a purchase. (I don't really shop like that. My ideal shopping trip is zhum, into store, zhum, jeans, trousers, shirt, tee-shirts. Pay. Out. Nearest pub for beer and 12:30 kick off game. Sorted)
What do you think of it? Likey? Yes? Again, I find I am feeling like a child acting out with collected teddies, dolls, elephants. You're not real. You weren't here yesterday to see the old design. How could you compare? Even if you could you wouldn't give a damn! Well, if you do you can tell me now because I can see the comments. Yay!
Revisiting some earlier threads, I ran 'The Normalizer' on a small portion of my mp3 collection. I have a folder called 'World Music'. Best fit for stuff that didn't naturally slot in anywhere else. Cuban, African, Salsa, Latin beats, that sort of stuff. Only around 100 tracks, so it was a representative sample. I can only imagine with humour what the testing has done to my Last.FM profile. I was Norman No-Mates as it was on Last.FM. Any time I looked at an interesting profile and compared I would always get 'Your compatability is LOW.'
Just to test it, I scouted round Last.FM users - after five lows I found a 22 year old guy from Chile that was HIGH - the compatibility was HIGH. It was from a group called Gay Indie, so I don't know what that says about me or my music taste, but I'm secure enough in my sexuality for it not to worry me.
Beatles Rockband is getting a lot of attention. Clever Abbey Road ad.
I digress. Normalization seems to have worked OK. I kept listening to processed and unprocessed tracks. I guess the test is to duplicate the same file and listen to it processed and unprocessed. It is something of a Holy Grail to have all of my collection at a similar volume as opposed to the wild fluctuations in levels they are presently. I did think I noticed a lack of dynamism in processed to unprocessed. I may be duping myself though.
Despite UEFAs denials, I continue to suspect the SFA had a hand in Eduardo's right royal shafting and public humiliation. Consequently, when they failed to qualify for next years World Cup Finals I felt no sympathy whatsoever for them, their lost revenue or Darren Fletcher.
And while I'm at it, the England fans booing Eduardo. Hypocritical bastards one and all. As if they give a toss about the purity of the game (yes I'm looking at you Gerard, Owen, et al), Celtic and the faintest idea that he is the only player to have ever gone down under less than demolishing contact. Stupid.
I continue to study internet marketing, ebook writing and affiliate plans. Which reminds me, as predicted yesterday (oh no, you weren't here, were you) the first task of the day saw me dismantling my newly erected WordPress installation after receiving a 'low on disk space' warning in my morning mail.
I am toying with writing an ebook . I receive a fair share of calls for help with PCs. None of my friends and family seem anxious to cross my palm but maybe a stranger would consider parting with dollar for my knowledge. I'm damned sure I could write it better than a lot of the pigeon English efforts I have read so far.
Mind you, when I started this blog I assumed I was going to achieve traffic stats in figures higher than ZERO!
I think about some of the other options and well, you can imagine what I'm thinking.
Welcome to the disappointment!
