June 2006

From playlistmag.com

Famed electronic duo The Crystal Method has released Drive: Nike+ Original Run, a 45 minute continuous electronic music mix for runners.

Gotta love The Crystal Method. Vegas is a must-have album.

As the observant among you will have noticed, I have been conspicuous by my absence of late. So where have I been?

Well, some of it it’s interesting and some of it isn’t. Firstly, been spending my free time learning PHP. I’ve become a little engrossed in a little personal project, the purpose of which is to write an app to catalog my movie collection. It’s been fun (most of the time) if a little frustrating (most of the time!).

Other than that, went to my first festival last week! The Sunrise Celebration took place in Somerset between the 16th - 21st of June. We (as in my band, Just to Annoy Ray) played a couple of sets there, Friday on the Eartheart (Whirl-Y-Gig) Stage and Sunday in the Bimble Inn. We had a great time with both sets being really well received, though I do HAVE to give a big shout out to the guys at the Bimble Inn for all their hard work. It was touch and go for a while, but they pulled it off. Fair play guys!

Other than playing, the definite highlight was seeing Banco de Gaia play live in Friday night. It was awesome! For those of you that don’t know him, his new album, Farewell Ferengistan is worth picking up, and there are a couple of classic tunes you NEED to hear, namely Last Train to Lhasa, Heliopolis, and Drunk as a Monk (Rabbit in the Moon Mix).

So in summary, I’ve been programming, getting drunk, and dancing around to upbeat ambient dance music in a big field (though not ALL at the same time!)

Technorati Tags: Banco de Gaia, Sunrise Celebration, Just to Annoy Ray, Undulattice

Having seen a post on Daring Fireball about posting to a blog from Textmate, I thought I’d give it a go.
Since deciding to learn something about PHP a few weeks ago, I went in search of a text editor that would suit my needs and Textmate seems to be the weapon of choice. I’ve been using it as my main text editor for a few weeks now and it is the bomb, the mac, and the daddy.
Just have to see how the blogging bit works out. Not as elegant as Ecto but does a lot more besides blogging!