Some thoughts before I launch into it all for the day. Just been listening to Paul Wellers Days of Speed in the car - great stuff. Now I want all the Jam back catagloue though. Its funny contrasting all the Pop Idol nonsense with an album like this - here is a guy with a great voice and a guitar, on his own and its really compelling stuff. The main reason for this I guess is that the music comes from inside. This whole Pop Idol things misses out on that - its not the music thats important its the fame - the title says it all.
The CORBA stuff that has been driving me up the wall for weeks works - and works well at that. The system is stable under load test and we are now working at improving the performance. Its a bit of a relief really - after that amount of work you get terrible visions of it all being a waste of time. I guess after the amount of time I have being doing this (I started programming in 1981) you get a feel for it. Doesn't save you from those horrible moments of doubt though. At least I get to do something interesting next - got a number of things that need looking at so I'll see how I feel.
Haven't had much music in me this week but I have been doing lots of cooking - I had a long break from it (mainly due to living on my own - its no fun cooking for one). Having a lot of problems with one of the stories on the Storytellers project which is now under threat of cancellation - will have to see what happens with that. The christmas CD is basically going to be the stuff on the recent music page and a couple more tracks that are sitting on the hard disk recorder but need mixing down (and a wee bit of editing) - I might remaster some of them - I am getting the hang of T-Racks now.
Oh well - time to do some work
Posted by Mark at December 6, 2001 10:50 AM