Its scary - these updates are getting almost regular. I'm sure it won't last though....
Still stuck on the stupid conversion to CORBA at work. I will be glad to get it sorted out and out of the way.
Excellent weekend as ever - did some shopping on Saturday (even bought some new clothes). Then we went for a walk up behind West Linton in the Pentland Hills. Got lots of reading done as well - caught up with this months magazines and finished The Dumas Club. An excellent tale of litarary intrigue. Its hard to imagine that a tale of a spannish bookseller investigating the authenticity of a manuscript from the three muskateers could be so hard to put down but it was. I am sure that if you spoke other languages (french and Latin come to mind) you would get even more out of it but even as it stands its a damm fine read. I am currently reading Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett - which despite being marketed as a childrens book is classic Pratchett and rather entertaining.
My friend Rick has a new short story available for free When The Stars Threw Down Their Spears (go to the page and click on the story title). I haven't had a chance to read it yet but if you can't plug your friends on your own website where can you do it eh?
Also as Mr Steve points out below if you are unfortunate (*evil grin*) enough to own a Mac you might want to use iTunes rather than WinAmp to listen to Mp3's.
I had not intention whatsoever of doing any music this weekend - the idea was to give my creative batteries a rest and let them recharge. However I got to messing about with the Modular Synth that I have for the pulsar and ended up writing the track below. Its mostly the modular (a single patch with several parts) although there is a deep bass part added via the sampler. This mp3 is rendered at 64kbs rather than 128 to keep the download size down. If you want a higher resolution version feel free to email me.
Marinus ( mp3 , 5,257KB , 11:12)
I have been giving some thought to doing a compilation of my recent music for Christmas. If you would be interested in receiving a copy please email me. This will be CDR format (although there will be artwork). If numbers are high there may be a small charge.
Posted by Mark at November 12, 2001 12:54 PM