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Jul. 21st, 2007 07:38 pmI got my Korg PadKontrol today - I asked SoundControl for one, and they had one box left... which was empty... so apparently they sold one without the box. Ace. So I wandered down to Millennium Music instead, which I found was rammed with musical goodness. I could have spent hundreds there, but I managed to escape with just the PadKontrol and a cheap Behringer graphic equaliser guitar pedal. Anyway, the PadKontrol seems to work just fine, although several parts of the software supplied with it just don't work properly. Does nobody test anything any more?
After that, I started trying to practise some of the songs I wrote, because me and Allan are going to rehearse, in the practice rooms next door to Millennium Music no less. I can't remember how to play most of these songs, but then Allan can't remember how to play his drums either. This obviously bodes well for future practices. Chris can't come and play guitar because he's injured his hand and/or got to go to his parents, supposedly.
The other day, I was reminded that the way in which people use the Internet seems to have changed a lot over the last 6 or 7 years. Back in 2000 or so, people on the Internet tended meet people from different places, often through a common interest. But now, it seems to be used more as a way to keep in contact with your existing friends. Hardly anybody instant-messages random people to chat any more. Sites like Facebook are designed to reflect real-life networks of friends and facilitate communication between them. MySpace has no such bias, but is too technically poor to feasibly allow you to meet interesting people (unless 'interesting' is defined as 'looks hot in that user photo'). LiveJournal provides communities but supplies very little information about each one, making finding the good ones a bit hit and miss. Even online games, where you'd once meet many people from around the world and participate together, seem to have moved towards becoming places where people often play mostly with their real-world friends. This seems a bit of a shame to me.
And, it's still raining.
After that, I started trying to practise some of the songs I wrote, because me and Allan are going to rehearse, in the practice rooms next door to Millennium Music no less. I can't remember how to play most of these songs, but then Allan can't remember how to play his drums either. This obviously bodes well for future practices. Chris can't come and play guitar because he's injured his hand and/or got to go to his parents, supposedly.
The other day, I was reminded that the way in which people use the Internet seems to have changed a lot over the last 6 or 7 years. Back in 2000 or so, people on the Internet tended meet people from different places, often through a common interest. But now, it seems to be used more as a way to keep in contact with your existing friends. Hardly anybody instant-messages random people to chat any more. Sites like Facebook are designed to reflect real-life networks of friends and facilitate communication between them. MySpace has no such bias, but is too technically poor to feasibly allow you to meet interesting people (unless 'interesting' is defined as 'looks hot in that user photo'). LiveJournal provides communities but supplies very little information about each one, making finding the good ones a bit hit and miss. Even online games, where you'd once meet many people from around the world and participate together, seem to have moved towards becoming places where people often play mostly with their real-world friends. This seems a bit of a shame to me.
And, it's still raining.
