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thedarkproject) wrote2007-06-02 04:40 pm
thedarkproject) wrote2007-06-02 04:40 pm
short and snappy summarised update
Yesterday was Damage: it was good. Jonah the Stand-in DJ did a good job, and I'm not just saying that because he played a Dawn Of Solace song for me either. Nobody else knew what it was, but one person asked me afterwards, "what was that? It's fucking ace!"
Today I discovered a few little things: firstly, that it's not broken RAM in my computer, meaning that it's either the CPU (unlikely) or some sort of configuration or software issue (likely). I also discovered that guitar string lubricant really does make a difference. Lube up and perform better, apparently.
I also received my order from Plastic Head, or at least three quarters of it, since the last cd (Saturnus, I think) was out of stock. That's the second time recently I've been told something is out of stock, despite the online ordering system clearly saying it's in stock. Sort it out, online merchants!
I'm not sure what I think about all the 'Web 2.0' companies selling out to large corporations at the moment. I can understand why MySpace did it, because they had a good idea with an utterly dire implementation, and wanted to cash in on that idea before someone came along and did it better. That's why Facebook are going the opposite way, refusing to sell because their technology thrashes MySpace to within a byte of its life. But Last.fm selling out to CBS seems a particularly poor move as they were already way ahead of the competition and could have probably sold for more later, if indeed they needed to sell at all. Ebay buying StumbleUpon seems a bizarre move too - the StumbleUpon technology is essentially Last.fm for websites, helping direct you to pages that it thinks you might like, but how does that tie in to Ebay? I don't see any obvious benefit there, short of skimming off any potential profit. Strange.
Today I discovered a few little things: firstly, that it's not broken RAM in my computer, meaning that it's either the CPU (unlikely) or some sort of configuration or software issue (likely). I also discovered that guitar string lubricant really does make a difference. Lube up and perform better, apparently.
I also received my order from Plastic Head, or at least three quarters of it, since the last cd (Saturnus, I think) was out of stock. That's the second time recently I've been told something is out of stock, despite the online ordering system clearly saying it's in stock. Sort it out, online merchants!
I'm not sure what I think about all the 'Web 2.0' companies selling out to large corporations at the moment. I can understand why MySpace did it, because they had a good idea with an utterly dire implementation, and wanted to cash in on that idea before someone came along and did it better. That's why Facebook are going the opposite way, refusing to sell because their technology thrashes MySpace to within a byte of its life. But Last.fm selling out to CBS seems a particularly poor move as they were already way ahead of the competition and could have probably sold for more later, if indeed they needed to sell at all. Ebay buying StumbleUpon seems a bizarre move too - the StumbleUpon technology is essentially Last.fm for websites, helping direct you to pages that it thinks you might like, but how does that tie in to Ebay? I don't see any obvious benefit there, short of skimming off any potential profit. Strange.