Bit of a cock up on the studio front. Studio was double booked and we were gazumped in favor of the other bookees.
Karl and I were up until 2:30am on Monday night meticulously working and reworking the tracks.
When we arrived in the studio our respective jaws dropped on the acoustically shielded floor. We were only in a few minutes when a troupe of kid-rockers from Limerick with barbed wire drawn on their red drums in marker arrived - yes, I might be a little bitter. It’s quite annoying really as 5 people (3 of us and 2 engineers) had taken the day off for it.
So, the three of us brought the gear, that we had transported in a found shopping trolley, back, had coffee-breakfast and wandered into town for a wandery wander around town including every guitar shop in the south city centre.
We’re booked in again on Saturday March 4th.
Archive for February, 2006
Did I mention … wont be online or in work tomorrow. The Clap will be in the studio (a real proper studio with engineers) all day, or as long as it takes to get two tracks down.
Did I mention we’re going into the studio tomorrow? We are.
News to me and nearly 9 months after the fact I found out that Karl and myself got a mention in the “Blogosphere” section of the Sunday Tribune on June 26th last year.
The original article can be read here but a username and password are required (bugmenot is your friend). Bernie has a more readable transcript.
I would never have noticed if I hadn’t installed the Google Web Comments extension for Firefox that uses the Google Blog Search feature
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Mein Gott, es ist voll von Sternen.
Mon Dieu, il est plein des étoiles.
Mi Dios, está repleto de estrellas.
Min Gud, det er full av stjerner.
Mio Dio, è pieno di stelle.
A Dhia, tá sé lán le réalta.
Mijn God, is het volledig van sterren.
(Additions, corrections and discussion welcomed and requested)
Some days it seems that all I do in work is send emails, work related ones that is. Today is one of those days. Some days I find it hard to be productive. At least these email-days are productive, but they’re not very fulfilling.
I upgraded the Firefox and Thunderbird on my (Ubuntu) workstation in work to their 1.5 versions during the week. I’m glad I did because the Firefox 1.5 seems much faster and I do so like the inline spell checking in Thunderbird 1.5. The EN-GB dictionary wont install for some reason though so I’ll be izing this and centering that for a while.
I’ve been using procmail for many years now to filter mails into IMAP folders and a few other neat things. Here are a couple of tips or tricks I want to share;
The first one is a way of killfiling/blacklisting or plonking particular email addresses, perhaps a user on a mailing list who grates on your nerves:
:0i
* ? /usr/bin/formail -x"From" -x"From:" -x"Sender:" \
-x"Reply-To:" -x"Return-Path:" -x"To:" \
| /bin/egrep -is -f $HOME/.blacklist
/dev/null
.blacklist is a file containing the email address of miscreants. Put this recipe near the top of your ~/.procmailrc so it will be one of the first to be processed.
Replace “/dev/null” with “.Trash” if you want to be more cautious and instead send mails to your IMAP trash folder.
Say you want to perform a command, such as sending an SMS message (using o2sms for example) upon receipt of a particular email and then filter the email to a folder, try something like this:
:0c
* ^Subject: .*Important Topic*.
{
:0ci
| echo "New email from`/usr/bin/formail -x"From:"` at `date '+%X %Z %x'`"\
| $SMS $MYNUM >> $HOME/.smslogfile
:0
.Somefolder/
}
$SMS and $MYNUM are defined with the rest of the constants at the top of the top of my ~/.procmailrc as the path to my o2sms script and my mobile number respectively.
Suggestions, corrections and improvements welcomed.
