Progress

Well, having procrastinated for weeks over the guitar re-wiring, I managed to get it done this evening.
It was actually much simpler than I thought, and I think I’ve learned a useful lesson about soldering – just start from scratch…

On the 23rd December, I announced a simple but effective spam-blocking device for comments on the blog using a password system. See Comment spam – password (required).
I finished the post with the rhetorical question:
“Let’s see how long it…

retreat:

determine date
book cottage

instruments:

wire and setup guitar
wire and setup bass
build fuzz-box
new bridge for fiddle?

Studio equipment:

Buy iMac G5
Buy Logic 7
Buy Motu 828 MkII
Set up and test all studio equipment

web…

Oh, and Happy New Year to you too.
I’ve been debilitated over Christmas and New Year with a deadly combination of chest infection followed by head cold, so although I managed to get up to Edinburgh for the New Year…

If you celebrate Christmas, then I hope you have a good time.
Me, I’m off to get the tray of goodies ready for Santa and his reindeer. I find it quite thrilling that Santa and I should share the same…

Well actually, it arrived yesterday and came complete with one horizontal line of dead pixels across the lower third of the screen.
So to be completely accurate, the iMac G5 replacement arrived today.
My small bedroom studio is now almost…

Like everyone else who runs a weblog, I’m being pestered by comment spammers.
Because search engines (and Google in particular) rank sites by the number of links to them, spammers are now sending in hundreds of comments to blogs. With…

The fuzz box kit has arrived. My first thought is that I’ll have to paint it yellow in honour of my old Tonebender, and design a ‘HIT IT!’ graphic to ornament the footswitch.
The parts for the bass have arrived…

retreat:

determine date
book cottage

instruments:

wire and setup guitar
wire and setup bass
build fuzz-box
new bridge for fiddle?

Studio equipment:

Buy iMac G5
Buy Logic 7
Buy Motu 828 MkII
Set up and test all studio equipment

web…

…make a proper ‘to do’ list, and start ticking off items.
OK, here goes:

make a proper ‘to do’ list…