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Eeek… a musical baton!

Posted by Jonathan at 20:50:38 UTC on the 19th of May, 2005

From Tjaard cometh thy musical baton, which apparently started on Livejournal before moving onto the higher planes of Blogosphere. As much as I loath chain-anythings, I’ll give this one an exception. ;)

Total volume of music files on my computer…
I actually have very few music files on my computer since I’m one of these odd people whom still have most of their music on these funny 12″ black disc shaped things. However, I do have quite a few deephousepage.com mixes saved locally which totals exactly 1 577 312 293 bytes. Mostly Larry Heard’s mixes though Dino & Terry, Theo Parish, DJ Pope, Master Kev, et cetera all feature. Non-mixed stuff totals a grand 0 bytes! :P
The last CD I bought was…
CD? Yikes… that’d be quite a while ago, though I’m pretty sure it was “The Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai)”
Song playing right now…
Nuspirit Helsinki featuring Kasio - Take It Back (available on Guidance’s “Hi-Fidelity House: Imprint 3”)
Five songs I listen to a lot/mean a lot to me…
No idea how I’m supposed to pick 5 out from literally hundreds, oh well… here goes:
The fiveseven people where this meme will go on…
A few from my blogroll will suffice:

There we go, makes a change from the last 9 software posts and 2 politics related ones preceeding that! ;)

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It’s good to Gurn!

Posted by Jonathan at 19:38:33 UTC on the 7th of May, 2005

In the wee hours of yesterday evening the new look Gurn.net launched, a site run by a couple of personal friends (Meza & Rowan) also living in good old Northamption, which has shared this very server for the last 2 and bit years. Aside from me being the “Linux Admin” for the old site, I was asked for my input as they were keen to move to the site design to something more CSS orientated, it appears the comment I put in the top of the mock-up page containing various XHTML elements all brightly coloured, annotated and placed pretty much as per the PhotoShop reference I had has survived to this day!


<!--
	
	This page is new Gurn.net by Gurn.net Ltd, thanks to
	Richard Deighton and Jonathan Stanley
	Page tests ok in:
	* Mozilla 1.7b
	* Firebird 0.7
	* Firefox 1.0 Win / OSX
	* Opera 7.54 Win / OSX
	* Internet Explorer (Win) 6.0
	* Internet Explorer (Win) 5.5 SP2
	* Internet Explorer (Win) 5.01 SP2
	* Safari 1.2.4 (v125.11) OSX
	
	The page however does get killed by Netscape 4.x, IE4.x and
	MAC IE5 but people who use those should really upgrade
	their browser to something modern.
	http://www.getfirefox.com
	
-->

There are some additions obviously as back when I made the page. Firefox didn’t exist for one as it was still Firebird, not to mention I personally didn’t have any OSX platform to test said mock-up page on. Also as the development site was worked on, “Structuralist Draconianism” I would have gone for gave way to something a little more pragmatic. Still, the results are impressive as the mark-up is much more readable and more or less validates and such remaining issues, if they wish to be tackled are actually quite trivial to fix.

So all in all, pretty impressive work consider that the lads had no experience with this CSS and structural XHTML lark not exactly that long ago plus they had to build the new site’s back-end system from scratch along the way… The things the two lads do for the British night-clubbing and DJ-ing crowd!

I can also give myself a pat on the back in setting up their new server which has handled the launch with their not exactly small community of 12 000 members and 2.4 million posts barely using any CPU cycles! ;)


19:34:11 up 10 days,  4:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.33, 0.30, 0.22
74 processes: 73 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   3.3% user,   1.3% system,   0.0% nice,  95.4% idle
Mem:   1550684K total,  1504780K used,    45904K free,    53020K buffers
Swap:  2097136K total,        0K used,  2097136K free,   684728K cached

As the old site says… “Gurn is dead, long live Gurn!”. :D

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John Peel: 30th August 1939 – 25th October 2004

Posted by Jonathan at 20:32:20 UTC on the 26th of October, 2004

A living legend has died.

Sir John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE, known professionally as John Peel and presenter of the late night Radio 1 show for nearly 40 years. He championed the eclectic and leftfield artists in the music industry and introducing many listeners to such things as Rock, Punk, Grunge, Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, Electro, Techno, Industrial Metal, World music and so on… all presented with his unmistakable style.

If one’s thoughts and ideas is a reflection of the music they are exposed to, then I’m certain that John Peel has shown and infuenced me; plus many others, an immense amount.

He’ll be sorely missed.

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New mixes online! :D

Posted by Jonathan at 21:27:00 UTC on the 5th of June, 2003

Well, here we go… two new mixes in as many days. Certainly helps when you have some new records to muck about with. :D

There’s a Deep House mix just under two and a half hours long, and a Tech House mix just over the hour mark. Enjoy!

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