I’ve changed the way sources are displayed in Bluefunk. I’ve moved them to a separate side-pane that can be shown or hidden. I changed this because I felt it was confusing to have the playlist and sources contained within the same container widget. This was both from a user point of view and a coding point of view as it added quite a few conditional checks to the code. I think this probably acts like in the new Totem, but I have only seen one screenshot so I cannot say for sure. It’s slightly annoying because I’ve been planning this change for at least a couple of months — I haven’t just copied Totem!

The bands we saw; bigger is better, as is supposedly the case with many things.

Friday
The Rakes, The Subways, The Bravery, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy

Saturday
zZz, Vive La Fete, Maximo Park, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Marilyn Manson

Sunday
Editors, Patrick Wolf, Nick Cave

We moved house at the beginning of the month; this is the first time I’ve lived away from home in a non-student house. So far it all seems pretty nice, aside from a couple of problems with light bulbs. We have the Internet set up with Telewest — the set up went very smoothly — but only a laptop online at the moment as we haven’t set up a network. Wireless network cards and router in en route to (hopefully) solve that problem.

I’ve talked about open document formats before. I don’t think I articulated my argument quite as well as Steven Garrity does in this article. It’s an interesting article, as are its predecessors on open formats for music and instant messaging.

I particularly liked this sentence, which I think sums up much of the argument in a couple of sentences:

If your mom buys a computer, writes you a letter, and emails it to you in the Microsoft Word format, you have to pay Microsoft to read the letter.

I’m working at HP again over the summer, which should be good. From October, I’ve accepted an offer from Nameless UK, a webby-type company (never quite sure how to describe web companies!). From the impression I got during my interviews, the people seem like they will be good to work with and the work itself should be interesting too. Looking forward to starting both jobs, a promising start to the summer!

I’m moving into a new house on July 1st, which is also exciting. I’ve been in my current house for going on two years now, so moving to a new one will be quite strange. On the other hand, I’ve been in student accomodation for four years now: it will be nice to have a non-student house. From what I recall, the place is pretty nice; big kitchen and a small garden with barbeque. It should be fun over the summer and beyond.