John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru.
One of my favourite DJs. Period. No one was quite like old Peel. One of those people who has been around what seems like forever and you think always will be. I’ve found many, many new bands from John, as have many others I am sure. His tireless championing of real music over the tosh that inhabits the charts will be sorely missed. My thoughts are with his family and friends.
Okay everyone, Bluefunk code has hit sf.net CVS if you want to try it out. There’s a readme in there which details the stuff I think you need; if there’s other stuff tell me. The build is pretty raw atm, just a make file that dumps you an exe in the root directory.
Have fun, and write up some bugs if you want =) But not ones about how you can’t get it running, ‘cause if you’re gonna check it out from CVS, well, you are going to have to work for your *funk!
Bluefunk’s SourceForge page. No releases and so on yet, apologies! Trying to figure out what you need to build/run bluefunk prior to that… Hopefully CVS access should be available soon, for those hardy enough to try that route.
A step forward, in any case.
Does anyone have a copy of 11:11 by Regina Spektor they would be willing to sell/send me a copied version of? I can’t find a version of it for sale, but the previews on CDBaby make it sound pretty cool.
I have Soviet Kitsch on CD and Songs on mp3 atm, so help completing my collection would be appreciated.
The usual p2p suspects don’t seem to have it — otherwise why would I bother both the readers of my site with the request, it’s unlikely anyone does have it!
A final post on what happened to my computer. There is some repetition of earlier posts, but I thought I may as well just write the whole story.
After the panic about the hard drive dying, I tried out a couple of other disks. At first they seemed to work, but the next day they started displaying the same symptoms as the old hdd (the one presumed to have broken). This gave me cause to believe that it wasn’t the hard disk that was the cause of the problem. At the same time as I realised this, I noticed that the DVD drive started to repeatedly make the noise it makes when it is first powered up. It seemed like the drive was being repeatedly power-cycled. I put an ear up to the hard disk in the machine; it also seemed to be whirring up and down — similarly power-cycle-esque.