Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
09 01 2006
Those of you who access my blog through blog.signal2noise.co.uk might notice that I completely rewrote the menu system to allow previous months of blog entries to be accessed. An initial rewrite failed the diamond test (asking diamond whether he liked it or not) and after he quite rightly pointed out that I shouldn't be a lazy coder, I genericised the system to give the current offering. It's still text only, implemented in perl rather than javascript so it's any-browser(tm) compatible - and most importantly, it doesn't require me to do anything next year to add another year to the calendar. Next step is to start automating the addition of months. Perhaps I'll get a chance to code that tomorrow evening.
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I let Sinéad pick my first piece to learn in the new year and she suggested one I already play regularly on piano and guitar for céilís, Shoe The Donkey. I've written up some notation (see below) without ornamentation and even managed to make a VERY rough recording of me playing it. I'll post my trials and tribulations of trying to get a glitch-free recording under Mac OS-X and an M-Audio Firewire 410 some other day.
Please forgive the quality of the recorded audio - it was recorded on an ibook in my living room and is intended purely as a reference for myself to see how much (and if) I improve during the year.
