You have may a noticed that the existing blog comments have all gone missing, and you are unable to add new comments. This is because when I was working on the new version of the blog last night I’d changed some of the field type in the table that holds the comments in the database, however quite stupidly I changed the live table and not the back up table I’d been using for the new blog.

This means I still have all the comments, but I don’t know which blog entry they belong to, or when they where submitted. So it is still possible to recover them, but it is going to take a lot of donkey work. So I am not going to fixing it until the new version of the blog goes live.

Just a quick follow up to the Video did NOT kill the radio star post, Reyn Ouwehand has made his Nemesis the Warlock arrangement available for download from Remix.Kwed.org and Ziphoid’s big surprise for his final show was that he is starting is own radio station called SceneSat, which will play a wide verity of scene related music. You can even listen to a beta release of the stream now.

Right, it’s been a long gap since the last blog, because of apathy, illness and work. I Usually would feel bad  about this, but not today for I have two reasons for this. The first reason is this Blogging without Obligation thing, and secondly according to Blogged.com, I’ve got a top blog. -

Aye, a few weeks back I got an email from Blogged.com telling me they have rated my site 8.6 out of ten.

My first thought is this some sort of con, as My blog is a bit rubbish and I’m not a good blogger by any means, but after checking the site it seems real enough, so I shall except the complaint with good faith and continue on with my mediocre bloggings.

Oh, I haven’t touch the new design of the site for about two weeks, I should really get on with that.

Remember the Secret Santa 2007, Well in a new an exciting development I’ve finally eaten the chewing gum. (Hey, that’s 8.6 out of ten blogging right there).

I had the old Amiga 1200 set up at the weekend, testing it out with the video capture card I’ve got. It is almost working perfectly using composite outputs except I’ve got a big border on the left hand of screen, which pushes the right hand side of the side of screen. I’m going to try routing through the TV and then using an S-Video cable to see if that resolves the border issue next weekend. If it does, I’ll be uploading some video of my old programming project like Plorrds, to YouTube.

Sometime you forget how good thing the simple things are. I’d forgotten how good Instant message could be until early this week when I had a couple of conversations that made me both laugh and relieve a some good memories. The first conversion with was with the forum’s Lazarus, but it was one of those you had to be there moments which had me laughing for a good 15 minutes and the second conversion was with my old flat mate Baz, in which we discussed out favourite C64 loading musics (Miami Vice), Max Headroom remix (Mahoney and Trace) David Whittaker track (Super Robin Hood, Trantor), and when I sent him Mike Post’s ‘The Rockford Files’ music (from the Favourite TV theme tune thread in the forum) we then got in discussed how great the theme from ‘V The original Mini-series’ was and how the show is better than V The Final Battle, and appalling cack ‘V – The Series’. Also did you know a ‘V – The Second Generation’ is in production, set twenty after the original mini-series and will ignore the other follow on shows? I have a feeling the new show will be a bit gash, but hey, I’m hoping I’m wrong. Anyway I’ve gone of topic, so to summarise Instant Message can be great and not just all ‘How R U?’.

Ironically I was listening to a remix of Max Headroom on Slayradio while typing the above, this time it was Wobbler’s mix which is also excellent, but was one we forgot to mention.

Despite many years of predictions of the demise of radio, I like many other people still enjoy listening to radio. I’ll usually listen in the car to either Radio 1, if Scott Mills or Chris Moyles are on, or to Radio 5 for the news and sport. I also download the podcasts of these shows so I can listen to when I’m at home or on my MP3 enabled phone, although I’ve got a huge backlog of Podcasts to listen to.

When I’m at home I listen to some Internet radio stations, Slay Radio being my both my favourite and the one I listen to most. SLAY Radio is a Internet-only radio station dedicated to playing remixes of music from the Commodore 64 computer. It has a dedicated following and a number of DJs playing live shows where DJs and fans come together in an chatroom while on air.

Yesterday turned about to be a great day for Radio listening. I was working from home so I could have the Radio on without disturbing anyone else.

My listening started with The Anna & Mazipan Mid-Week Mid-Morning Madness which is on every Wednesday 10am to 12pm and is described as TWO HOURS of car crash radio LIVE from Kilburn, London. Anna Black and Mazipan make it up as they go along and play some of the best in never-heard-ever-type music, have proper comedy chat and lots and lots more bickering about tea, biscuits and bananas. I try and listen to the show as often as possible as it is always great fun.

Later that I was surprise to hear there was going to be an impromptu show on at four o’clock called ‘Special Service’ which is special edition of the Sunday Service, which is unsurprising usually on a Sunday, presented Live from The Church in Amsterdam with Reyn Ouwehand and co-host by Leoni. The show involves listeners making requests for tracks with a style to play them in and then Reyn plays them on his collection of instruments live and single handled (but with both hands).

I usually turn up late for shows on slay radio because of the combination of having a life (it is always getting in the way of my fun) and my poor planning. However I turn up early for this show and I was able to get my request in early meaning it was the first one Reyn played, after a little bit of technical trouble.

The show didn’t have many requests because the song requester in the IRC chat room was broken, so I requested another track Nemesis the Warlock. Reyn played a beautiful mellow piano version as the last tack and winding down part of the show. I really would recommend you download the show, even if it is just to listen to that track it is inspired. (I’m listening again while I’m typing this)

The final show of the day on Slayradio was BBB (Boz’s Bit o’ Bollocks) which is a weekly show that is broadcast on every Wednesday at 7PM (UK time) hosted by Boz. The emphasis is getting the listeners involved, by playing their requests, talking about them on air and interacting with them on IRC and it really has to be heard to be believed. I got another request played on this show and Boz was kind enough to plug plug my YouTube videos.

I’ll be listening to Slay Radio again tonight (although I will miss the first half the show due to other commitments) as it’s Ziphoid’s final show on Slay Radio and he has a big surprise that is well worth tuning in for.