Hi-Fi Homemade Speaker

(from the Audio on a budget department)

Hi everyone,

This is very clever. The electrical engineer and the audio engineer in me both approve:

http://www.josepino.com/other_projects/index?homemade-hifi-speaker.jpc

Cheers,
Paul

Standards for all!!!

(from the Acid 2 department)

Hi everyone,

After reading this post about IE8 and the Acid 2 test, I wondered how Firefox was doing. Currently, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 do not pass the test. But - how about Firefox 3.0?

So - I tried the Acid 2 test with Firefox 3.0 beta 2. And guess what?



Yup - it passes!

So - now - Opera, Safari, IE and Firefox all pass the Acid 2 test. Standards - here we come?

Cheers,
Paul

Merry Christmas from Santa and Rose!!!

(from the Happy Holidays department)

Hi everyone,

Well - our little Rose got to meet Santa for the first time. She was extremely well behaved - perhaps it was her new velvet dress!



Merry Christmas everyone!

Cheers,
Paul

First Led Zeppelin, then My Bloody Valentine, now this?

Hi everyone,

Okay - this may not shiver your timbers like it does mine, but after Wire, my favorite band is Swervedriver.

And....

Swervedriver 2008 Reunion World Tour

The Road Is Long

So it looks like Swervedriver will hit the road once more. It all happened quite quickly and we met up in a pub in London last month and figured out what we'd like to do, which at this point is just heading out and playing some shows again.

As far as new recordings are concerned, I already have two albums to record next year (a new 'solo' and The Setting Suns debut) and they take priority. Maybe the Swervies can rustle up a new tune or two but really, there's more than enough going on with that back catalogue already.

I gotta say that something that really sparked my interest in this was hearing the live version of Sandblasted that has been posted for some time at swervedriver.com and subsequently at the MySpace page. I'd just never heard it played like that before. I mean, I guess I was there and everything, but it's got this great kinda country style to it that sounds like it might have only happened one night, and it's stuff like that that keeps the whole thing alive to me... not only in the music but the fact that other folks cared enough to record and post these recordings.

In the meantime this 'Bolts of Melody' tour has been going really good and finally it's reached the point where nobody bitches after the shows about the lack of Swervedriver songs! I guess because they've been leaving completely satiated by the set that culminates with the twelve minute C chord that is Ramonesland. Things are nicely in place to build on with another album next year and there's already a great album taking shape I think..

So I guess I'd better sleep now.. cheers - A

BTW - The 'A' stands for Adam Franklin, head swervie. I do have Bolts Of Melody - remind me to tell you about it sometime.

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. A slight update - looks like the classic Swervedriver song "Duel" will be in Burnout: Paradise!!! w00t! Hit the accelerator now, baby!

Kind of an experiment

(from the Are you kidding me? Kewl! department)

Hi everyone,

I'm trying something out here. It's a clip from YouTube of Robert Plant & Pearl Jam performing Going To California. Enjoy!



Cheers,
Paul

P.S. This is research so I can post some Rose videos to the blog.