Updates again to the site, some how or other missed a show that Dirk produced called Growning up with the Goons broadcast on 25 th December 2008 I must admit that I think we were just a bit busy with Xmas stuff and all that. As Dirk produced the show it has gone on the site as it is something he did do.
All I have to try an do is get to hear it!
29 December, 2008
ipod touch
Well as I said earlier the touch is what I got for Xmas this year to replace a rather old creative mp3 player. So far I have found that it's all to easy to download free apps that you don't need, and the apps that you do want have yet to be written. I have also had the odd thought or two on how easy is it for Apple to redo the firmware in the machine as there as still a few parts of the software that come with the machine that just look like they have not been finished.
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
28 December, 2008
Cold
Just want to record here that it's cold here the stat says that it is 19.3 c but I still feel cold why?
27 December, 2008
itouch & all that
Can you guess what I got for Xmas?, yes that's right a new mp3 player, this time it's from Apple and it's a itouch.
My old creative mp3 player has done very good service, and it still works but as I am into podcasts it does not handle them, mainly because when it was made they did not exist!
So I am now in the Apple crowd along with lots of other folk and I must say for the most part the experance has been very good.
My podcasts are all where they should be and it all sync's nice.
What I don't like is that when i transferd some of my exsisting music it never seems to have the album artwork and this is for stuff that is in the shops and had been out there for folks to buy for weeks or months why is it? The stuff is very popular eg the albums are in the top twenty.
The other thing that I like about the itouch is how light and small it is and how nice the screen is.
As I have the 32G unit you can see why I needed one that big as I have already only got 14G space left on it!
So of course it goes with out saying that in early 2009 they will release the 64G unit, not that I need that much space yet!
My old creative mp3 player has done very good service, and it still works but as I am into podcasts it does not handle them, mainly because when it was made they did not exist!
So I am now in the Apple crowd along with lots of other folk and I must say for the most part the experance has been very good.
My podcasts are all where they should be and it all sync's nice.
What I don't like is that when i transferd some of my exsisting music it never seems to have the album artwork and this is for stuff that is in the shops and had been out there for folks to buy for weeks or months why is it? The stuff is very popular eg the albums are in the top twenty.
The other thing that I like about the itouch is how light and small it is and how nice the screen is.
As I have the 32G unit you can see why I needed one that big as I have already only got 14G space left on it!
So of course it goes with out saying that in early 2009 they will release the 64G unit, not that I need that much space yet!
26 December, 2008
Blogs and all that stuff
So for the first time in a while I have some spare time, and as it's very cold outside and I don't want to freeze on the mountain bike I start to surf the net and flicker and Blogger, and I have found some Blogs that have opened my eyes to how cruel and dam right nasty people can be to each other, and just because of choices and nature can get things wrong.
I have to admit to not thinking about some of the choices folks out there have to make, and what I have read, some of the things that they have had to go through I know that I could not.
So I have linked to them and I am going to follow their Blogs, their lives are very different from mine, but they are the same as me, in wanting the same things that I think all of use want, friendship, love ect you know the list of common things that all of us want and need, and most of us get some of these things, now as I am not that outward going in real-life and also on the net, I find that I don't have the guts to just drop a line or two, to these folk just to say wow your great in going for it and what you need to do to find peace.
So if you folk do some how fall over this site, I am sorry that I have not given you a nod to say go for it, but I have my own hurdles, I know they are nothing to what you have to go through.
May be one day I will be able to climb my own personal mountain...
Knowing just how bad I have been at doing this Blog, this could and I think will be my last Blog of the year.
I have to admit to not thinking about some of the choices folks out there have to make, and what I have read, some of the things that they have had to go through I know that I could not.
So I have linked to them and I am going to follow their Blogs, their lives are very different from mine, but they are the same as me, in wanting the same things that I think all of use want, friendship, love ect you know the list of common things that all of us want and need, and most of us get some of these things, now as I am not that outward going in real-life and also on the net, I find that I don't have the guts to just drop a line or two, to these folk just to say wow your great in going for it and what you need to do to find peace.
So if you folk do some how fall over this site, I am sorry that I have not given you a nod to say go for it, but I have my own hurdles, I know they are nothing to what you have to go through.
May be one day I will be able to climb my own personal mountain...
Knowing just how bad I have been at doing this Blog, this could and I think will be my last Blog of the year.
28 November, 2008
Dirk Maggs Website Updates
Yes, I know that it has been awhile since the last update on this Blog. But truth if it is to be told is that there has been nothing to report.
Work on my other projects has stopped. The reason sorting out stuff in real life like my job.
The only two things that have now changed and hence why this post is that I have started a very low level off-line project DMP 3 which is a technology test bed for the main DMP site and so far progress has been very good and the results from it have been far better than expected and getting results so early into the project has been a surprise.
The only other bit of news has been that Dirk Maggs has another production out which is due broadcast 29th Nov on BBC Radio 4 its called Boscobel if yet have the time have a look out for it I know I will.
Work on my other projects has stopped. The reason sorting out stuff in real life like my job.
The only two things that have now changed and hence why this post is that I have started a very low level off-line project DMP 3 which is a technology test bed for the main DMP site and so far progress has been very good and the results from it have been far better than expected and getting results so early into the project has been a surprise.
The only other bit of news has been that Dirk Maggs has another production out which is due broadcast 29th Nov on BBC Radio 4 its called Boscobel if yet have the time have a look out for it I know I will.
09 November, 2008
AE35 Episode 13
Just a note to me from me saying that episode 13 of the ae35 podcast has been done and published, or it should be by the time you get to read this.
08 November, 2008
Dirk Maggs Producer Web site
It has been a little while since I did anything on this Blog.
And has been even longer since I did any up dates to the Dirk Maggs Productions Web site, so I am pleased to report that the site has been updated yesterday (07.11.2008) as there is a new production by Dirk that is due to air on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday at 9 pm.
The show is one hour long and I will admit here that having had the chance to hear it I spent 15 minutes stuck in the works car park just so I could hear it all the way to the end. And I have to say it's time well spent.
I have to thank Dirk for the preview tape and the show is called The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack road show and if you can give your ears a treat they will thank you for it, the scripts and the production values and the actors all have combined in such away that it is an audio movie and the tension and fear that build up in the play, work very well. Dare I say classic Maggs?
It must be good as the Radio Times has made it choice of the day on Radio 4 so what more do I need to say!
And has been even longer since I did any up dates to the Dirk Maggs Productions Web site, so I am pleased to report that the site has been updated yesterday (07.11.2008) as there is a new production by Dirk that is due to air on BBC Radio 4 next Thursday at 9 pm.
The show is one hour long and I will admit here that having had the chance to hear it I spent 15 minutes stuck in the works car park just so I could hear it all the way to the end. And I have to say it's time well spent.
I have to thank Dirk for the preview tape and the show is called The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack road show and if you can give your ears a treat they will thank you for it, the scripts and the production values and the actors all have combined in such away that it is an audio movie and the tension and fear that build up in the play, work very well. Dare I say classic Maggs?
It must be good as the Radio Times has made it choice of the day on Radio 4 so what more do I need to say!
02 October, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 20a
The book is as I last spoke you in the last blog.
Some new news is that the firm that I was going to use to do the private printing LULU.com have changed the costs and stuff, the only problem is that if there email is anything to go by I will not stand a chance of working out what the costs or changes are.
So I am now going to have to put on the to-do list that I don't have find another book publisher...
Bum is all that I can say to this as it's yet more work.
Some new news is that the firm that I was going to use to do the private printing LULU.com have changed the costs and stuff, the only problem is that if there email is anything to go by I will not stand a chance of working out what the costs or changes are.
So I am now going to have to put on the to-do list that I don't have find another book publisher...
Bum is all that I can say to this as it's yet more work.
26 September, 2008
Podcast part 3
Some how or other I have done another podcast! this one less than 2 weeks after the last one this has got to be a record.
25 September, 2008
Updates & all that stuff part 2
Just a note to myself that I have made a large update to the main page of the Dirk Maggs website, I have even got a new name for it, The Relevant Chronology of Dirk Maggs!, yes I know it does not read nice, but at this time it's a test to see if I like it and as its my website, I can do whatever I like!
23 September, 2008
cole green way, hertford
This could be what summer days should be like, its strange but I was near to where this image was taken not that many weeks ago, but there was the light that you can see in this image. If I ever get the chance to go back to Hertford then this is a place I have to see with my own eyes on a blue sky day.
spin
This images is just great, it made me think that its a good job windmills don't move at this speed.
17 September, 2008
Nettles
So I was walking around the site at work today through part of the forest that we have when I noticed for the first time that not all nettles are the same, this was a bit of an eyeopener for me as for the last four decades I had thought that all nettles were the same.
So it goes without saying that I put the word on my list of items to Google.
So it goes without saying that I put the word on my list of items to Google.
15 September, 2008
Now What
So with all these updates you would think that I have found lots of free time. Well no I havn't but I am just trying to get some thing done.
Updates again
I think there must have been something in the water yesterday as I did some updates!
yeah I know ...scary or what?
The updates were to the ae35 pod cast site, in that I did a new pod cast number 8!
This pod cast was mainly about the progress or lack of on all the projects that I am doing eg the Dirk Maggs book the website and the ae35 pod cast.
If I am not very careful it could be that I might update more.
yeah I know ...scary or what?
The updates were to the ae35 pod cast site, in that I did a new pod cast number 8!
This pod cast was mainly about the progress or lack of on all the projects that I am doing eg the Dirk Maggs book the website and the ae35 pod cast.
If I am not very careful it could be that I might update more.
14 September, 2008
Updates & all that stuff
it's been some time since I last said anything in this blog, and also about the various projects that I have on the go at some time or other. As this blog is for me I think I need to tell myself what i have been doing or not over the last few weeks or so.
The Dirk Maggs books has not got any further along in its editing and the problem with the indexes still needs to be sorted one way or another. I just have not had several clear hours in which to work on the book. One problem is that after all this time of not looking at it, you forget things that are in it and also the things that you wanted to change last time but never got around to it.
The podcast website AE35 has also stalled, I have done 6 or so pod casts and then things happed and well, I am making excuses for why it just has not moved forward, one of the reasons has to be me being lazy I guess. The other is time again, always a good excuses I think or not.
One of the great things about the pod casts is that some how or other it has been found by the odd brave sole and downloaded! Yes I know quite what thay made of all of it I just don't know.
The Dirk Maggs website is up to date, as he has not produced any new work for a while I have no backlog of updates to do to the site, which is nice.
The DMP 2 wiki website has had a bit of a redesign so it has very little content, but lots of backroom stuff has been done to it, but just like an iceberg you the user can't see the effort that has gone on.
The DMP wiki website has been frozen while we look to see if DMP 2 is going to work, if it does then the content form DMP will transfer to DMP 2.
So that's the update as to how things are at this time, as summer is now almost over( if it ever started here in England) I could get some free time soon and get some of these projects moving.
The Dirk Maggs books has not got any further along in its editing and the problem with the indexes still needs to be sorted one way or another. I just have not had several clear hours in which to work on the book. One problem is that after all this time of not looking at it, you forget things that are in it and also the things that you wanted to change last time but never got around to it.
The podcast website AE35 has also stalled, I have done 6 or so pod casts and then things happed and well, I am making excuses for why it just has not moved forward, one of the reasons has to be me being lazy I guess. The other is time again, always a good excuses I think or not.
One of the great things about the pod casts is that some how or other it has been found by the odd brave sole and downloaded! Yes I know quite what thay made of all of it I just don't know.
The Dirk Maggs website is up to date, as he has not produced any new work for a while I have no backlog of updates to do to the site, which is nice.
The DMP 2 wiki website has had a bit of a redesign so it has very little content, but lots of backroom stuff has been done to it, but just like an iceberg you the user can't see the effort that has gone on.
The DMP wiki website has been frozen while we look to see if DMP 2 is going to work, if it does then the content form DMP will transfer to DMP 2.
So that's the update as to how things are at this time, as summer is now almost over( if it ever started here in England) I could get some free time soon and get some of these projects moving.
08 September, 2008
03 September, 2008
Chrome
So here I am using Google Chrome so far its great.The only thing is has Google tracked how fast people started to search for info on chrome
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