Hello, I’m going away for 3 weeks. I’ll take lots of photos to post when we get back. When we return we’re moving flat so you’ll have to come over and check it out before we start messing it up to make it nicer. Especially you lot who we haven’t seen properly for ages.

My favourite website at the moment is muxtape it’s very web 1.0, no community features or ratings or tagging or what have you, the only customisation is that you get to choose a hex colour. You just make mix tapes. Here’s mine constructed of fragments remaining on my work hard drive after I last purged the music directory.

Incidentally, whilst the casette in the image above claims to be “GREAT FOR EVERYDAY RECORDING” that’s actually a lie. I had just such a tape onto which i copied Wilmslow library’s double CD of Future Sound Of London’s preposterous ambient sound-scape Lifeforms. After only one playing the ultra thin 120min tape was already stretching.

As is traditional just before I go on holiday I’m ill at the moment. This did give me an opportunity to watch the remade Assault On Precinct 13 yesterday, pretty poor. It’s got her out of the Sopranos in it and Omar out of The Wire was in the Sopranos last night hopefully when I start Wire 4 when we get back from holiday I’ll spot someone else in it and the Markov chain will continue. Needless to say, it didn’t have the proper music…

Also, and finally, I got round to playing the new Advance Wars and by simple virtue of the fact that :

1. they’ve ditched CO powers.
2. You can skip ALL and I mean ALL speech and
3. 3. you can turn off all battlefield animations not just combat ones

it is the best in the series. I blasted through the first 15 missions in a satisfyingly swift 4 hours, blissfully unaware of whatever stupid storyline they’ve dreamed up to accompany the tactical shenanigans. Though I do still miss the biggest tank being called Medium Tank.

Rank? S!