Ok, so, things I will blog about today (I have been saving up quite a list):

* Seeing Adam Buxton doing BUG
* X-fire now counts how long you play Farmville for?!?
* I have a (sort of) new PC

Right, then, item no. 1. I went to see Adam Buxton (from Adam and Joe) doing BUG at the Phoenix Arts on Thursday 11th February. It was brilliant! BUG is a really interesting idea. Basically, it's a night of music videos with talking inbetween. Also, in this instance, it included Adam Buxton singing a song about Sushi. Hooray!

I don't think I'd seen any of the videos he showed. It's hard to pick a favourite. 'Sour' is a cool Japanese one, must have taken incredible organisation to work it out. It's all done with webcams. Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. is funny - if I had to imagine how that sort of music was made then I might have imagined this..? Probably not, but hey. Spinning heads! Hmm, maybe this one by NASA? It sends shivers down my spine.

The thing that made it particularly hilarious was the YouTube comments. He presented them in a really geeky way. He'd made an image with layers on his Mac and was gradually clicking them so they displayed. Some people are really mental. :)

(I mean the people who left YouTube comments, not Mr Buxton for presenting the comments in this way!)

Hmm, so, item no. 2. I noticed that you can now download a X-Fire toolbar that will keep track of how long you play web games... How many people out there are going to be brave and keep track of the time they spend playing Farmville? (And is it sadder to have spent ages playing that than WoW?!)

And onto item no. 3. Rob has built himself a new PC, so I have inherited his old one. The only bit that's from my old PC is the CD-drive. The only brand new bit is the shiny white case. Oh, and Windows 7, which I have to admit I really like. :)

It's a quad core pentium, all in all much quicker than my old PC, which was driving me mad when I tried to do processor intensive things. I miss my old PC though, I'd become rather attached to it, in the way that I do get attached to PCs and other gadgets.

The big down side to having a new PC is that I have ended up spending hours and hours sorting out my over 9,000 songs to get them to work in iTunes again. I copied my library across, thinking that that would work (it did before), and it almost did. But it couldn't find a few hundred things so I fiddled around and it ended up with thousands of duplicates (shouldn't trust automated processes!). Following that I wiped it and tried making a new library. That almost worked except for now hundreds of MP3s didn't have all their information - the tags were right on the files but it wasn't sucking the names, albums etc into iTunes correctly. In the end I had to re-copy the songs that weren't working from the backup onto my PC and then reimport them into iTunes. Took ages. I was very grumpy by the end of yesterday. But it's working now, I think. I've lost some playlists and stuff but I guess I'll survive...

That's pretty much it for now!

posted by Fiery Fred @ 3:15 PM