British Gas let me view my energy consumption as a funky graph. But I’m suspecting that it might possibly have some issues. Either that or I’m dead every other month...
Cwoor! In other news, I got my watch back, it’s now a little dusty shiny and lovely and doesn’t have scratched glass any more. Mostly had a chilled out weekend. Cooked a rather fabulous spinach and ricotta cannelloni last night which was substantially tastier than my first attempt the other week. Not sure why, but I think part of it was probably posher Waitrose chopped tomatoes On call all this week, also doing a deployment at 6am tomorrow morning. This is good as it means I get to finish at 1:30 tomorrow if I don’t take lunch. Which means I get to go home and actually do some work on Freakcity — it’s dying a bit as I’ve not had time to finish the work I started. Although on the plus side, I’ve suffered no successful sql injection attacks on the new code, so what I intended to happen has. I just hate releasing new software before it’s finished, I’m all like “look at the new shiny version!” and everyone else is like “where’s my themes? How comes half of it doesn’t work? Weren’t you going to make it better?”. Giggle. Been listening to lots of Cats in Paris thanks to "Liam":ref:ljos. Fab birthday present Also been listening to some Dirty Three — a suggestion from last.fm — who are a bit Mogwaiish and really quite fun. In a slow, melancholy and depressive way, of course. Speaking of Mogwai, their new album came out a couple of weeks back, so I’ve been listening to that rather a lot as well. That and Dave Gilmour, Live at Gdansk — somewhat poignant for two reasons, firstly, he was asked to play the Gdansk shipyard in Poland to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Soldarity, secondly, it’s the last time we’ll ever see Rick Wright playing live. Accompanied by the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, he plays a variety of music from the Floyd back catalogue as well as almost all of his solo “On an Island” album. The highlight for me is probably “Echoes”, played in its 25 minute entirety, followed by both “The Division Bell” and “A Great Day For Freedom”, the late Michael Kamen’s amazing arrangements being played live by the orchestra. I think everyone should have a live orchestra when performing. Marve