Thursday, February 04, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
New Festival for 2010
Delighted to be involved with this new festival just announced for 2010 in Scotland
SOLAS Festival is the name, born out of thePROJECT and Greenbelt inspired, its happening in Wiston, Biggar on 25-27th June 2010
Get on yer wellies!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A song for Palestine
Soooo.... me starts something (Adventures in Technology...) and it lasts a week or so, and I get bored with it... same old same old!
But instead I have been working with Logic Studio on me dear black macbook, with some result!
Very much a work in progress but here is a song called (Please) Cross The Line.... (Palestine)
A culmination of memories feelings and hopes from my trip to Palestine with the greenbelt 21 a year gone October, and much more....
Here are the lyrics:
Hope
Is a place
Far away, far away
Fear is a place
Close to home
Closer to home
First, take a step
Cross the road
To the unknown
Fear won't fulfil you
What hurts you, just might kill you
You'll cross a line
Palestine
I got over myself
With a breath
And some help....
I walked to the wall
Prayed it would fall
Wrote your name on a picture
All could see
Galilee... down the road...
Temples and cathedrals everywhere
Set in stone
Stone
Living Stones
Skin and Bone
Holy Holy Holy
Bullets holy, holy
Fire, 'cross the line
Palestine
I, I know you were here
'Cos I was there
I stood in your garden
In the bulldozer tracks
The bulldozer tracks
In the bulldozer tracks...
Ancient Olive trees
Summoning me
Please, cross the line
Please, cross the line
Please cross the line
Israel Palestine
Please cross the line...
Palestine.
Palestine....
But instead I have been working with Logic Studio on me dear black macbook, with some result!
Very much a work in progress but here is a song called (Please) Cross The Line.... (Palestine)
A culmination of memories feelings and hopes from my trip to Palestine with the greenbelt 21 a year gone October, and much more....
Here are the lyrics:
Hope
Is a place
Far away, far away
Fear is a place
Close to home
Closer to home
First, take a step
Cross the road
To the unknown
Fear won't fulfil you
What hurts you, just might kill you
You'll cross a line
Palestine
I got over myself
With a breath
And some help....
I walked to the wall
Prayed it would fall
Wrote your name on a picture
All could see
Galilee... down the road...
Temples and cathedrals everywhere
Set in stone
Stone
Living Stones
Skin and Bone
Holy Holy Holy
Bullets holy, holy
Fire, 'cross the line
Palestine
I, I know you were here
'Cos I was there
I stood in your garden
In the bulldozer tracks
The bulldozer tracks
In the bulldozer tracks...
Ancient Olive trees
Summoning me
Please, cross the line
Please, cross the line
Please cross the line
Israel Palestine
Please cross the line...
Palestine.
Palestine....
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Edge
The Edge talking to Dave Fanning on Saturday about his new movie It Might Get Loud - (which is great btw!), and about the upcoming U2010 tour and the song the band just recorded for Haiti appeal
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Adventures in Technology... Part 7
How To Back Up Your Blog... Alternative Method
(or how to back up any website and view it offline)
Sitesucker
Free, download it, tweek it to grab the pages you want to copy to your hard drive, and off you go...
Saves the pages complete with images and links et al.
happy d/loading.....
(or how to back up any website and view it offline)
Sitesucker
Free, download it, tweek it to grab the pages you want to copy to your hard drive, and off you go...
Saves the pages complete with images and links et al.
happy d/loading.....
Friday, January 15, 2010
Adventures in Technology... Part 6
How to Back Up Your Blogger.com Blog
This is the easy method, a couple of clicks and you can back up your entire blog into a .xml file
It also backs up your template, so if the worst happens and you lose your blogger.com blog for some reason, then you can start a new one, and them import the saved .xml file back into there with a few clicks....
Log in to your blogger account and go to 'Settings', the 'Basic'
You will see the 3 choices appear : Import Blog / Export Blog / Delete Blog
Choose 'Export Blog'
Click the 'Download Blog' tab, and save to your desired location...
This is an xml file, I tried to find a simple xml viewer / editor for mac, but short answer is there isn't one..... unless you are aux fait with editing .xml files then no need to bother really, as should you ever need to restore all the files contained within the .xml file, you simply need to just create a new blogger.com page and follow this same process, and instead of "Export Blog', you choose 'Import Blog' tab, and upload the .xml file there.
You can also use this method to export your entire blog over to Wordpress, which I might have a look at myself......
Bon Appetite!
This is the easy method, a couple of clicks and you can back up your entire blog into a .xml file
It also backs up your template, so if the worst happens and you lose your blogger.com blog for some reason, then you can start a new one, and them import the saved .xml file back into there with a few clicks....
Log in to your blogger account and go to 'Settings', the 'Basic'
You will see the 3 choices appear : Import Blog / Export Blog / Delete Blog
Choose 'Export Blog'
Click the 'Download Blog' tab, and save to your desired location...
This is an xml file, I tried to find a simple xml viewer / editor for mac, but short answer is there isn't one..... unless you are aux fait with editing .xml files then no need to bother really, as should you ever need to restore all the files contained within the .xml file, you simply need to just create a new blogger.com page and follow this same process, and instead of "Export Blog', you choose 'Import Blog' tab, and upload the .xml file there.
You can also use this method to export your entire blog over to Wordpress, which I might have a look at myself......
Bon Appetite!
Adventures in Technology... Part 5
How to embed an MP3 on your blog
2 steps:
First you need to have your mp3 hosted somewhere on the web (skip this step if the file is already hosted somewhere)
Go Here
Upload your mp3
Note / copy the web address of the newly hosted file
Step 2 :
copy this code :
You just have to replace [MP3 file address] with the actual address.
(replace the [MP3 file address] with the actual web address of where the mp3 is hosted - you must use the HOTLINK web address provided there...)
Step 3 :
Go to the 'edit html' part of your blog composition page, and simply paste the embed code above somewhere in there.
This is what you should end up with....
Bon Appetite!
2 steps:
First you need to have your mp3 hosted somewhere on the web (skip this step if the file is already hosted somewhere)
Go Here
Upload your mp3
Note / copy the web address of the newly hosted file
Step 2 :
copy this code :
You just have to replace [MP3 file address] with the actual address.
(replace the [MP3 file address] with the actual web address of where the mp3 is hosted - you must use the HOTLINK web address provided there...)
Step 3 :
Go to the 'edit html' part of your blog composition page, and simply paste the embed code above somewhere in there.
This is what you should end up with....
Bon Appetite!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Adventures in Technology... Part 4
iPlayer Grabber
Staying with the theme of media, telly and radio in this case from the BBC....
the BBC iplayer is a great innovation, but has the downside of making your downloaded files vanish after a few days, and they are not downloaded in a very user friendly manner.
In an attempt to rectify this, some clever chap invented this very useful app for the Mac
Just how they should be.
All the instructions are there on the weblink, so no need for me to repeat, other than to say...
Happy downloading!
Staying with the theme of media, telly and radio in this case from the BBC....
the BBC iplayer is a great innovation, but has the downside of making your downloaded files vanish after a few days, and they are not downloaded in a very user friendly manner.
In an attempt to rectify this, some clever chap invented this very useful app for the Mac
iPlayer Grabber, the iPlayer downloader for Mac OS X
DOes what it says on the tin, allows you to grab BBC telly and radio shows in mp4 and mp3 versions that are DRM free.Just how they should be.
All the instructions are there on the weblink, so no need for me to repeat, other than to say...
Happy downloading!
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