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WMA to MP3
1:41pm, Monday 5 December 2005

Noted for future reference:

for i in *.wma ; do
  mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm:waveheader $i && \
  lame -m s -h audiodump.wav -o "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3"
done

What I did at the weekend
11:31am, Tuesday 6 September 2005

More fame (of a sort)... thanks to Jim McClure for publishing these pictures of what Gog Magog got up to at the weekend at Wallingford BunkFest.

Fame at last
4:19pm, Wednesday 15 June 2005

I'm going to be on the radio! Thursday 16th June, Radio 3, "Late Junction"... should be on about 11:30pm. Verity Sharp will be playing "Geld Him Lasses" and the Purcell hornpipe from Anahata and Mary's "Floating Verses".

And you thought the hurdy-gurdy was bad...
11:28pm, Thursday 5 May 2005

May I present... the Geigenwerk. Harpsichord meets hurdy-gurdy. Apparently Leonardo da Vinci came up with this idea. What on earth was he thinking?

Taking things to extremes
11:32pm, Saturday 26 March 2005

Presented without further comment: the cat-and-mouse themed hurdy-gurdy.

(OK, one comment. My reaction to this instrument is probably quite understandable, given that I commissioned mine with pretty much the minimum decoration possible!)