back for a bit

Back in Poole after five days on the road from one end of the country to the other doing gigs in far flung (Dundee, Berwick, Durham) and closer to home (Weymouth) places. It's fantastic to have a day of chasing up life's paperwork, surfing the Ship, managing email and contemplating house decoration and an upcoming wedding :).

gigs again

It's gigging week again, with a stint of monitor mixing on a touring show. Last night it was Hastings, with a show in the boomy White Rock Theatre. Tonight Epsom, and tomorrow Weymouth.

hmmm...

Things I have learned this week:

Don't despair if a Citroen Pluriel's rear window assembly jams when you're getting the roof back on. Turn on the ignition to power-up the latch, lift out the assembly, re-align and try again.

A Linksys WRT54g wireless router will work with an NTL 250 cable modem. In my case a hard reset of the router followed by cloning the MAC address of the computer I used to initialise the broadband connection did the trick, followed by setting up a key for basic security.

The VCR port on a Samsung 2110c set top box seems to be an output and not an input. In any case, if your tv only has one SCART port and you want to use this VCR port on the STB to connect up a Playstation, you can then turn off the STB (there's no `AV' button that I can see), and expect the audio and video to pass through the STB and out to the telly. Well - the video comes through but not the audio. No one on the web seems to know about this either.