All the screengrabs of lunatic AI answers I’m seeing on here this morning have actually made me partially convinced that at least some of them are bullshit.
A few months back my #Kobo pitched a fit and reset itself, losing my reading data for the year to that point. Not a huge issue, as for some reason I remembered that it was up to 65.2 hours.
Ever since then, I’ve had to add 65.2 to the current listed time in order to calculate my current reading time.
Anyway, I’m currently figuring out whether I can adjust the time displayed on the Kobo by editing the KoboReader.sqlite file.
So far my experiments have been unsuccessful, but I shall persevere.
It’s been brought to my attention that Incubus have re-recorded Morning View and I’m listening to it right now and am not entirely sure why.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a perfectly fine re-recording, but the original is still perfectly fine as well. And it’s been 23 years since. Not 20, not 25. 23.
Odd.
But hey ho, fair play to them for sitll rocking out.
Just had cause to remember the first radio show I presented on a community station near Southampton. This was in 2007, a month or so after I started my radio degree.
Because I had no real way of playing requests on the fly like I could now if I wanted to, I had to make sure my playlists were all backtimed and ready, then I burned them onto two CDs. Even tracks on one, odd tracks on the other.
This meant I didn’t have to cue anything because the next track was already lined up.
However, it meant that I had to be really precise when hitting the hour. I couldn’t just drop another track in if I was coming up short, because unless I could find something suitable on the playout system (and there was never anything suitable) I’d have to waffle on for several minutes to fill time. No one wants that.
Because I have to edit my playlists down now, I usually have one or two tracks that I can bounce in if my timings haven’t worked out, which has made me a bit lazier.
I even used to back time to the point that I’d make sure to hit the half hour bang on too. Hell, I had a printout that told me exactly when I should be hitting go on any given track.
I don’t bother with that anymore, and just go by feel. And to some extent it shows.
@DJDarren
Yeah, I'm already wishing for a way to tell news sites "give me all the news that isn't about uk politics".
Mind you, when I phrase it like that, that just makes it a pretty normal Thursday.
For a while there, back when I was a kid, I flirted with the idea of being a journalist. I liked the idea of writing for a living, or digging out injustices and bringing them to light for all the world to see.
Now I’m older and more jaded, I see that the best paid journalists, the ones we’re all aware of, do little more than write 500 words a week with the express intention of stoking up some culture war. They have opinions for money and never have to suffer the consequences of their words.