First impressions: Eno / Hyde – Someday World

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I suppose I didn’t know what to expect when I listened to this. I like Eno’s work and his last few albums have been very good and well worth listening to. So when Someday World started to play I wondered why I was listening to what sounded like a load of 1980’s synth brass.

However, after the first few minutes it became obvious that this was going to be a very good album with some great tracks on it. I’ve only listened once, but that once through was very enjoyable indeed.

Definitely time for another listen, or two, or three …

Ightham Mote

This is such a lovely place to visit on a nice bank holiday. I’m not sure there could have been anything better yesterday.

IFTTT comes to Android, and what I’d like to see next

Well it had to happen sooner or later. They’d done the iOS app, the iPad version, Android is the obvious next stop on the route. But I think they did it right. Adding a whole bunch of Android only functionality into the delivery. I thought that was a really nice touch.

Of course, on the day they launched their app didn’t support the 7″ tablet, so it wouldn’t install on my nexus, but it didn’t take long to fix at all which was impressive. I haven’t really had a chance to test out the Android only channels and functionality. Hopefully late this week or early next I might be able to do that, but what I’ve seen so far looks pretty impressive and should allow some interesting cross platform working to occur.

IFTTT have made themselves completely indispensable when it comes to web automation, I do wonder where they’ll go next though. They’ve added so many apps that their service is really comprehensive now, but what I’d really like to see is some improvement in some of the core services, like the simple ability to add multiple accounts for a service under a single IFTTT account.

All I’d like to be able to do is to add more than one twitter account in IFTTT. That would make it so much more useful. I expect that they will do this at some point, perhaps with some kind of ‘pro’ account feature.

I’d pay for that.

Molecule notebook

My molecule book

Found this today and wondered what I should do with it. I can’t bring myself to use it as I think that there are probably very few of these in the world. So, what should I do with it? Use it? Keep it safe somewhere?

I’m not sure really, but I can’t get rid of it. That’s for sure.

Fennesz – Bécs

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I have been looking forward to this for a while. A new Fennesz album is something to be enjoyed slowly. I’ve barely listened to it once so far and already I can say that it has great range. There’s some deeply moving material in there and I’ve enjoyed the album. Perhaps not as much as Black Sea, which is a personal favourite, but it’s early so far and I need to let this album settle and get used to it.

One thing that it reminds me, is that listening takes time, requires depth, concentration and perseverance. It doesn’t come quickly, but the wait, the effort, is always worth it. Especially with Fennesz.