someone who's doing some things
So Apple’s new ‘Spotify killer’ service is here. I’ve decided to try it out to see how good it is. So far, I’m not sure I particularly get what all the fuss is about. However, One thing I’m not sure I quite like is the fact that everything is now in iTunes. My library and everything else all in one place. I’m not sure I’m going for that quite.
We’ll see how it goes, but for now I’m actually preferring Spotify a lot.
They’re lovely.
Interviews on cassette don’t come around very often these days. Which is a shame really as I think it’s a great format for an interview. You have to listen to it all in one go, or at least half in one go anyway. There’s no easy way to skip forward and that’s a good thing in my opinion.
This is a picture I took one of the first times I went to beyond the border and it always reminds me of that lovely story telling festival. It isn’t on this year, which is a shame, although I do realise that it is more sustainable for it to be every other year. It makes sense. But I do miss it.
Hopefully I’ll get along to it next year. It’s a long time to wait though.
This time around it took almost 5 days for my Pebble Time to get down to a 20% charge. I thought that wasn’t bad at all.
The most interesting thing was that not only did I get the nice alert to the fact that my battery was low, but also the watch face itself went red to constantly remind me.
I don’t know if all watch faces either do this, or are capable of doing this, but I think it’s a really useful feature.
I think I’ve been going for about 10 years now, so in some ways it would be a shame not to go, but the line up isn’t inspiring me this year, which is a shame. I’m thinking about it, but not convinced as yet. I may just go for the day. I’ve done that a few times before and it’s ok. Not the same as being there for the weekend, but if the weather forecast is bad then it’s a viable alternative to a damp weekend.
I’ll keep thinking about it for now.
What started me thinking about it was listening to this box set from last year, which has got some excellent tracks on it.
It’s a bit longer to wait than I’d hoped really but what can you do. I’d hoped it would be out in September, but it appears that the books is coming out on the 28th of October now. Which isn’t a big issue I guess. I just have about another 2 months to wait before it arrives.
I put this on Instagram a while back and it just tickled me. What I did was to put my Pebble watch on top of my Twine box. The Twine is set to notify my iPhone every time it’s moved, measured by vibration. However, whenever the Pebble Time gets a notification it vibrates. So, once the Pebble Time is sitting on top of the Twine Box all it needs to do is to receive a notification from my iPhone and then a chain of events is triggered. The Pebble Time vibrates. This causes the Twine to notify my iPhone of a movements (via IFTTT). The iPhone gets the notification, it’s passed on to the Pebble Time, and so the cycle repeats.
I found it quite funny, but I guess no one else will.
Which must mean that 2015 is time to go again. I think that’s only right isn’t it?
It was great the last time I went and so it’s definitely time to do this again. What else could you need? Beer, trains, a jazz band, and sausages!
I am Ashley Elsdon 