I am Ashley Elsdon

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Author: ashleyelsdon

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Considering going to WOMAD this year

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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.

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What started me thinking about it was listening to this box set from last year, which has got some excellent tracks on it.

The final book in the Enemy series is coming … in October 

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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 found this funny, but no one else will

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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.

So when will there be a Pebble IFTTT channel?

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Now that would be super useful. I’m sure that it was promised a long time ago, possibly when the first Pebble watch came out, but it never really happened. Well, it didn’t happen at all.

The nearest thing to it is an app called This Button for Pebble, which allows an HTTP push from your Pebble. That’s really useful, but I’ve only been able to get it to work intermittently so far. Perhaps I need to persevere with it.

Of course, a real IFTTT channel would be better. Ideally for me it would have:

  • Battery status
  • Accelerometer function
  • Access to buttons
  • Access to the microphone

That lot would do for a start anyway. That would be fun to play with and create recipes with on IFTTT. I’d like to see that.

I wonder if it’ll come about?

Sounds of our Shores: Sounds of our Shores

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This is a great idea in my opinion. It is a collaboration between the British Library, the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland and audioBoom Ltd to create an archive of recordings of the seaside. It’s a wonderful idea and I’m hoping to get to submit some stuff for it at some point this year.