today LittleCatgut.com went online. i’ve stuck to HTML; table as frames – all very old-school standards – no 2.0 crap for this little site. its a sturdy ‘website’ in the long tradition of band homepages. plent of room to grow, and I really hope our friend does well with this venture.

there’s a fine ‘listen’ section, which uses a great free php-player (FlamPlayer), track-listings are in place and the ‘buy’ pages are operational Lord Vader, and I’m really happy about Paypal’s “Buy it Now” system which requires no up-front commitment or long term planning in terms of scale; on-the-fly editing is possible with a few tweaks on the page that delivers punters to payment… no running back to Paypal to authorize changes.

we bypassed the whole cart system that had in the past caused considerable ’scope-creep’ with previous site builds. i’ve just learned that selling in 1’s and 2’s does NOT require any level of eMerchant-ing, php-carts and all that.

sadly Paypal take an unfair cut in my opinion (1.9% to 2.9% + 20p) on every sale – although not shocking I should have thought the amount of money paypal have already made from eBay sales (if you accept money via Paypal it costs you, if you send money to a bank account it costs you) should balance out any security costs involved in this p.r. ritch Website Payment sector… with our integration of Paypal on Catgut Music .com they are pretty much getting the only ad on the entire webpage (links don’t count!).

There is a Terminal hack I’ve been looking for, for a good long while. It is a UNIX command that allows you to tell your Mac to bump an individual app’s priority in the process list. I don’t know the actual Technical way to put it… but Adam Curry once (in the early DSC days) mentioned he’d found out how to do this and was utilising this hack when recording his Podcast, so every other application had to get in line behind his recording suite.

In Windows XP, you can do this by CMD-ALT-DEL-ing and then right clicking the application name, and setting Priority: High, Low, Realtime. I’m having no luck with the search engine’s because I don’t know how to word this process. Maybe I’ll e-mail Captain Curry (hmm, certainly Private Pilot Curry, he’s a priest too- indeed) he’ll know how to bump my sluggish iPhoto into something more useable (trying to make a book for the first time).

btw. i’m obviously hoping mr. C will find this himself via Technorati and leave a comment, or mail me the answer as my e-mail has as much chance as our olde Podcast being stuck on the iTunes Store’s front page. by the way, doesn’t the PodShow network look snazzy, almost worth making another podcast to go along with this pretty page. ;-)

This is all down to that Jamie Oliver. Well I don’t like him or what he stands for – he is forcing our kids to be more picky about their food. #

– Sam Walker
What the hell is wrong with these parents? I mean, do I really have to say anything more, do any of us. Why do we have to point out that something is not right here.

Regarding that “we don’t like them Jamie Olver’s down eer” remark, these mothers obviously don’t want little Johnny comming home and demanding Pastrami spiced Yogurt, served with shaved thin with pickled ginger, wasabi and citrus flaboured soy milk beans. because all they know is 200′ for 20mins, that’s chips, pizz, fish-fingers… how to cook shite basically. Ugg.

Talked to Billy last night. Both he and Stephen are well, they’re in Montrrey, North-East Mexico. Staying with a friend-of-a-friend for free in a wee back-room for the next 2 months, or so.

Billy’s days involve learning spanish (”until my head hurts”) and looking for jobs, Knighter says Bill’s his bitch and does the food (mainly cookies & pasta, he hasn’t started cooking the good Mexican stuff). They are looking for jobs right now – although he didn’t really go into this. Billy’s also keeping a journal, he writes an entry every morning.

Stephen was pick-pocket-ed while in the taking a slash, someone nabbed his wallet out his back pocket. Lost two credit cards, driving license and some dinéro. So no knife fights or whatever that I had imagined. Apart from that wee incident everything is coo’ and all.

Check out Billy’s Flickr.