Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Problem with Nickel Creek

So you’re coding along to your favourite type of productivity music [this week mine is country/folk/bluegrass] and turn shuffle off.

You listen to lovely stuff like this .

What’s the problem with listening to Nickel Creek? Without fail Nickleback comes on after and it takes about three tracks to realise what’s going on..

Admit it, you’re one of them huff duffers aren’t you?

Today I huffduffed for the first time. I’ve planned to for a while…

The word Huffduffer derives from a technology called Huff-Duff [HF/DF] that was used to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. Huffduffing on the web is a way of pin-pointing interesting MP3 files.

Jeremy Keith spoke to Refresh Belfast in December and while I gave up on producing the video because it was so dark in the venue I simply forgot that I’d taken a HQ line out of the sound desk with the recording.

So here in all it’s glory is “Jeremy Keith talking about Huffduffer on Huffduffer about Huffduffer.”

Enjoy.

Band of Brothers followup: The Pacific

Seriously excited to hear recently (announced eight months ago) that HBO have been filming a follow-up mini series to Band of Brothers based in the Far East, the Pacific theatre, apparently Sky have bought the UK rights.

Can’t wait to see this:

I’ve always said that if I ever lost one of my B.O.B DVDs I would replace the set, and now that Blu-ray has come along… I probably will!

—- edit 8.6.2011 —-
I did buy the Band of Brothers Blu-ray. It’s epic. And it’s £16 on amazon