Rainy days and CSS codes

I am currently in rainy Cornwall, accompanied by Deal or No Deal, with a massive list of things to blog about, I am on someone else's computer, which means a computer that actually WORKS, which increases the chances of all topics on such a list surfacing.

I have spent the last number of hours playing with MySpace 2.0. I thought I'd take advantage of the working computer and sort it out, and I am quite proud of myself, not that I managed any of the codes myself, they were of course all stolen from various other sites, and the edit playlist option doesn't seem to be working at the moment (which was really the main reason I decided to do it), but my MySpazz is indeed looking, not exceptionally fancy in any sense, but rather spiffing nonetheless.

Check-Ch-Check-Check-Check it out.

In other un-music related stuff:

TELETEXT ARE DISAPPEARING!!!!!!!!!
This may perhaps seem like an odd thing to mention, however, I know lots of useless facts about Teletext (the analogue version, obviously, who wants digital Teletext), for example, one of my personal favourite things, they have a "reveal a picture a day" advent calendar at Christmas, alongside numerous other things for which my housemates seem to take great pleasure in laughing at me because of this 'knowledge'.
RIP Teletext, you will be sorely missed.

On a more cheery note:




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I've decided I should have a regular 'new additions to my MYSpace' feature on this here blog

And so here is the first.

I have a bit of a habit of letting my MySpace friend requests build up...
So today I decided to have a bit of trawl through and a clear out.

I like to consider this part of MySpace as my own little A&R department, of my record label that exists in my mind.
Who is worthy of my online friendship? Who isn't?
Who 'has the potential'? Who should give up and find a real job?

One thing I will say, as a matter of 'this is what I have learnt at college/uni' and also from a general 'I am an internet user and consumer of music' perspective, if you are a band, and have a MySpace page, PLEASE do not overload it with:

• Embedded videos,
• Silly backgrounds,
  
• Pictures that stretch the page
• Rubbish font which you can't read,
• Bios which are far too long, trust me, people DO NOT read them,
• Songs with ridiculously long intros, this is BORING.
  

• Also, add a nice little personal message, s'all about the brownie points schweetie ;)
  

Taking my not-exactly-expert-but-arrogant-nonetheless advice WILL mean people are more inclined to look at you page.

Ahem.
Rant over.

And now, for those who made it through my elimination process:

Boy Crisis - made me dance in my seat. There's some nices noises in these tracks. Their profile pic is GROTTY. The background did make me a bit dizzy though.

The Areola Treat - Spot the Yeah Yeah Yeahs influence... Still, who am I to argue with dirty, girl-fronted rock and roll?

All Leather - This is just pure noisey filth. Noisey filth which makes me quite happy.


There are still a few, trapped in friend request limbo which as of yet I'm unsure of as well.
Which probably means I'll get bored of them being there and delete them in a few days in a "well, they're not going to have magically become AMAZING in a matter of a few days" mentality...

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