Well I've got a good excuse for being a bit mardy, but I know what you mean. Maybe it's the thrill of the Aero's being on tour again making us a bit edgy. Besides postings that seem to be turning into arguments seem to start from misunderstanding and always resolve quickly.
A couple of bands who's mailing lists I was on have made me a 'friend' by inviting me to be added to their myspace thingy (lots of thingys on or in computers I notice). I'm sure 16 year olds can be avoided, simply by writing in english instead of emoticonese.
Gonna work out now if there's another gig I can get to.
Nigel
>Oh, Lordy.
>
>I've not been contributing much lately and as a result I've just sat
>down and waded through the accumulated 70-odd emails. I've noticed
>two things.
>
>1. Tension. Can something which brings extra publicity to our
>favourite band be so terrible? I hardly feel qualified to comment,
>since I have no idea what MySpace is or what it does. I have
>followed the link to a website but I'm none the wiser. Still, if
>Lisa's setting up what sounds very much like a website dedicated to
>the Aeros, well that's great. Isn't it? Well done, Lisa! I think.
>
>2. Technology. "MySpace". "Torrent". "MP3". "Copy
Protection".
>"Creative Labs Zen". What a strange and terrifying world we live
>in. I wonder what it all means. When did I get that old? Still, I
>understand enough to know that when I read the bitter comments from
>a customer on the Amazon website about copy protection it was enough
>to put me off of buying Swagger for the moment. Anything that makes
>life difficult is not worth bothering with. It's hard enough for me
>to keep up with all this tech as it is.
>
>Right, that's me back in my box for a spell.
>
