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Bad luck comes in threes

Posted on September 28th, 2008 by timhatcher

Well they say bad luck comes in threes and this time is nothing different

Managed to get food poising 1 day before a 12 course Chinese banquet and could not eat any of it

Fell off a ladder 2 days before going on holiday (to Marrakesh) and punctured both shins on a ladder accessory, this scuppered my entry to the Cheltenham Tri for Sun 28th also.

Night before leaving for Hols a scrote comes onto the drive and just wrenched the top of the car door out with brute force. This now turns out to be a fault claim against me ??

But all that said we were on Hols A week in Marrakesh, that felt like 2 at least. The riad was the best bit run by an English guy Peter the place as fab and the service could not be better. The souks they took some getting used to but after a few days and a hammam all was good. The traffic however that was bonkers. Felt like everything from cart, donkey, moped, car, van, lorry was all there just to run us over and pavements did not exist! (only had 2 near death experiences in 7 days)

Day trip out to the atlas mountains gave us a taste of what a trek would consist of. Think we have “done” Marrakesh now and would only go back as a stop over to the Atlas Mountains or the Sahara.

Need to calm down now and “process” the photos.

Tim

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Weekend Render

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by timhatcher

Spent all morning taking paint off the hard bit and turning this:

into

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then decided it really was rubbish render and did this:

which resulted in:

Then had to go get supplies:

Getting there:

Scratch coat done:

Watch this space …

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The family

Posted on October 14th, 2007 by timhatcher

She came back 3 generations of chow

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China town

Posted on October 14th, 2007 by timhatcher

Waiting for gran to come back.

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On the bus

Posted on October 14th, 2007 by timhatcher

On the way into town tag: london

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ID3 tags for compilation albums

Posted on October 9th, 2007 by timhatcher

Do you have the same problem that I do with MP3 s and compilation albums? WMP and the like handle them OK and they display correctly, but when you copy them to a portable device, Creative Vision M in my case, in the Artist view you end up with loads of entries all with 1 track in. How flippin annoying ?

This is all to do with ID3 tags and this is how I update them to overcome the “problem”.

In short, as long as your tags are currently all in order, this will automatically change the <title> ID3 tag to <track no><artist><title> and the <artist> tag to the same as the <album>. This will have the side effect of making any Artist display on the portable unit not displaying correctly, but this is a V small price to pay in my eyes, for grouping the tracks on the device (the title display will give you the artist however). Your choice.

The “automatically” bit here is the breakthrough, I have tried lots of software that updates tags, but this is the first that allows the update of tags based on a pattern of other tags, I am sure there are others, but I could not find them.

You might want to copy the tracks that you want to tag to a temp area to play with the software first before letting it loose on your nicely tagged tracks, just to get familiar.
Enjoy.

Download and install Multi ID3 Tag Editor (inc getting Free licence key from the same site) from:
http://stud.usv.ro/~alexbu/
Fire up MultiIDE Tag Editor.

Set Title to - %track% - %artist% - %title%
Set Artist to - %album%