I am most gratified by a few comments on the Newsgroup that my efforts to devise a small digest of the past week's highlights
are being appreciated. so here I go again
Highlights week March 12th to 18th 2004
CORFID
young newbie Shazia
started what is becoming an interesting topic at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002097.html
by asking after hearing the Auctioneer
"do some Lightfoot songs make you LAUGH (instead of getting watery-eyed, for example)?"
She had earlier set female hearts flutterring by archly asking at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002098.html
"The question is: in his prime (whatever that was), how did you feel about Gordon's looks, aside from his music? The choices
are below"
This has certainly caused some confusion for male corfidants!!!
Shazia also been seeking advice (as a new collector of Gord albums) on what to buy next. I always recommend getting the United
Artists five original albums.As this is a recurrent topic on corfid I did some extensive research on the various ways to
obtain those albums and produced an illustrated guide at:=
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002090.html
"knightmoves" (niveknavillus)
provocably asked for reaction to his motion that
"GL and Folk fading into history forgotten???" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002099.html
An excited Gaby reported on a positive response she had received from Linus to her enquiry "about the worldwide release of
Harmony and pre-ordering." which revealed their plans to
"let fans pre-order by only two weeks in advance. It will be on
www.mymusic.com" http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002100.html
that one item alone IMHO made reading corfid last week most worthwhile!!
Meanwhile for lighter relief on the small talk forum
A topic on what Canadians think of the corfid site led to a search for a few missing regulars in particular Georgian DMD3
(Dunkin Douglas)
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000299.html
Florian showed by adding a feature on Harmony welcome evidence that he was still involved with his creation
and now a peek at the NEWSGROUP
The week's most intriguing incident was undoubtedly an upset that occurred in a thread:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&...roup%3Dalt.mus ic.lightfoot
that was basically discussing the attempts by itunes to eliminate piracy of the harmony preview
This led to the reapearance as a poster by one-time LighTfoot website pioneer Matthew Fifer. Unfortunately he chose to comment
curmudgeonally on a typical rant by frequent poster Ed Mullen and was in turn accused by Newsgroupers who had were obviously
unaware of Matthew's valuable past contribution to the wealth of internet Lightfoot resources of being troll who threw "a moodie" it also revealed that at the time of posting one could select ""X-No-Archive" header instruction" and Google then would not display your posting as was the case with two of Ed's postings. Not at all helpful in trying to follow the thread.
I thought this a good opportunity to air at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...ing.google.com
a few of my pet peeves mainly bad design exmples but I learned that
"In America, the person calling does not pay extra to reach a mobile.
The extra cost (if any) is borne by the mobile phone receiving the call."
This as with the fact that in America you switch a light switch on upwards is the exact opposite of what I was used to in
England. Regarding cell/mobile phone charges my wife says this depends on the particular plan you are on.
On the other hand a true troll trying not too hard to be invisible suggested that Gord's surgery might have had a
"dysfunction" (sic-very sick) side effect. this unneccessary posting drew the correct "ignore" response
And so to the unsatisfactory situation with the chat room
Rik's chat room is still not accessible either through the browser link or mIRC at cjb.net although as reported last week
it can be entered via mIRC using the alternative IRC server EF.net
last week I said we would try the alternative Bravenet room that Rik currently has a link to on his site
and I joined Bill Hall and Gary Sprang there for a while,
But no matter what we tried we were unable to get access from Susan's computer (on a different ISP and phone line)
trying with Internet Explorer the Java applet refused to load and switching to Netscape produced the same really stupid
"upgrade required to your Windows Virtual Machine" advice that plagued us when we tried to use the alternative Yahoo Group
chat room a while back.
I later upgraded her I.E. to version 6 but still the applet refuses to open.I got side tracked this week so failed to contact
Cathy's son who knows about mIRC to see if he could find a way to set up mIRC to access the bravenet room (searches of both
bravenet and mIRC help were unhelpful and a google search gave no useful results.So where does that leave us??
Bravenet is clearly not acessible by everybody (I suspect others had the same problem as Susan last Friday). Ideally we could use Rik's original room or a replacement and access via mIRC but despite strenuous cajoling by Rik in 1999/2000 and me in my adverts for well over year too few potential chatters seem prepared to take the small amount of trouble to acquire then set up mIRC. So for tonight I propose that anyone interested meet in the bravenet room at 9pm EST at:-
http://pub41.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/3487845653
If only a few turn up I will get round to contacting Cathy's son. Failing a workable answer there I will amend my mIRC
instruction page to add how to change from the existing cjb.net to EF.net and then plan on using that next week.
if anybody reading this has any comments or better ideas please say so either here or to me by e-mail to
fowlesjohn@hotmail.com
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