Dave’s Blog

I recorded Barbara when she destroyed the CDMA and have finally converted it from the 3gp format (gah that’s another post!).  Enjoy.

Our Alexandrine parrot, Barbara, died today.  We’ve been keeping her inside at night while it’s been cold, however when I went to get her out of her cage this morning, she had fallen off the perch and was lying on the cage floor.  We took her up to Greencross Vets in Wishart (above Pet city) to [...]

For anyother musician out there, I found some really good metronome software for PC today (sourceforge of course) http://sourceforge.net/projects/fireseedone/ I had been looking for it for a while to help with my guitar practice and this suits nicely.

Here’s the band poster we made up.  We took the Photo at Wes’s house on his golf green.  The camera was on a stand on a timer, and Tim ran around quickly and got in position. Dom Poster (Large) 

“Duty of Man” has another gig now as a headline act at the new Elevate CQ festival in Rockhampton.  One of the main stage bands lost a member so we were asked to fill in! Sept 22, 12:30 we are playing and holding two workshops as well.

As you would all know, we just looooved “Don Pepe’s” when it was open, and that evening we went back to find it closed was a sad one.  It was our second wedding anniversary yesterday so I took Belinda out for dinner at our (previously) favourite restaurant now under new management, now called “Ferrone’s”. I visted [...]

Workouts getting a bit boring?  Not anymore!

Anyone else ever noticed these attached to the USB plug on new devices? Is it just me or is that not in the spirit of plug and play?

I’m about to start a transition to Linux on my laptop. That will make 1 x Linux server, 1 x Linux laptop and 1 x Windows laptop for Belinda. I have nearly every app I need for the change except for accounting software (which I’m close to finding I think, but can use on Belinda’s [...]