Oh, and in other news I’ve recently been reliving my Spectrum days and playing Head Over Heels, which I found over at Retrospec.  Their implementation of rent a car bulgariaManic Miner is also very good.

So, there’s now a new source of gas in the house:

Because of which, updates might appear on this blog even more rarely than my usual less than prolific rate.  I’ll leave you with this thought about hearing development that occurred to Derek and I whilst we enjoyed beer and take-away curry in James’ honour.  Isn’t transposition weird?  That you can recognise the same melody even if it’s played a fourth or whatever away from where you’d usually hear it, yet obviously the individual notes are different.  As Derek said, a person who has perfect pitch won’t hear them as the same, yet the rest of us probably won’t notice the change.  Is it the same as seeing the same pattern in different colours?  Different frequencies of information (sound, light), yet the relative changes within the information are the same.  Is change more important than absolute values in perception?  To add to the confusion pitch is on a log scale, so doubling the frequency raises the note an octave.

In other news, I’m working on a whole new series of baby music collections called “Baby loves Bob”.  So far I’ve trialled Messrs Marley, Johnson and Cray with some success, though I’m thinking Bob Plant might be a bit of a shock to his tiny ears.