Stuart Herbert

… because I’ve been having too much fun playing with the v2 firmware upgrade for Line 6’s excellent Pod XT. I also picked up the additional amp packs, giving me 72 different amp models to enjoy. I picked up the songbook to St Anger this lunchtime (never been very good at learning music by ear), which gives me a nice excuse to crank up the volume over the weekend.

The Behringer DEQ unit I bought a couple of months back has been retired for the moment, until I find which machine the Delta/66 card has ended up in. I’ll have to make do with recording off the XT’s USB port for now, until I can hook the EQ unit up to the Delta/66’s A2D.

At some point, I really should make the time to record something. The last sizable bout of recording I did was back in 97. There again, the last gig I did was in May 92, and the less said about that the better.

All I want now is to upgrade my aging Roland GR-30, get an S/S/81 set of pickups for the Fat Strat (and maybe another set for the Charvel), and I’m in hog heaven.

Rob H - if you’re reading this - you still owe me that demo (Btw, he has a genuine Gibson SG, which I’m very jealous about)

… and so far doesn’t seem to have caused any problems.

The new Security Center has a little room for improvement, though. I have a security alert icon wasting space in my System Tray (at least, I assume it’s not supposed to be there when there are no security warnings) because I won’t let Windows XP automatically install updates from Windows Update and because the new anti-virus monitoring won’t talk to Norton Anti-Virus 2004 yet.

Still, the machine feels a little faster, which is always nice for free