Stuart Herbert

Just about to head off to bed when an email came through from Line 6. After a delay of something like 18 months, they’ve finally released the Variax Workbench. If it lives up to the marketing, it allows Variax owners to create their own custom guitars via an editor running on PC or Apple Mac, and then download them to the Variax.

Unfortunately, it looks like their website has melted under the load from excited Variax owners wanting to know how much Workbench costs (Tip: don’t waste your time looking in the Line 6 online store … they haven’t added Workbench to it yet)

Still, at least it’s payday in just over a week’s time … Provided their forums aren’t full of doom and gloom, I’ll be buying a copy (and maybe a Variax Acoustic to go along with my existing original Variax).

Unless I can convince Naomi to sell me her Washburn? (Actually, I hope she never does. I’d much rather listen to her play it)

Go watch it, get it out of your system, and then (if it’s still showing in a cinema near you) go see a real work of art about the corruption of innocents by evil.

A lot of the evening has gone importing and sorting two new sets of photos from Mouldy Old Stones trips we’ve done since the start of May. Whilst I was doing that, I came across some old photos from 2003’s Beyond The Border storytelling festival. I’ve uploaded the best of these old photos into the new By The Sea gallery. Enjoy!

With Gentoo very likely to drop support for Wordpress soon, it seemed the right time to find an alternative blogging package to use. As we use b2evolution for hosting developer blogs for Gentoo, it seemed a good idea to give it a go. It took about an hour to write a script to import all my blog entries from Wordpress, and we’re up and running.

Switching to b2evolution brings with it a neat feature. Instead of having just one blog (which was aggregated on Planet Gentoo, I can now have a separate blog for Gentoo, and another one for the rest of my life. (Some of the Gentoo devs complain bitterly when non-Gentoo postings appear on Planet Gentoo. What dull lives they must lead!)

So, Dad, if you’re reading this, you can keep your eye on the Personal diary, which mean a lot more to you than my Gentoo diary.