elegant simplicity

Just a very quick note to let you know that the July edition of Crying to the Future, the Elegant Simplicity newsletter, has been despatched to its recipients. As ever, if you think you should have received it, check your spam folder to make sure it hasn't got caught.

Not on the list? No problem!

After 11 months of sterling work, my super-duper-take-anywhere USB dongle has, I'm afraid, died the death. One day, it was working fine, the next, nothing but delayed write errors and all manner of shenanigans

I tried it on 3 different machines: XP (2 machines) and Vista with the same result. The auto run will flash through all the files, but once you click on the drive to look at the contents, it shows up as being a blank disk and would I like to format it!

Grrr!

Now, this dongle contains all my emails, documents, web design work, programming code, photos and even some work stuff (!), so losing all that data was not an option. However, I had backed it up religiously, so I knew I had a back-up approx 4 days old, leaving only the most recent work to recover. Trouble is, because the ...

As of, well, right now, I have relocated all the sections of the Elegant Simplicity Hitstory archive to their own pages, available via the Flotsam menu.

I did this to make it easier for me to keep it updated (it will be updated soon, by the way!) and to make it easier for visitors to simply go directly to the content they want.

For some time now I have had a profile on mySpace, and for some time now I have been coming to the conclusion that it is a total waste of time!

As far as I can tell, it seems to be about numbers: how many friends one can get, and not so much about the music any more. Not that it ever was. In my case, at any rate.

So within the next 24 hours my profile will disappear into the great black hole of profile cyberspace, never to be seen again.

As far I, and many other artists are concerned, it is way better to have one's own domain and a quality shop with free music and what not than it is to try and drive sales through sites like mySpace and Facebook.

Apologies to those of you who are our 'real friends', but you already know where to come for all the latest news and tunes, an ...

The June Newsletter was sent out to subscribers last night. So far so good. However, there was a problem with my mail server, which resulted in around 150 recipients not receiving their copy. I will re-send the newsletter later tonight.

If you don't get your copy, please let me know.

Following a period of intense head scratching and testing, I am pleased to report that the half hearted reviews archive that has been here for a few months now has been replaced by a big, mean fighting machine!

Yes, the new Reviews Archive contains the original store of 144 Elegant Simplicity CD reviews from around the world, presented in an easy to use CD selection format. Using the new system, I am able to add reviews when they come in so and I will begin the task of adding the latest reviews later this week. This should bring the total in the archive to over 200.

The output of the module is very sexy, using my own custom template. Hope you like it!