Ricochet days.
Jun. 14th, 2009 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaFUD about Ogg Theora appears endemic, particularly from Google (of all people). Here's the full technical rebuttal.
Backward compatibility is generally good. But some is just a bit more backward than others.
NotN: New mobile phone directory launches; Human anatomy remains mystery to MPs; Iranian election: Mission accomplished.
Down the Pembury with arkady to meet up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
maxcelcat and woosang. Woosang got a good pic of me. Freda held out for longer than expected and we had three rather nice pints of Bear Ass.
James Ray's Gangwar are really rather good. James Ray is an old Andrew Eldritch crony; Gangwar are what Sisters of Mercy would have sounded like had Eldritch not disappeared up his own nose. I'm amazed I'd pretty much never heard of them in Australia.
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Date: 2009-06-15 10:45 am (UTC)I don't think that much. All of the albums were released on CD and some were CD only. No albums were vinyl only though it may be some of the singles were.
In fact the first album "A new kind of Assassin" by James Ray and the Performance was the first CD I ever owned -- didn't actually have a CD player to play it but since it was pretty damned hard to obtain in any shop in Yorkshire and I never saw a vinyl copy I bought it on CD in the assumption that (a) someone could make me a tape and (b) I'd own a CD player one day.
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Date: 2009-06-15 10:48 am (UTC)The Gangwar 12" aren't on vinyl as far as I know, and I suspect much of the Performance scraps were.
I have "A New Kind of Assassin". It's all kinds of great, but it's far from a comprehensive collection of his tunes, and it also lacks a song called "A New Kind of Assassin" which, if memory serves, is most easily available on Mercer's first collection.
My memory could be faulty.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:01 am (UTC)