Izdihar - Magic Kingdom Escapology

It's either very late or very early. My brain says the former, as I've not slept on this flight. I am as ever on the BMI flight from RUH to LHR, brain fried and horribly fuzzy. We're somewhere over Turkey but not yet to Istanbul - plenty of flight left… more »

In the times in between posts, I do not cease to exist, but to you guys (I like like to think of you as my public), I may as well be on another planet, or never having existed at all. But no, I still find ways to occupy my time, but not in the… more »

Since my last publication on this - Roland Boss DR-880 preset data list, the data for the instruments associated with 40 of the kits (at least one of each type) has been added to the Excel file. I've also added the bass tones used in each of the kits.… more »

Well I suppose I never said this would be quick when I posted about my attempts to map out all the necessary data for the DR-880 - Roland Boss DR-880 Preset Data List. I'm now well under way with mapping out the individual sounds used for each of the… more »

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Seems that all is still not entirely well in the Tweetosphere. Tweetdeck works, using Chrome works, bit.ly works, but not Firefox. What gives here then? Can I not have a simply Tweetorific time using my browser of choice? Apparently not. Right, I'm off… more »

Seems Twitter is getting a bit of a battering at the moment - Twitter Status - Ongoing Denial of Service Attack, which is almost certainly why the widget down at the botton right of this page has gone black. It's a bit of a bugger really as I had… more »

As far as I can tell, you're the first person to link your blog, The Daily Smoke, to izdihar.com. Hopefully you enjoy reading what I'm writing, as much as I enjoy reading yours. more »

probably too late to be writing this to be fair, so I may be brief. The last couple of days have been spent haring off down the Damman highway, either there or back. It's a drive of about 400Km each way and is pretty much as dull as dishwater. Mile… more »

I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat. After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. So I finished my pint and then noticed that… more »

I don't often set out to criticise software applications, but in IE6's case, I'm willing to make an exception. Like many others around the world, it is the default browser in the company I work for - what a piece of garbage! Whilst the company web… more »

As a start point towards beginning to create a fully specified Roland Boss DR-880 .ins file for Cakewalk Sonar, I've created an Excel spreadsheet containing the preset data from the DR-880 manual - this has taken a good few hours of my time and is… more »