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Faster payments are coming according to APACS, the UK payments association. Something which I truly hope will start to call last orders for the traditional cheque system, but the biggest challenge is that people are still scared about online banking.

The only real reason I visit a bank these days is to cash a cheque in, even though HSBC have fitted out my local Branch with lots of high tech gizmo's.

KUBE over 18 months:

If like me you've not used a paper based phone book in years since a little thing called the Internet has been around, do the following:

Call the UK phone book cancellation number is 0800 833400 then option 5 then option 1.
The Yellow pages number is meant to be 0800 771444, but the number has been disconnected. So good for BT but bad Yellow pages.

Every now and then I like to see if cedega has many any advancements, since they have a mission statement to bring games to Linux, things seemed fairly positive when I last tried it since the MMORG I no longer play (eve) worked perfectly and steam worked a little better.

However as of writing Steam source games do not work, I've tried lots of combinations and I have fully compliant hardware such as a nice nvidia graphics card.

A bit of a tongue in cheek response to Google's latest software announcement as coming hot off the press to for a second create a small bit of panic within those who work on similar projects.

Through my process of adding CD's to Musicbrainz over the last month, one key requirement is that I take photos of all the CD's I'm adding. (See the Musicbrainz editing FAQ)

But this is reasonable given the controls needed to keep Musicbrainz sane, so hence I add CD's such as ...

I'm working on getting a GUI for Liquidsoap working, my main goal is to create a playout system that uses the objects available within the liquidsoap scripting language.
Last week I put the following layout design in the gimp:

After a few comments and a bit more research about what's needed from the playout system, I have produced this in pygtk:

It's a bit of an empty shell for now and there's plenty visually to work on , but the project is taking progress and something usable should be available soon.

One of the things on my to do list is to read 'Mastering Regular Expressions', of which is moving up the list but waiting for a few free days I assign to get through it.

In the meantime instead of asking friends who know regexp well, I've found http://www.txt2re.com/ , of which takes a string input and lets you generate a regexp from what output you want.

It's not elegant but it works!

I love Musicbrainz for the service they offer, but the following is happening at KUBE and I'm currently ripping everything into OGG format. So far I've got through K&L (don't ask, it was just completely random).

I'm now reflecting on the whole system, musicbrainz made the whole inputting artists a breeze, I have photos of all CD's which are semi useful but no website seems to want to take them (copyright issue etc).

I've just finished the first draft of the new messaging system for KUBE, of which takes messages from the web & sms and uses ajax to refresh the screen.

A test site is at http://www.theneb.co.uk/sms and you can send messages from http://www.theneb.co.uk/sms/receive.php .
More features to be added in the next few days, then I'll release the source for all to use.
*Attention* This is a test site, any messages sent via sms or from kuberadio.com will go to the studio.