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Remote Control Cubase with Touch OSC

Do you have an iPad / iPhone or Android device and do you want to use it as a wireless remote controller for Cubase / Nuendo? If the answer is “Yes!”… Here’s how. First of all I should mention a few things: This is not really anything new to the tech-heads out there and is certainly not the only [...]
No Pain No Gain

The Big Fun Run

A little while ago I decided that as I have been running quite regularly these days, I would have a go at doing my first Big Fun Run and see if I could raise a bit of money for Saint Gemma’s Hospice. The run took place at Roundhay Park, Leeds. An area where I spent many a day of my childhood – [...]
Mmmm Cold Beer

Wind Calm and Human Performance

Finally, good weather and finances permitted me to get over to Sherburn today to get some flying done. It was one of those very rare days when the weather forecast says “Wind = CALM”. Which means, as it says, there was little or no significant wind – at least from the surface to where I was flying [...]
Salmon Fillets

The Price of Fitness

Fitness and diet – Something I haven’t really written about before (and probably won’t again) but here’s a little story for you: Around Christmas time, like many of us, the result of some rather indulgent meals and lack of exercise prompted me to weigh myself for the first time in years. The [...]
Phil at the Landmark

Thailand – Septemeber 2009

Sawas dee khab! Riffs & Rays short tour of Thailand, September 2009. Any attempt to fit the whole trip into a blog like this would be futile. Also many of the really good parts are unpublishable or forgotten and the really really good parts are probably both. I have now calculated with the aid of 2 [...]
Mum & Son

That Was a Tough One

Long time no blog… I promised for my own safety (and the reader’s) that I would not write anything over the past few months. Mum’s illness (cancer) got much worse in May and after some time in St. Gemma’s, she finally passed away on July 1st, 2009. Here’s a picture of us from early June. We had [...]
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