technology and audio matters

I must say I hate heights , but I’ve tried to conquer my fears and visited the new tree top walk at Kew Gardens. It only openened last weekend so one of the first. It’s some 60 feet, (18m) above the ground so you don’t really wan’t to fall. It wobbles a tiny bit and the gang way has holes so you can sort of see down. Still it seems reasonably secure A few pics. from my Panasonic TZ1. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2008/05/23/garden-kew-walkway123.xml

Just picked up this Sony Mini disk recorder at a local boot sale.  Must say I’ve never owned one until now. Wow the sound , it’s fantastic compared to the mp3’s I tend to listen to on the move. A learned colleague points out the ATRAC represents a 5 to 1 compression ratio as opposed to 12 to 1 on mp3. I guess it’s opened my ears to what’s possible in a portable music player. Of course it’s all a bit clunky by modern standards. I need to check out a high capacity portable disk player and some flac recordings. Role on the lottery winnings Still these mini disk player/recorders can be picked up cheap on dare I say ebay and the like. Check it out!

At last an excuse to publish a couple of my photos of Boris He visited Kingston some months ago. I just happened to have my Panasonic TZ1 with me!

Just had some brilliant help from the folks Reciva. Their the people that designed the core internet radio used within the product.  They assisted me in getting my out of warranty Logik IR100 radio working again in spite of the fact that they don’t deal directly with the hardware. Now all I’ve got to do is get Virgin to sort my broadband out and I’ll able to listen to Dinner Jazz Excursion without dropout!

Thanks once again to Reciva (www.reciva.com)