Mike Little's Journalized

I’ve just noticed that Technorati have tweaked their top 100 list to remove the Wordpress sidebar folks.
The current number 2 has just over 7,400 inbound links, yet Matt has over 9,600 and I have over 8,800 inbound links.
I guess I can’t complain… not really. After all, being linked on the default installation of Wordpress has other advantages!

Yesterday, John Peel – longest serving Radio 1 DJ and musical hero of mine – died suddenly in Peru. The BBC have several stories:

• Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies
• John Peel passes away
• Tributes pour in for DJ John Peel
• Peel’s huge impact on music

He had a huge impact on my musical tastes, introducing me to a diverse range of music. A range which I still continue to enjoy today.
Back when I used to listen to his show religiously, I was in the fortunate position of being able to help, in my own small way, promote some of the bands he championed. I worked in a record shop in the late 70’s early 80’s, and used to try to stock anything that Peel played that I liked.
I went on to get involved in working with new and independent bands firstly on stage and promoting shows, and later in studios, and working with video and early computers!

His loss to the world of music his huge. But my deepest sympathy goes out to his wife and children.

Jamie played football (or soccer to my transatlantic readers) on Tuesday for her school team. It was a hastily assembled team but they made a good effort and put on a good show.
Unfortunately they didn’t manage to win any of their matches.
I’ve put a couple of pictures up in the gallery. Clickety-click to go there.

Wordpress 1.2.1 has been released. This release addresses a few bugs and minor security issues with 1.2. .
Get it while its hot!