No you’re not dreaming, the site has suffered a drastic makeover and update. Which is part of the reason why I haven’t been posting much for most of the month. The other reasons being: I’ve had an surge of work (paid work even, the best and most urgent kind there is! :lol: ), I’ve got totally sucked into Heroes season 1 (catching up on 23 episodes before the new season started this week - tv marathons ftw) and I’ve been working on updating this blog as well, which was a slow process due to the aforementioned bits and other things.

Finally done did it though. New design, layout and a fresh new Wordpress version too. Which I must admit is actually nice - probably the first time I’ve felt genuinely pleased with it since I’ve started updating WP. I really wasn’t happy with what had been changed in the previous 2.0x versions, but this one seems to have fixed a lot of things and added a lot of good stuff. So far anyways. Having spent the best part of 6h doing everything today my brain’s probably just too frazzled and I’ll start seeing stuff I don’t like tomorrow after some sleep (and more episodes of Heroes, yes I’m hooked).

So anyways sit back, relax and enjoy. Have a play around, there’s lots of new little nifty things added: the snap shot preview for all links, the gallery’s had a face lift, there’s a new archive page (link at the top) which is lovely and easy to use, you can now share any post on this blog easily by clickling the share this! link which will open a pop up menu giving a choice of options like digg, delicious, emailing etc…, you can also navigate posts by using the calendar or the tags cloud (which will be updated this week to include all posts) or the search function, I’ve added the Turntable Radio podcast feed, and there’s a wicked little thing at the top which you can use to scroll through all the posts on the front page. Whoo hoo for geekery.

If you see anything broken or have any comments/feedback on the changes please drop us a comment. More posts coming up tomorrow too, got a backlog of writing!

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written by Laurent \\ tags: bloggin, computers, geeking, tired, update, wordpress

For anyone who has followed hip hop closely since the 80s, the name Stretch Armstrong will be a familiar one.

The legendary radio DJ and show host (who used to co-host the world famous Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito shows) has now been blogging for a few months, as is only right in a 21st century style of things. And this is good news because his blog, Konstant Kontact offers a plethora of links to some amazing radio shows, tracks and mixtapes (previously only available in tape format) from the 80s and 90s, when things for hip hop were, well a little better.

So if you’re fiending for some classics, or like me want to recover many mixes which you once owned (or still do) on tape but never digitized then get over there asap. I recommend checking the recent post about Quincy Jones guesting on his show.

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written by Laurent \\ tags: bloggin, hip hop