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Our Daily Beard

Hello there!

First up- my thoughts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bomb attacks. It goes without saying that this was a cowardly and vile act. All one can do is wish the best for those affected.

However, I’m not going to dwell on it, because enough (better informed) people already are.

Instead I’m passing this on: ‘eJay Pure, a  touchscreen reimagining of the classic PC music creation software, is today giving away 100 free music samples to everyone who visits the official Kickstarter page at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wiredproductions/ejay-pure.

The samples, which can be used in any PC, Mac or mobile remix software, have been made available to celebrate the title reaching its second milestone on the popular crowd-funding site: smashing through the £20,000 barrier only four days after it hit £10,000.’

 

Go grab yours if there’s any left! This is a cool project and I’m chuffed to see it doing well. There’s something very encouraging and endearing about Kickstarter and the positive, communal mindset behind it.

Have a good Tuesday!

 
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Our Daily Beard

Waaaaagh!

So. I’ve been toying with some notions.

The first is of adopting a pen name- do you think there’s much place for this anymore? It would be quite nice to have that degree of separation, but it’s probably defunct- after all, your details are all over the web these days unless you’ve been very careful from a young age.

The second is of re-branding my blog. I like ‘The Bearded Wordsmith’, but sometimes wonder if it isn’t time for a fresh start. I do like using the title to create a kind of character to blog as, but wonder if it’s ‘me’ enough (for one, I only have a modest beard- the name implies a mighty Santa-like affair). It would be very easy indeed to just start a new blog with a new name and put it on a site like blogger which is free (I’m paying for hosting after all) and has a built-in infrastructure.

What do you think folks?

If you could- please register for this site. That gives me an idea of how many people I’d be displacing if I started fresh, as well as giving me a way to directly warn you when it happens (if).

Anyway, for now, I’m still beardy old Bret.

 

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Our Daily Beard

Evening all!

Another quickie today… reeling from yesterday!

A little Dr. Who haiku for you:

 

Doctor on a sub,

Lizard Martian run amok,

Shoot it already.

 

See you tomorrow!

 
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