Well, it’s been some time since I last blogged – nearly three months. Eek!<\/p>\n
Partly, it’s because I’ve been very busy at work, writing the lectures for a new course on 3D graphics.<\/p>\n
I’ve also been busy rehearsing and recording with my new band Angles<\/a> (with Cliff Stapleton & Richard Jones) and playing with my new G bagpipes – a lovely sweet-sounding set from Sean Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n For anyone who’s around in Kent, Gloucestershire or Brighton, Angles have got three gigs<\/a> coming up in January – my first chance to play the pipes in public.<\/p>\n So – not much time to work on the abc website.<\/p>\n However, there have been a few things going on behind the scenes so this is just a quick update – exactly six months since the website was relaunched.<\/p>\n First of all, the tune search has been growing all the while – I’ve just updated it today and it now includes over 53,000 tunes. I’ve also done quite a lot of work on the crawler (that searches for abc files across the web) and I think it’s much more robust now – though not much to see from the user point of view.<\/p>\n Secondly, I created an abc facebook page<\/a> a week or so ago. Not much activity there yet, but I’m hoping people will drop by and say hi.<\/p>\n There is also a (long overdue) move in-hand to formally adopt an updated abc standard Finally, although I haven’t had time to start it yet, I’ve got plans for a whole series of blog articles – watch this space.<\/p>\n– check the forums<\/a> for details<\/del>.<\/p>\n