Friday's Chat
John Fowles
chat room advert
corfid highlights
1. the main Gordon Lightfoot forum at
http://www.corfid.shorturl.com
Walter/Borderstone
nominated as
"The Lightfoot Of the Week."
newcomer AZroute74 (one Judy Coyle) who explained her nom de plume as
"I've adopted it because State Route 74 in AZ is the source for the song; it
is the Carefree Highway."
Of course she is quite incorrect as the fabled highway which leads to the
megalopolis of Carefree is but one road leading
off Route74
as clearly shown on my pic at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/carefree/johnandlargehwysign4..jpg
read Judy's first post:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001988.html
to find out"Why? For going out and starting over where some might have given
up"
There were a pair of new Brit posters on corfid this week
both debuted at the end of a lengthy topic
"Favorite Lightfoot Song & Why? II" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000055-9.html
first Katrine a Horticulturist
who stated
"I first saw Gordon Lightfoot when he hosted a series of TVshows here in the
UK way back in 1963.
I have been a fan ever since.
Unfortunately he never tours here, so we feel a bit deprived."
In 1963 I personally was to busy swatting up for my London University finals
to watch television so missed those landmark
shows altogether and it was not until I heard "Spin Spin" on Montreal radio
in 1966 that I became hooked perhaps Katrine
could recount what she remembers of those shows. Did Gord sing and what??
Soon after Katrine Mair )(a teacher from Welsh Wales) popped (popped/poped)
out of the woodwork
I trust that Bruna Zanelli a.k.a silverheels has added them both to her
growing list of UK fans
and that one or the other might venture to Toronto for the hoped-for 2005
Massey convention
since it has been known for years that Gord is unlikely to return to the UK
for a tour.
So you'll have to come over here and join the several hundred Lightheads
that are bound to congregate in Toronto
This leads to the week's most significant good news
Gord has the stomach-muscle strenthening surgery on Feb 17th and contrary to
earlier rumours
"Gordon Lightfoot says vocal cords fine"
Funny I always thought they were "vocal chords" but no cords they are!!!
Of course the accompanying bad news was that the release of "Hermony" has
slipped back a fortnight to May 11th
but thanks to Wayne Francis' source we already know the 11 song titles
2. Meanwhile over on the "Small Talk" forum an initially innocent topic
concerning the schoolboy love life of one DMD3 or "Dunkin' Douglas" as I
like to refer to him soon developed into a lively discussion on marriage
women's greed etc
there was also a charming confession about an old GL Tee shirt by Char at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000282.html
On the other hand The Newsgroup at:-
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
started the week badly on Saturday morning with Bill Hall's sad news about
his daughter Dana.
Both boards had links to new fun sites to supercede the earlier pinguin
bashing experiences of those with time in their hands
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OK now the Chat Room commercial
Following a sparse attendance of only 7 last Friday
I hope more will venture in this evening
I will be e-mailing Bruna later to try to persuade her to attend
Tonight at 9PM EST
browser link
http://www.rikschatroom.shorturl.com
john fowles
and this very evening we will hope to see a good crowd in the chatroom
Last week's 9 which included a talented singer/guitarist lady from
Austin Texas was encouraging
But first the past week's highlights (as I see them anyway):-
CORFID HIGHLIGHTS
http://www.corfid.shorturl.com
there's a very nice Topic: Question for the new and younger posters
asking how lightheads got hooked at:=
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001896.html
Another interesting Topic: Your least played album at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002018.html
And another Topic: OK, who sang it? at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002017.html
concerning another version of DSMMN
In researching my reply I found a nice site:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002017.html
which sports a bio and an extensive discography
clicking on the album cover thumbnails will show the album track
listing and in most cases each track has a link to a short 30 second
audio (Real Media) clip
useful if you want to check on one of Gord's songs that you might find
is not included in the many clips on Val's site:-
http://www.gordonlightfoot.com
where for example she has all 88 tracks on the Songbook Box Set
I brought this up because there has been a spate of late on corfid of
confessions by a number of people who are not yet fortunate enough to
own every GL album
sking which one to buy next and/or declaring that they have never
heard a particular song and a 30-second sample could therefore be
useful to them
NEWSGROUP HIGHLIGHTS
on the newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot at:-
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
Highlight of the week was undoubtedly the discovery/announcement by
Jenney regarding the upcoming new album "Harmony" that
"There will be a single released of
Inspiration Lady, and a video! The video has already been taped, and
from what
I hear is great."
thread "Inspiration Lady from Harmony"
I would advise hurrying over there pronto (not Toronto) because some
troll posted a message
under the subject: "alt.music.lightfoot down the pan"
Meanwhile Douglas Crowe continued to be troubled medically and
received an offer of help from a new poster (a doctor) who practices
in Brazil
Ron a.k.a. blackbery wine created a minor hoo ha by bringing up his
discovery of more recordings at the alt.binaries.mp3.bootlegs
newsgroup but fortunately gave it the very same subject name as an
earlier thread about the Reno recording in 2000 by "duff"
Your very alert reporter spotted that both Duff and Douglas reside in
Lexington Kentucky So I have sent them an e-mail suggesting that they
meet tonight in the snug and welcoming gathering place known as old
rik's chat room. (actually Rik Stevens is not that old!!)
Now where was I oh yes this evening's chat
as usual
9 PM EST at:-
http://www.rikschatroom.shorturl.com
to avoid getting bumped as Gaby did last week
take a close look at the mIRC chat client
fully illustrated details at
http://www.mirc.shorturl.com
john fowles
news:<680152ee.04021...@posting.google.com>...
> And another Topic: OK, who sang it? at:-
> http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002017.html
> concerning another version of DSMMN
> In researching my reply I found a nice site:-
> http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002017.html
the link to the interesting bio and clips site should have been:-
http://www.theiceberg.com/artist/957/gordon_lightfoot.html
Sorryyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!
john fowles
Both boards had threads/topics regarding our hopes and prayers for
Gord's scheduled operation this past Tuesday and we all now anxiously
await news that it was successful
Both boards also took a dim view of the decision by the Junos
committee that the Beautiful tribute album did not fit into any
existing awards category
Otherwise the Newsgroup:-
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
was relatively quiet
this silence was broken on Tuesday by Roger speculating on what a duet
of Gord and Willie Nelson might comprise song-wise
This caused apoplexy for Ed Mullen who introduced the notion of those
two along with Bob Dylan
The corfid discussion forum:-
http://www.corfid.shorturl.com
continued to be lively
Jim Nasium from somewhere in England was astounded by the ignorance of
a Canadian lady on a BBC quiz programme who was unable to name 5
famous Canadians
Sundry Americans then showed how knowledgeable they were and this
sparked off a new topic "Pop Quiz" which sounds promising
I myself added to an earlier thread on Gord's affinity with cats
and/or dogs when I spotted on ebay:-
http://www.ebaylightfoot.shorturl.com
that a punter in Japan was auctioning a Japanese single of Sundown
with a rare picture sleeve with a fine shot of Gord with a dog.For as
long as this auction is current you can see this pic at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002021.html
On the subject of Pets
I then posted my two favourite kitten pics a few days ago as a new
"Small Talk" forum topic at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000285.html
last night I was able to lead Kimberley (ex-mytoyota) through the
procedure to display on corfid any picture that is already on a web
site, a most useful feature that in my mind sets corfid apart from the
Newsgroup where Google studiously ignores any binary content (although
if you follow the NG via your browser's Newsreader then attachments of
jpegs etc will show up)
The other feature of corfid I really like is that you can see your
posting immediately and if you post as a registerd member you can if
necessary then edit it or even delete it(due to my penchant for typos
this is invaluable!!!)
Bill (W)allace started what could be an interesting thread on "Playing
PAL DVDs in the USA" a subject of which know a bit and will contribute
to in due course:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000286.html
two mentions of Gord by late night chat show host Conan O'Brien were
quoted on this topic:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002027.html
Which is a neat cue for today's chat room advert
following last week's successful chat during which 11 turned up we
will be open as usual this evening at 9 PM EST at:-
http://www.rikschatroom.shorturl.com
It will be interesting to see if Gaby makes it again and whether she
has bitten the bullet and installed mIRC at last details at :-
http://www.mirc.shorturl.com
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot
Gary Sprang
Conan was in Ontario. It was pretty funny, though.
-Gary
John Fowles
"Gary Sprang" <Sputnik@NOSPAM_JoiMail.com> wrote in message
news:103fhs2...@corp.supernews.com...
> Conan did a very strange imitation of Gord singing the Wreck last week,
when
> Conan was in Ontario. It was pretty funny, though.
earlier Conan Lightfoot funny about how Halle Berry would get fame as the
first Afro American to actually buy a Gorfdon Lightfoot record
Newsgroup and Corfid highlights week 20th to 26th February 2004
The biggest news appeared immediately after I posted my highlights last week
when Jenney revealed that she had heard from Toronto that Gord's operation
apparently was successful and that he was out of the ICU
Among the more interesting new topics on corfid at:-
http://www.corfid.shorturl.com
was the revelation by a new poster who had been posting as "trudiewannabe"
that her real name is Shazia. it transpired that the Sting to her tale is
that she rather fancied herself as Mrs Gordon Sumner!!
I havejust checked my facts on this via Google where I also learned that an
anagram of Sting's real name is "grunted minor songs" which is mightily
unfair!!
other Corfid topics included:-
The Gordon Lightfoot Project
an appeal from Jeffrey Parker for ideas on three things that represent GL
for a school history project produced some good
ideas although Jeffrey seemed to have sussed out the salient points
already:-
Guitar-the Fitz and CRT:-
one of the replies mentioned that I had found a very nice painting of the
Fitz at sunset it is at
http://pet-portraits.net/edmund_fitzgerald_lastlight_print.jpg]
Dunkin Douglas (DMD3)
has this very day started what could be a long-running and interesting
"Topic: What is a Lighthead to you?"
this youthful Lighthead was also worried about the whereabouts of a hitherto
prolific UK poster rejoicing in the name Major Sir Jerry Pudding who replied
that some unimaginative pillock had registered that name so he was unable to
use it. Unfortunately sir Gerald then used another unregistered name Major
Surgery Pending no longer quite so apt now Gord has had his hopefully final
surgery Oh well
Another new corfid poster wanted to know an explanation of the great song
"Race Among The Ruins" and was promptly told that a young and then eligable
Derek Kidd had submitted a lengthy analysis on the Newsgroup way back in
1997. which prompts me to emphasize to all posters old and new that amongst
the Newsgroup's almost 30,000 threads you can find discussion on just about
every GL song especially if it is called "Cabaret" and possibly features
sundry Zippo lighter noises!!
see:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=2ee5502a529de
e46&rnum=1
the starting post is a classic so make sure that you read it all.That
reminds me of another very nice explanation of another favo(u)rite of mine
That Same Old Obsession at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=FWBz3.1522%
242h5.4784%40news.chello.at
this was posted by someone who called himself then:-
Corfid (f-bode...@gmx.net)
That's right no less than our good friend and benefactor of the corfid site
and Discussion Forum
Florian. He shortly thereafter got stuck into his own website and announced
it to an unsuspecting Lightheadworld in September 1999 at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=a71e8494c3e0f
895&rnum=7]h
Meanwhile on the Newsgroup (alt.music.lightfoot)
Handily accesible from this special link:-http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
Ed Mullen found himself bereft of Kleenex
And a Canadian poster pointed out that the Linus Entertainment site had put
up some new Gord items preparatory to their release of Harmony which bodes
well for their probable publicity plans for the album and the man
I will add a link to one of the pictures they used and for anyone reading
this on corfid the picture sould in fact have appeared below this link but
unfortunately Linus have cut the pic up into 4 segments so click on this
link:-
http://www.linusentertainment.com/artists/gordon/gordon2_lg.shtml
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot]http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoo
t
John Fowles
I pasted in the posting I had used for corfid but in editing the URLs I seem
to have well and truly mucked it up
trying again
Derek's Zippo explanation
complete thread
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=2ee5502a529de
e46&rnum=1
Derek's posting in its entirety
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20010125090
051.04196.00001029%40ng-cm1.aol.com
corfid obsession
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=FWBz3.1522%
242h5.4784%40news.chello.at
corfid announcement
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=a71e8494c3e0f
895&rnum=7
and the short snappy Newsgroup URL is
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
and what currently comprises my web site's Lightfoot page should be:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk
And after all that I clean forgot to say that we were 7-strong last Friday
in the chat room and will try again this evening at 9 PM EST at:-
http://www.rikschatroom.shorturl.com
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"John Fowles" <fowle...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dpOdnfM4tYR...@garden.net...
John Fowles
> Well All Right not only did I include a typo for Gary's name
> I pasted in the posting I had used for corfid but in editing the URLs I
seem
> to have well and truly mucked it up
> trying again
> Derek's Zippo explanation
> complete thread
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=2ee5502a529de
e46&rnum=1
> Derek's posting in its entirety
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20010125090
> corfid obsession
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=FWBz3.1522%
242h5.4784%40news.chello.at
> corfid announcement
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&th=a71e8494c3e0f
885&rnum=7
Gary Sprang
john fowles
> That's OK John!
I am so pleased Gary Thanx
Highlights week February 21 to 27 2004
On both message boards the big news was the discovery that Linus
Entertainment in a shrewd move at garnering advance publicity for
May's new Harmony album
had released three tracks for immediate download from Apple's pay per
track itunes.
Other postings on the Newsgroup at:- http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
included the finding by Char of she said some added archive material
on the great CBC audio/video archive site
although I have myself yet to find the one apparent extra audio file
Corfid at:- http://www.corfid.shorturl.com was relatively quiet
I added a 1975 picture of Gord with Dylan that I found to a topic
comparing the two erstwhile friend's relative popularity
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002016.html
Now the distressing story of last Friday's non-chat when at least 7 of
us were unable to get in either via mIRC or the browser link
Newsgroup readers please note that Ed Mullen reported on his problem
getting in under the incorrect thread title of "friday chat"
the current thread is "friday's chat"
so his posting got appended to an old thread about the Yahoo chat room
the browser link to what we call "Rik's chat room" is and has been for
the last getting on for five years
http://chat.cjb.net/gordonlightfootchat
but ever since last Friday this page "cannot be displayed" dammit!!
similarly the mIRC link I set up as originaly guided by the room's
founder Rik Stevans and
as I described at:- http://www.mirc.shorturl.com
to access the chat room via cjb.net would not function
But as of today http://www.cjb.net
opens fine so it does not on the surface appear that cjb.net has
ceased to be
Now I am not privy to all the arrangements that Rik made when he set
this up in 1999
(at one point he was muttering about a change that meant he had to pay
for it but he later denied this)
I will copy this to him in case he can shed light on the problem.
Nor do I even partly understand how the room operates i.e, where in
cyberspace is it.
All I do know is that that after looking up mIRC help I found that
they recommended trying alternative IRC servers
of which there are a great variety as detailed at:-
http://www.mirc.com/servers.html
so as I was last week using an old issue (6.01) of the mIRC client
program
(A new version 6.14 was released on Tuesday as it happens)
I experimented and at the point where you have to press the "connect
to IRC server" button
I tried the drop-down menu and then I selected from the list then
presented a couple and found that
on my mIRC
rik's chat room is set for
"irc.cjb.net" as per Rik's 1999 instructions
I was mightily surprised that when I selected almost at random
what was shown as"DALnet: Random server"
amazed to be presented with the identical channel listing I had set up
for the cjb server link
with the first channel shown as #gordonlightfootchat
today it refuses to connect (see below) but lo and belold if I being
biased by Ed Mullen's technical prowess
select instead what is listed as:
"DALnet: US,GA, Acool"
then press connect to IRC server
I gain entry to the chat room as usual
way cool!!!
Anyone who is not following me can see the various standard (cjb)
dialog box screenshots at my mIRC descriptive page on my
site:- http://www.mirc.shorturl.com
the /georgia link per edit is to
acool.ga.us.dal.net
whereas the cjb link was to
irc.cjb.net
it follows then that the direct browser link must be
instead of http://chat.cjb.net/gordonlightfootchat
It could be http://acool.ga.us.dal.net/gordonlightfootchat
wrong that page cannot be displayed either
duh...
Ok lets try the DALnet:Random server link that worked last week
per edit this is to IRC server
irc.dal.net similar to cjb's format
now if I wait long enough this connects
so the browser link MUST be http://chat.dal.net/gordonlightfootchat
Wrong again
(thinks why is it that using impeccable logic such as I used there so
often fails to produce the right answer?)
wel at least I tried and now by copy of this to Rik and Ed any otherr
bright ideas
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Failing that I will get in using the mIRC dALnet link this evening and
see if anyone else shows up
I am reluctant to suggest at this point that we retry the Yahoo room
not least because Susan amongst others had problems
getting in there too
But I will also be on AIM note AIM which is NOT the same as AOL
Instant Messenger
see http://www.litlejim.shorturl.com for an explantion
My AOl name is okyoutellme for reasons I won't go into at this moment
but you can guess!!!
tonight at 9PM EST
it might be possible to set up a room there
John Fowles
john fowles
NEWSGROUP
The linus web site apparently now has an extract from the liner notes
for Harmony
see the thread subject "harmony fever" at
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
this followed another new harmony-related thread "Welcome to
Orillia........" started by an ex-pat son of Orillia now in Sweden
and some initial reviews in another suitably titled thread "harmony
preview"
which included a posting by Doug Kirk to his own web site's inclusion
of the harmony album artwork
CORFID
Over at the corfid discussion Forum two stalwarts there continued to
provide some stirring topics
"Borderstone" (Walter Lamont) wanted to know how anxious we were
regarding the release of Harmony and afterwards he through
a third party (thank you brink) sent me a fine picture of himself
which is now on display at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002059.html
I intend to incorporate a rogue's gallery on my Webring page when I
get around to rewriting it
(and completing the reorganisation of the webring that I have been
trying to get back to for yonks)
and have therefore in that topic asked for fans to send me a recent
picture.
Our young Georgian Dunkin' Douglas (DMD3) started a nice topic asking
readers
"Give me a list of all the GL songs you have heard on the radio" which
will get us old-timers scratching our heads!!
talking of pictures as I was
"Bruna the Beautiful Blonde Brit" was recently over here and in her
travels discovered literally almost by accident the
township of Lightfoot in Virginia. She is prettily pictured at
Lightfoot at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002074.html
and yet another swooning female from the UK Gaby
had the temerity to ask:-
"So, which song do you know Gordon Lightfoot wrote for you?"
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002078.html
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And now the sorry tale of the chat room or rather the lack of it:-
Well I have no real idea why the usual chat room failed the last two
weeks but the link no longer works via the IRC server
cjb.net that Rik originally set his chat room up with, nor was it
possible to get the simpler non-IRC access via the browser.
I consulted mIRC help and the advice seems to be to try another IRC
sercver of which there are a large and varying number
listed in a drop down menu above the mIRC's "connect to IRC Server"
button.but one I successfully tried two weeks ago DLnet.net
is not listed on the old mIRC version that Susan is using.
Eventually last week after I had made contact with Cathy by IMing her
we roped in her son Matt who obviously knows a thing or
two about IRC and he set up gordonlightfootchat to open using EFnet as
the IRC server.Indeed 4 of us were able to meet in what
seemed to be the identical layout that we are used to using mIRC.
BUT he does not think it is possible to get in via one's browser
which rather negates that solution for now as several
chatters who do not want to get involved with installing the superior
mIRC and therefore will wish to continue using the
browser method. So that way is out. Now Rik ran into the problem of
reluctance to go 100% with mIRC some years ago and was
trying to set up an alternative using the free chat facilities
offerred by bravenet. (free but pop-up advert prone)
So there is a link already on his web site to his bravenet room (see
below)
I have now been able to initiate my own bravenet room (see below also)
But as yet I have not been able to discover if a bravenet room can be
accessed via mIRC.
I will be contacting Matt shortly to see if he knows how to do that
So for the moment i.e. this evening we will meet in Rik's existing
room at:-
http://pub41.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/3487845653 at 9pm EST
if you wish to do a quick check on my proposed new room as it is go
to:-
http://pub33.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/2750193584
Neither room as far as I can tell is actually located in a "pub"
OK that's it for another week
BrunaZanelli
>NEWSGROUP
John,
you are such a treasure!
As one who is unable to be part of the Friday Chat (geez, guys, a gal has to
sleep sometime!), I find these
'highlights' invaluable.
Good work, Mr. Fowles.
Bru
Cathy Cowette
news:20040312161256...@mb-m02.aol.com...
I'll second that, Bru. It's great to have a weekly summary, and it brings
the newsgroup and Corfid together.
The link John provided to Borderstone's picture doesn't work for me. Here's
the correct link. I hope it works.
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002082.html
Cathy
http://www.cathycowette.com
David Bradford
>
> you are such a treasure!
> As one who is unable to be part of the Friday Chat (geez, guys, a gal has to
> sleep sometime!), I find these
> 'highlights' invaluable.
>
> Good work, Mr. Fowles.
>
> Bru
I agree. The weekly wrap is an excellent part of this group.
Well done, indeed!
David
john fowles
to devise a small digest of the past week's highlights
are being appreciated. so here I go again
Highlights week March 12th to 18th 2004
CORFID
young newbie Shazia
started what is becoming an interesting topic at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002097.html
by asking after hearing the Auctioneer
"do some Lightfoot songs make you LAUGH (instead of getting
watery-eyed, for example)?"
She had earlier set female hearts flutterring by archly asking at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002098.html
"The question is: in his prime (whatever that was), how did you feel
about Gordon's looks, aside from his music? The choices
are below"
This has certainly caused some confusion for male corfidants!!!
Shazia also been seeking advice (as a new collector of Gord albums) on
what to buy next. I always reccomend getting the United Artists five
original albums.As this is a recurrent topic on corfid I did some
extensive research on the various ways to obtain those albums and
produced an illustrated guide at:=
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002090.html
"knightmoves" (niveknavillus)
provocably asked for reaction to his motion that
"GL and Folk fading into history forgotten???" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002099.html
An excited Gaby reported on a positive response she had received from
Linus to her enquiry "about the worldwide release of Harmony and
pre-ordering." which revealed their plans to "let fans pre-order by
only two weeks in advance. It will be on www.mymusic.com"
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002100.html
that one item alone IMHO made reading corfid last week most
worthwhile!!
Meanwhile for lighter relief on the small talk forum
A topic on what Canadians think of the corfid site led to a search for
a few missing regulars in particular Georgian DMD3 (Dunkin Douglas)
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000299.html
Florian showed by adding a feature on Harmony welcome evidence that
he was still involved with his creation
and now a peek at the NEWSGROUP
The week's most intriguing incident was undoubtedly an upset that
occurred in a thread:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=20040318093027.20488.00001632%40mb-m28.aol.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26group%3Dalt.music.lightfoot
that was basically discussing the attempts by itunes to eliminate
piracy of the harmony preview
This led to the reapearance as a poster by one-time Lightfoot website
pioneer Matthew Fifer. Unfortunately he chose to comment
curmudgeonally on a typical rant by frequent poster Ed Mullen and was
in turn accused by Newsgroupers who were obviously unaware of
Matthew's valuable past contribution to the wealth of internet
Lightfoot resources of being troll who threw "a moodie" it also
revealed that at the time of posting one could select
""X-No-Archive" header instruction" and ~Google then would not display
your posting as was the case with two of Ed's postings. Not at all
helpful in trying to follow the thread.
I thought this a good opportunity to air at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=680152ee.0403150948.4f480733%40posting.google.com
a few of my pet peeves mainly bad design exmples but I learned that
"In America, the person calling does not pay extra to reach a mobile.
The extra cost (if any) is borne by the mobile phone receiving the
call."
This as with the fact that in America you switch a light switch on
upwards is the exact opposite of what I was used to in England.
Regarding cell/mobile phone charges my wife says this depends on the
particular plan you are on.
On the other hand a true troll trying not too hard to be invisible
suggested that Gord's surgery might have had a "dysfunction"
(sic-very sick) side effect. this unneccessary posting drew the
correct "ignore" response.
And so to the unsatisfactory situation with the chat room
Rik's chat room is still not accessible either through the browser
link or mIRC at cjb.net although as reported last week
it can be entered via mIRC using the alternative IRC server EF.net
last week I said we would try the alternative Bravenet room that Rik
currently has a link to on his site
and I joined Bill Hall and Gary Sprang there for a while,
But no matter what we tried we were unable to get access from Susan's
computer (on a different ISP and phone line)
trying with Internet Explorer the Java applet refused to load and
switching to Netscape produced the same really stupid
"upgrade required to your Windows Virtual Machine" advice that plagued
us when we tried to use the alternative Yahoo Group
chat room a while back.
I later upgraded her I.E. to version 6 but still the applet refuses to
open.I got side tracked this week so failed to contact
Cathy's son who knows about mIRC to see if he could find a way to set
up mIRC to access the bravenet room (searches of both
bravenet and mIRC help were unhelpful and a google search gave no
useful results.So where does that leave us??
Bravenet is clearly not acessible by everybody (I suspect others had
the same problem as Susan last Friday). Ideally we could
use Rik's original room or a replacement and access via mIRC but
despite strenuous cajoling by Rik in 1999/2000 and me in my
adverts for well over year too few potential chatters seem prepared
to take the small amount of trouble to acquire then set
up mIRC. So for tonight I propose that anyone interested meet in the
bravenet room at 9pm EST at:-
http://pub41.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/3487845653
If only a few turn up I will get round to contacting Cathy's son.
Failing a workable answer there I will amend my mIRC
instruction page to add how to change from the existing cjb.net to
EF.net and then plan on using that next week.
if anybody reading this has any comments or better ideas please say so
either here or to me by e-mail to
fowle...@hotmail.com