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Seeqpod is cool.

Basically, it’s a music search engine and flash-based player. Apparently they don’t believe there are any copyright issues as they don’t host the tracks themselves but just link to them.

It works really well.

For example, I really like the music on this cool Sprint ad, so I loaded up seeqpod and did a search for “architecture in helsinki”. Sure enough, this was one of the ninety-four results that came back:

They even have links to the video (which is very cool.)

I’ve decided to put on another Austral Sinfonietta concert. A break of nearly five years must be long enough to dull the memory of the stress and expense these things cause.

The concert is on September 6 and I’m at that scary stage where things have been booked, money has been paid but I’m still not 100% sure I’ll even have a full orchestra on the day.

All the previous concerts I’ve done have been at St Paul’s Covent Garden, mainly because they were so much cheaper than anywhere else in central London. Some time in the last few years they must have realised this and they have put their prices up. So the concert is going to be at St James’s on Piccadilly instead.

Actually, so far it seems to be a bit less stressful than before. Maybe this is because I’m older and wiser.

Or maybe it’s because Kathryn is doing most of the organising.

The Simpsons Movie opens next week. There has been some great promotional activity for this film including transforming a number of 7-Elevens in America into Kwik-E-Marts selling Squishees and Krusty-Os and a doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

On the Simpsons movie site you can create your own characters. Here’s me as a Simpson:

I just found another good reason to like Zen ADSL. I logged into my customer portal and discovered that I can change the reverse mapping of my static IP address through a simple form on their website.

I’ve been using Zen for years now and I can’t see myself changing in the near future. Certainly not to Virgin Media who, incidentally, phoned me a couple of days after I lodged my complaint with the CISAS and offered to refund the money they owed me straight away. Of course it could take up to twenty-one days to receive the cheque…

Yesterday, after months of hard work, we released Openads 2.3 Beta.

Afterwards, we celebrated at the Oxo Tower and Andrew has some pictures on his blog.