M-Block was pretty packed for a Sunday as lots of people are still working to get their final projects completed and it doesn't help by having a lackluster computer network in the radio studios. What irritates me is that it's now even difficult to find the extra elements to illustrate audio pieces as the shelves with all the library and sound FX CDs were removed at the beginning of the semester for no apparent reason meaning that I usualy end up supplying most of them to people via my hard drive. I particuarly felt sorry for one girl who spent an hour going through the unlabled folders of sounds on the network drive only to find what she was looking for after I was able to give her the chosen audio.
These changes have been part of the reason why I feel that this semester hasn't has been as good as last year which moves onto the Digital Village issue. This is covered in a report for Smoke Radio voiced and co-produced by first year student Steven McIntosh along with Emma Hudson, investigating Digital Village's shallow waves for internet surfing.
Just to get a few things clear with the e-mail, the 56k speed isn't the one I'm actually tied up to officially but that's the speed it was running on at the time when it was meant to be higher.
Also in all fairness the halls staff themselves aren't directly responsible for the problems that Digital Village have caused but what I don't understand is why they have no communication with the provider. This really needs to be more consistent especially as I get intimidated when things don't work as they should do and the halls staff should be the nearest port of call.
Anyway asides that I only did one hour of my own show which was quite a challenge, I accidentally deleted all the music that was meant to be played at 2:00 which meant I had to schedule the hour myself. Whilst I didn't stick to the normal rota it was fun to spin a few seasonal tracks including the 1989 version of "Do They Know It's Christmas" featuring Kylie, Sonia and Cliff! The plan after that was to meet Ross Powell and James at the Moon on the Hill bar in Harrow but I ended up getting caught in all sorts of things making sure pre-recs were scheduled properly and giving a few others a hand that could be solved quicker if we had the appropriate resources.
Anyway it's Quiz Night again at the Undercroft tonight and probably the last one of the semester so it looks set to be very festive. Ricky wasn't too impressed with how I plugged it on the show earlier today "make sure you get over by 8pm although to be honest it may not be that busy there..."
That's friendly encouragement for you.
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