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it's a bank holiday weekend, and it's raining - so I have decided to tackle a job that I have been putting off for far too long - I'm going to catalogue the DVD collection.

I may be some time ...

gosh

I have catalogued the DVDs - at least, the titles are all in the database. I have some doubts about the probity of the data.

I used DVDpedia to enter them, and it found some very dodgy data on doing its lookups. Lawrence of Arabia starring Steven Spielberg?!

never mind, I'll can edit it as I have time, and I can export the data into CSV, from whence it can go into mySQL and onto a web page or two if I feel like it.

what? how many?

139 titles, but a fair few of those are boxed sets. The frightening thing is the value, which appears to be in the region of £2.5k [scream].

a good night

went to see John Martyn at Colsonall.

he looked tired, but played a blinder, and the backing musicians were terrific, particularly the keyboard player. I went to look at the site when I got home to find out who he is, but there are no details there, and the site is really Not Very Nice. Perhaps we should offer to write a proper one.

was talking on IRC this afternoon to DHM (WINOLJ), who reminisced that he saw John Martyn play with Danny Thompson; now I've seen Danny play with *Richard* Thompson many a time. RT is one of my absolute favourites, and I thought I'd just nip on to Google and see if he's touring soon ...

and lo and behold, he's touring this month, so a quick phone call got us a couple of tickets to see him perform in Coventry on 16th May - hurrah!

and now, off to bed, Nite awl.