I’m now doing most of my work from locked-down government machines in rural internet centres, which means using online applications for almost everything. I used to be reasonably good with stuff like Premiere, but, though tool-blaming is bad manners, I can’t get online video editor Jumpcut to very much useful, even fades being beyond my powers. Anyway, here’s my first clip, of a guy on a beach in Co Wicklow:

The wobbles are blamable neither on drinking nor on the new camera: I’m just no longer a hippy with nice, relaxed, regular breathing.

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I knew the tune I wanted but not its name, so, on a suggestion from Dave, I found it using the Parsons Code, a simple but brilliant idea which classifies melodies by contour. A little data sometimes goes a long way, and this tool has the additional advantage of working for non-Western repertoire.
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1. Aidan Kehoe
   May 1st 2007 00:19

   Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

2. Trevor
   May 2nd 2007 10:42

   It’s not you is it?

3. Aidan Kehoe
   May 2nd 2007 15:14

   Depends—when was it shot? I have’t been on any Co. Wicklow beach in ten years.

4. Trevor ap Simon
   May 4th 2007 11:33

   Three weeks ago. If that’s you then you must be using that secret senilising seaweed stuff on a regular basis

5. Jez
   May 9th 2007 16:41

   Were you influenced by Man of Aran?

6. Trevor ap Simon
   May 11th 2007 16:23

   I dug him up and resurrected him and then he wanted union rates, the swine.

7. SADI
   July 9th 2007 11:11

   JEZUS I LOVE THAT FUCKING VIDEO ARE U FUCKING MAD OR WHAT

8. Trevor ap Simon
   July 9th 2007 14:03

   I feel I should marry you or something, but I’ve got acute water-poisoning, so maybe we should wait and see how things turn out.