The Wymsey State Blog

2006-07-25T22:18:00.000+01:00

Greetings Friends of Wymsey!The repercussions of cheap international travel are threatening the very existence of Wymsey - Oh, you will say, he is exaggerating for effect. Not this time! The threat is real and very, very, large! So large that we are devoting the whole edition to it and we will soon be offering button badges.So, in this issue:* Wymsey Gliding Club Shock Plans* "Not Blooming Likely

More Fame From the Right

2006-07-16T16:24:00.000+01:00

This time we got featured in the that rightwing rag, the Daily Mail, it looks as if they nicked from thier sister publication Metro. These guys have no morals whatsoever, they steal pictures without attribution and then pretend that they have spoken to me! As for the statistics: month, week, whatever!The Mail report is here and it looks as if the The Metros here put through a schredder!

Radio Wymsey Goes Visual - Soon!

2006-07-01T22:33:00.000+01:00

We now have the equipment to create Wymsey TV! A new webcam, see here, and with a 1 GB card in the digital camera we will be able to do outside broadcasts as well. The quality of the TV shows will be conciderably better than the Webcam which concists of 40 KB jpeg images.We intend to offer the programes as downloads and as a podcast service which will also in include Radio Wymsey. Currently we

Wymsey Wedding Update

2006-06-17T23:01:00.000+01:00

As today, Saturday, is our 4th wedding anniversary I thought that it would be a good time to put up some wedding pictures! The wedding can be seen here. Pictures of the wedding reception and our 4th wedding anniversary can be found here.

Wymsey Updates

2006-05-30T21:01:00.000+01:00

A couple of updates this week:After his dirty weekend on the Isle of Wight with his secret lady friend, Sam Thrundell has posted some pics here.The Boring Old Fart, Michael Asperin, is exploring shopping in his unique manner here.

Oh No, More Fame!

2006-05-23T19:53:00.000+01:00

We've just been contacted by Channel 4 for permission to feature Wymsey in their video blog and a likely showing on TV. See thisisaknife.We'll put up a link when the show is online, one sorry point is that you will have to use IE as the site is set up to use ActiveX & Flash 8. I will be contacting them about the 10% of people who use Firefox!Here's an extract from the researcher's email: "Our

New Edition of the Wymsey Chronicle

2006-05-21T21:39:00.000+01:00

The latest issue of the New Wymsey Chronicle has just been published and we have a few interesting links sent into us. This edition of the Chronicle includes:* A pony visits Tescoland - Thanks to Norma Piles!* Forgone Conclusion OK - Mostly: the elections* Orchestral Crisis - we need help!* Nuclear Enthusiasm Rebuffed By Wymsey Renewables!* Eurovision Song Contest - How much longer?*

New York Times

2006-03-08T20:44:00.000Z

Who said our 15 mins of fame was over: Wymsey is today featured in the new York Times! That mobile cooking page again! Take a look here: New York Times.

The New Wymsey Chronicle

2006-02-25T22:30:00.000Z

The latest edition of the New Wymsey Chronicle has just been published, topics include:Mobile Phone Cooking Leads to Server Chaos!Farewell WCR!Strange Geese in Wymsey.Male Dancing Team Are Over the Moon!deStompe to Quit or Just a Rumour?Wymsey Brave Buddleia Festival and Contest.Some Sports Stuff (from Ted in Wilmington.Bus Pass Fury Engulfs Wymsey Pensioners!Down Our Lane with Sam.The New Wymsey

2006-02-16T20:00:00.000Z

We've been busy at last! New text on the front page and a new page in the Wymsey Weekend Nature Calls. Plus various tied ups around the place.We have added some google adds in order to help finance the recent increase in server demand.

Crazy, Crazy Hits

2006-02-09T21:10:00.000Z

The Mobile Cooking page of the Wymsey Weekend magazine seems to have turned into something of a blockbuster. After doing the rounds in Australia last autumn (40,000 hits in one week) things quietened down to between 500-1000 hits a week. Until late on Monday night when Slashdot featured the page. On Tuesdayy Wymsey got 220,000 hits mostly aimed at the cooking page, Wednesday - 40,000 hits. An

The New Wymsey Green Gnome Award

2005-10-21T22:33:00.000+01:00

Under the immense pressure of public demand we have created a new Wymsey award, it's not only green it's also very democratic. If you think that you should have this award just email wymsey from the mailpage and we will send you the code.It looks like this:The first instance of this award being awarded goes to the voice and spirt behind such characters as

Those Mobiles Are Really Cooking

2005-09-09T21:49:00.000+01:00

Wymsey has had 55,000 hits this past four! 36,500 of those on Mobile Cooking. Wymsey normally gets around 2000 a week - this page has been pick up by forums worldwide and has been spread like wild fire:From September 5, 2005 to September 11, 2005Monday: 8,000 aprox hitsTuesday: 7,000Wednesday: 11,000Thursday: 30,0001 wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm = 38,529 hits2 wymsey.co.uk/favicon.ico =

Nice Linking Tool

2005-08-07T16:08:00.000+01:00

We now have a script from del.icio.us that dynamically updates the links page. The links at the top of the page are the latest ones that we have added here. What you see is the last 15 links added - just whatever is grabbing us at the moment.

Social Bookmarks

2005-07-24T22:52:00.000+01:00

This is a new and exciting way of sharing your bookmarks and also finding liked-minded people and tastes. Quote:"del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others." Take a look here The

Summer Comes to Radio Wymsey

2005-06-27T21:39:00.000+01:00

If this months tracks have anything in common then it must be summer! Nothing heavy on the heart - even the blues are quite jolly. We have a great track from Moonshine Kate recorded in 1931 and a couple from Bascom Lamar Lunsford who was an early collector, composer and performer from Georgia.The programme includes Daddy Squeeze & The Doctor, The Mad Tea Party, Smokin Ray Burnt, Tangleweed,

Radio Wymsey Update

2005-06-02T23:35:00.000+01:00

We've just uploaded a great new programme at Radio Wymsey, 18 tracks on the edge of folk, blues and rock. Artists in this programme: The Almost Acoustic Band, Gene Burton, Dan Bern, Laura Cantrell, The Flying Folk Army, Ellie, The Tom Tighe Band, Colin Gilmore & Lynn Harrison. Enjoy!

The Fred Langa Factor

2005-05-24T20:16:00.000+01:00

After a mention in Fred Langa's newsletter (see link on Radio Wymsey front page) Radio Wymsey got 2800 page hits from 1200 visiters on Monday alone. The Bravenet counters were down by a factor of 3 compared to the server stats so I've taken them down.We are busy encoding material and still have a long to go before the MP3 library is big enough to start 24/7 stream.

iRate radio

2005-04-16T17:33:00.000+01:00

A neat idea that lets you download legal music such as material with a Creative Commons license. You can rate it ( 1 to 4 star) or bin it - great for dealing with all that gangsta rap crap hip hop nonsense. You do need to have Java installed (not native to Windows XP), you can download iRate Radi0 here. By analysing your ratings the central server soon learns what you like and chooses from over

Radio Wymsey Music Channel

2005-04-11T20:50:00.000+01:00

Our new programme for the Music Channel has a cross section of music that was performed at this years SXSW Festivals in Austin, Texas. The selection includes rock, reggae, folk, alt. country, soul, blues and some very strange stuff from Japan.For those of you that have not come across SXSW here's what the site has to say about the festivals: "Pop, jazz, country, blues, reggae, hip hop,

Streaming Radio Wymsey

2005-04-05T20:42:00.000+01:00

I'm continuing to clean up some of the messy cul de sacs and remove dead links - a real problem with a site so old.The new forum is working well if not over active :)Most of our energy has been in putting new programmes together for Radio Wymsey as well as researching the best deals for stream - which we hope to be doing in a couple of months. Keep in touch with Radio Wymsey through the blog.

Cobwebs

2005-03-11T23:38:00.000Z

Jez! The dust in this place - over the years I have spread Wymsey over a number of ISPs, latterly with OneandOne - where all the new stuff is but some early stuff is behind doors with lost keys! I'll just have to go - virtually - cap in hand. Still, must of the mess is of my own making - like creating a spoof radio station in 2000 that has propagated to the furthest corners and meanwhile the ISP

New Wymsey Forum

2005-02-27T23:28:00.000Z

We've been busy all day creating a really good new forum, so come on over toThe Wymsey Forums, register and join the mayhem! We've already got members :)

God Help the Children!

2005-02-20T12:54:00.000Z

I was somewhat perturbed to find on a GCSE study site, Coursework.Info , the following: "The mobile phones can also be used in exactly the same way as microwaves. If positioned correctly between an egg, it is possible to cook that egg during a call to the opposite mobile phone."The "fact" was taken from Mobile Cooking , which I wrote three or four years ago for the Wymsey Chronicles Weekend

Thank You Mr Taxman!

2005-02-18T22:13:00.000Z

Would you believe it - I got a check from the Taxman this week for overpaid tax in 2001. Not a lot - £68 - but enough to get me a decent mixer on eBay and some left over to put towards a hald decent mic! These items are for Radio Wymsey I bought the mixer from Johnny Roadhouse who seem to be a really nice outfit. Johnny Roadhouse senior played sax for the BBC for many years and worked with many

Radio Wymsey

2005-02-08T20:58:00.000Z

Radio Wymsey now has it's own blog with regular updates. The station has both on-demand channels up and running with test programs. In order to make economic use of the availible bandwidth both channels will be Mp3 Pro and mon0. (See the radio Wymsey blog for links to info on MP3 Pro.

What's Going On?

2005-01-11T20:20:00.000Z

Happy New year everyone! We had a very Wymsey Christmas and in between the pints of Fiddlers Elbow managed to get a lot of coding done for the new Radio Wymsey site. We have also started to plan programs for the music channel and to talk (virtually) to a number of performers. Much of the music we'll be featuring is licensed under the Creative Commons flexible copyright. One fun thing we did was

Wymsey Christmas

2004-12-14T20:38:00.000Z

The Official State Christmas tree was erected and illuminated this weekend by the Standing Committee with the help of Brenda Starling and her excitable troup of Girl Guides. You can see the Official State Christmas tree on the Wymsey Webcam which is destined to become the Radio Cam in the New year. Jimbob was in fine form on today's rant at Wholewheat Radio but it was Esther's screams that stole

More State Radio News

2004-12-09T21:20:00.000Z

Lots of thinking & planning going on here, the latest plan is that Wymsey State Radio will have two channels, one will be the usual Radio Wymsey mix of the delightful & dire. The second channel is to be a music channel that will aim to support independent folk & blues performers.

Wymsey State Radio News

2004-12-03T23:58:00.000Z

Our Ideas are still evolving and I am stongly coming down in favour of a new domain for the station rather than something like www.wymsey.co.uk/radio/ or www.wymsey.co.uk/radio.htm . I am hoping to be able to get individual deals with independant singers & bands that will allow us to play their music in return for links back to sites that sell their CDs. We'll see :) In the meantime, you

Just Another Friday Night

2004-12-03T22:48:00.000Z

Friday evenings are fun, the working week is over and I get in some beers, the Missus she has some beers or wine. Maybe a bit of TV but mostly I tune into Wholewheat Radio , listen to the sounds, make a request, join in the chat and check out the artists web sites. Jimbob & Esther, who run the station, really should get the Nobel prize for Srvices to Real Music - Wholewheat Radio is a real

Wymsey Gets A Hit

2004-12-02T21:30:00.000Z

Wymsey's usual 500 page requests a day was boosted enormously on Tuesday when the guys Whirlpool Forums started a thread about the Mobile Cooking article in the Weekend Magazine and boosted our page hits by another 900 hits. We also got a lot of hits on the same page due to another thread in the role play forum at Roleplatworlds! There's life in the old dog yet!

News & Updates

2004-11-26T21:00:00.000Z

We are happy for now with the simple approach to Wymsey Radio with a link for each program that will open up whatever default MP3 player the listener uses. Over the next few weeks we will create a Wymsey Radio page so that programmes can be easily accessed from Wymsey. There will also be a Wymsey Radio Blog for specific news about the station. Our plans for next year include getting some decent

Wymsey Radio

2004-11-23T18:54:00.000Z

This link is better: Wymsey State Radio Test Programme. It will open up your player and start playing without having to download the file first.

Wymsey Radio

2004-11-21T20:33:00.000Z

We are doing test transmissions using MP3 - currently a 10 minute test. You can listen using Winamp, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player or anything that will play MP3 files. Programs will normally be announced at the Radio Wymsey web site. Test Program One

Wymsey State Radio Update

2004-11-20T16:36:00.000Z

We've been playing around with Mercora for a couple of weeks now and really like the idea as well the way the system works in practice. It's a great legal way to share your music and to hear new sounds. Unfortunately it's not so good a way to create a radio station that is easily available to anyone. Our latest format idea to make use of a blog and streaming MP3. Each entry in the blog will be

Wymsey State Radio

2004-11-07T16:05:00.000Z

Greetings From the State Radio Research Unit. We are currently carrying out experimental transmissions from the new station Gnomalarta Radio. The Station makes use of the Mercora Peer to Peer (P2P) network. This is a perfectly legal file sharing system for broadcasting music and chat which works because royalties are paid up ahead by the Mercora folks.(Only music files that carry track

Just Another Plug

2004-10-29T21:01:00.000+01:00

I think that I already said that I rate Wholewheat Radio and I only wish that I had the technical means and time to do something similar but I know for sure that Wholewheat is one of a kind and damn good! Wymsey radio will be something else but I hope good at whatever it will be! At the moment I am researching the technicalities and such things as how to get the bandwidth without going bankrupt

Wymsey Recants

2004-10-24T03:25:00.000+01:00

"Gnomes are OK really," says State Council statement. In an amazing about face the State Council have admitted that previous attitudes to the little stony fellows has not been all it could have been.State Council Chairman Gordon deStompe stated that the microstates policy realignment had absolutely nothing to do with a new English law which decreed that all gnomes were to be deported to an

Greetings All Wymsonians Everywhere!

2004-10-23T06:18:00.000+01:00

So welcome, you all!Wymsey is now under New Management - that's us. We have been tarting up the old front door - adjusting the hinges and applying paint here & there, tweaking menus, etc. We have plans! Foremost, we should to bring succor to the poor benighted English - them what has us surrounded - poor blighters. Those jonnies in North London have led them into mayhem and disaster, the