What a great weekend. After a nice lazy Friday night, I spent the early part of Saturday working on a few bits and pieces, and preparing for my presentation later this week. Then, later that day, Sooz and I drove to Nottingham for Aq’s 30th birthday bash. At a [previous stag do](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1915) I had been to a Robin Hood night, and figured it would be fun for the ging’s celebrations. Aq was looking for something fun to do, plumped with that, and we all had a great night. There was much eating, drinking, and rather shamefully, dancing to Chesney Hawkes with Aq’s better half. That women has a hold on me when Chesney Hawkes comes on – this is the *third* time it has happened. Then again, there ain’t nothin’ like a Bacon getting his groove on…
For the curmudgeonly of you out there, I am sure this will brighten your day:
And…
(photos courtesy of [the bald](https://www.adrianbradshaw.co.uk))
## RaccoonShow
With [0.6 out](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/projects/raccoonshow/) it seems RaccoonShow is making its way through the net. Thanks very, very much to David Watson who has [volunteered to package it for Debian](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/viewcomments.php?id=635#comment4).
The problems we face at the moment is that swftools relies on lame to convert the audio into an MP3 that Flash understands. This is obviously a problem in Debian due to lame being nonfree. There is no real solution around this, unless swftools uses a magic program that is both Debian and Flash friendly, which is unlikely. Anyway, David is looking into it, and will produce unofficial packages whatever the outcome. 🙂
## Recreant View
I am pleased to announce the brand new, all singing, all dancing, rocking, rolling, laugh a second, don’t forget your spare underwear [Recreant View](https://www.recreantview.org/) is available! For those of you who are wondering what I am banging on about, Recreant View is where all of my music lives. You should check it out, its fun. 🙂
The new site is pumped full of WordPress goodness, and includes a nicer design, actual working account registration, blog comments and more. Be sure to point your RSS reader at [this link](https://www.recreantview.org/blog/?feed=rss2) to keep up to date with what is going on there.
Go check it out, and lets build a little community there.
