Andre Louis

Direct from an iPhone!

Andre Louis — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:43:09 +0000

I lied. I said I wouldn’t keep making useless writings up here did I not? Well I am doing it again, this time from my iPhone. Just testing the rather nice and free WordPress app that someone told me about.
This really will be shorter than the rest, I’ve said all I wanted to say before, so I get to just sod off and shut up now, which I will do immediately!
*ZIP*

Test#2

Andre Louis — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:21:15 +0000

Yes I know this gets old quickly doesn’t it? I feel absolutely sorry for
anyone following this blog via RSS, you probably got entirely inundated
yesterday with way too much. However, it had to happen and now it has, it
will not do that again.
Now that all my old livejournal posts are here, I may or may not, tie this
thing to twitter so that when I do bother posting, it will kindly inform
people on my behalf.

Oh, yesterday we learned that the baby to arrive in late September is a girl which is something I’ve always wanted.
Obviously I love Jake, I mean who
wouldn’t? He’s funny, and crazy and and and… But I have always wanted a
daughter. Soon I shall be a very proud father of one indeed.

While you ponder all that, do take three and a quarter moments to listen to
my outside stream where you shall
feast your ears on crazy things, mad noises, and other demented happenings
located externally to my house.

I am done here for the time being, and I feel that I would love to get back
into blogging, so will do just that.

good by then I suppose.

This is simply a pointless test

Andre Louis — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:53:14 +0000

This right here is a waste of time and effort so pleas don’t read it. I am
simply testing whether posting from mail actually works or not.
If it does, I will be happy and if it does not, I will be sad… Naturally.

If i were to say, point to my
twitter account for a link test, would it work? We shall see.

I sell SpeedDots tactile Screen Protectors

Quinn — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:05:00 +0000

Who is SpeedDots?

SpeedDots.COM, a California-based company, announces the official release of the SpeedDots Screen Protector, a tactile approach to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch for those who are blind or have low vision, permitting easy navigation and orientation to some of Apple’s most popular touch-screen devices. Using single dots to denote the virtual keyboard, along with a few commonly-found buttons and controls, blind/low vision users can input information more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
In escence, we provide screen protectors for your device with Braille-style dots to enable you to type quicker and easier on your device, as for quite a lot of blind people, typing on a flat surfice is very time-consuming and annoyingly difficult.

SpeedDots tactile Screen-protector for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 4th Gen.

Each protector (including shipping) costs £6.50 in the UK, and €9.00 to Mainland Europe.

In the United States, each protector costs $7.00.
A $3.00 shipping charge applies.

Two types of SpeedDots screen-protectors exist.

Standard: Our standard screen cover has a mark on every letter of the keyboard with the exception of F, and j as
well as all of the standard iPhone controls. This layout is good for people new to the iPhone or people
who do a lot of typing.

Advanced: Our Advanced screen cover Has markings on the letters F, and J, as well as on all of the standard iPhone
controls. If your an advanced iPhone user, or you want a very clean and simple layout, then the advanced
model is for you.

For more information, please use one of the resources below:

To buy in the UK or Mainland Europe: http://SpeedDots.onj.me
UK/Europe distributer email: Speeddots@AndreLouis.COM

To buy in the United states: http://www.SpeedDots.com
United States distributer email: Info@SpeedDots.com

A sort of catchup, and talk of microblogging

Quinn — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:55:00 +0000

It has come to my attention that I haven’t posted a damn thing in here for what some might call ages. This is practically abandonware now, not sure what I’ll do with it.
blogging has changed for me, to microblogging which is far more convenient, gratifying and instantaneous as one can see results within usually, the first few minutes of posting something. Sad, but true.
In any case, I will keep LJ around but if it wasn’t obvious or anything, I’m mostly to be found over there instead of over here where I microblog many times a day for the most part, and where you can follow both my lovely wife and my little boy Jake. yup, even small children blog these days, it’s just a sign of the times don’t ya know?

What else? Aah yes, created myself a youtube channel where i posted exactly *one* video but that will of course grow to be more in the future. MRS louis also has a youtube channel of her own where she posts many videos of Jake at play, and other such fun things should you wish to investigate that at your leasure.

So given my lazyness, I’ll quickly throw around some more links to things I’ve been doing of late.
In no particular order then:
Onj.me, a url shortener for well, shortening urls that isn’t bit.ly met.al goo.gl or any of the others. What for? Simply because I could. Use it, get your friends to use it, it’s something to do. If for no other reason than you can say you know the guy that was sad enough to put the thing online.
We went that one step further and made our own Windows desktop application to shorten urls as you put them in the clipboard, just to make your life that bit easier.

Other things. Hmm. Oh yes, played at a gig on Feb 24 with my dad which you can download from the above link if you wish. Was quite fun, and my first gig in many many months.
My album continues to sell fairly well in the digital stores, at present made just a tad over $350 from it’s creation in August of 2009, so can’t complain too loudly.
Even payed for a 48-second album promo created for me by the very talented
Patrick Perdue as I trust very few people to do quite such a great job at audio, which is nothing personal to Steve
and Derek Lane of course, but he got the right idea for the kind of sound I wanted.

Onj’s TV is now about a year old and some, continuing to bring you quality?… programming from this side of the pond at all hours of the day and night.
Now what? I don’t know. I’m all linked out I think. I think I got all the relevant points out in any case so I’ll put this out there for some reason or another, and continue to read more HP fanfic because this one seems really good so far. Hopefully it’ll stay that way.

good day, and enjoy yourselves. Chances are you won’t hear from me till I turn 28 anyway, as infrequent as I post, so sometime after May 30th. Sad, but true.

Seasons Greeting

Quinn — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:44:00 +0000

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holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious
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for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their
choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all…and a
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recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but
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………in other words “Merry Christmas!”*

The Louis Bin for August 28, 2010

Quinn — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:49:00 +0000

Greetings. Has it been a long time or has it been a very, very long time? I think it’s been an extremely long time. Now all my bases are covered, I can take the time to say that yes, I did a show. As in, actually sat down at the PC and did a show on TBRN and I thought it was rather enjoyable myself.
It was even a bit longer than usual, because nobody was on after me, so we went over the usual 3 hour time limit by about 20 minutes or there abouts. I’m tired apparently, as I wrote seconds not minutes. Um, yeah? How’s about not really?
In any case, go here to download it and learn about what’s been happening with me over the last 8 or so months since I last broadcast personally, and not cohosted with Arfy8820 which I usually do.
In the show you will hear the Oracle, thought to be long dead, Bryan sounding just like the Oracle, scaring many of the participants, a few tracks in which drum solo’s are muchly talked about, much fun with the iPhone 3GS and playing with apps, new tracks from yours truely and the traditional addictive drumming you’ve come to expect. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it.

Tomorrow and Monday is of course the Notting hill Carnival given that it’s the end of August and that’s what happens in August is it not? Naturaly the stream must go ahead and so for the next two days until perhaps Monday night or very early Tuesday morning, microphones will exist outside my window to bring you music, crouds of people, and whatever else may occur during that time. you will probably want to go
here to listen live to it and hopefully enjoy it, be amused, or outright worried by the crazy mad people to be found outside my block of flats in Central London.

With this, I can depart having done what I came to do.
When I shall write in here next I have absolutely no clue. When I will be able to do another show I again have absolutely no clue, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Take care one and all, and from me, goodnight.

An unusual week thus far

Quinn — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:14:00 +0000

Greetings. Told you I wouldn’t abandon LJ and I haven’t. Been quite the week. Since I last posted, many things have happened, or at least given that I was expecting them, a number of little things that then add up to quite a few if that makes sense.
Kirsten and Jake went off on their holiday to Spane for two weeks as of last wednesday. I would’ve been going with them, but a friend of mine from Germany is here on the exact same dates, 7-21 July so he’s staying with me and we’re going site-seeing and geek-shoping etc, so in a way it’s like a holliday but one where I don’t leave my home city.
So far it’s been quite interesting. Haven’t gone anywhere exciting yet, but did introduce him to the local fish and chip shop where he had, of course, fish and chips, not something you can just go get in Germany apparently. He seemd to think it was pretty good as well, so that’s a bonus.
Sleeping alone for the first time and the longest, since my wedding is also strange. Jake isn’t waking me up in the night demanding food at 3 o’clock so I’m sleeping for a lot longer than I would otherwise, and somehow, not feeling particularly great for it. I guess the old body-clock is waiting for the human alarm and it’s not happening, which causes all sorts of strange occurrences to occur, or something.
The fish and chip thing happened on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday, mister German man and my brother took a trip accross town to where Dwayne works, and then mister German man went about his business, with a map on how to get back here. From what he told me last night, he went to Oxford circus, Piccadilly, Hyde park and a couple other places and had a good time. I have some recordings he made actually using the Zoom Q3, which I will be showing in my next show on TBRN whenever that happens.
During that same time, a keyboard player friend of mine Alex came over to visit me. I didn’t know he was bringing a keyboard, only visiting, so we had an impromptu jam right here in my living room, and obviously I had to record it. No way I was going to let an opportunity like that pass me by.
In parts it gets just a little bit clippy, but it’s unedited, and all yours if you’d like to give it a listen
right here.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it. Now please, take this at face-value, ok? It’s better for me if you do.
I’m an OK keyboard player, OK leaning to pretty good, I guess. This isn’t me talking here. I dispise that kind of self-arrogance in anyone, so this is just what I’ve been told. Alex however, is on a totally new level of playingness. What I do, he can do 10 times better. What he does, I can’t dream of doing. So put a somewhat good player and an extremely! good player in a room, provide them keyboards and this is the result.
Naturally, like with most jams, the warmup is average, but I can garontee it does get better. Quite a lot better by the end of it. Nearly a two-hour file there, I think it’s 107 minutes and some.
Comment here if you like, I’d be interested in your thoughts.
On that note, no pun intended, I will go away, read a book, catch up on the madness that is twitter at this time which appears to be mostly about NFB and the iPhone 4, and start my day at some point.
Have fun, and thanks for reading.

Me? On twitter?

Quinn — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:12:00 +0000

Apparently so, yes. To clarify, that does *not* mean I am going to abandon my LJ or even facebook, because though three social networks is quite a damn lot, they all serve a fairly useful purpose. It was actually an article I read on a symbian website of all things that convinced me to try twitter, despite the fact that it didn’t mention it at all.
Here’s a comment taken from my Facebook to Caitlin H, who I hope won’t mind that her name is mentioned here. It’s me writing, not her, but I think it should clarify my feelings on the subject. Caitlin refuses to get twitter, like me two days ago, but sadly stupid things can change your mind, even if they really have no right too.

<----snip---->
Caitlin: I can see why you don’t. I nearly never, ever did. It was an article that I read about the death of Symbian that changed my mind.
Since I’m such a die-hard, iPHone-hating, Apple-are-bastards person, and said left right and everywhere else I’d never own an iPHone because
Symbian would never, ever desert me would it? Would it?? And now it’s gone and done that, well. If I have to replace my trusted, sexy, beautiful
N86, it’ll either be with a Droid phone, or, the god-forsaken iPHone, against my better judgement.
Here’s how I see it. If I can stoop as low as to even *consider* an iPHone, I suppose I can try twitter.
Like the iPhone, the idiots of tweetings have had their chance to be dumb tossers and now twitter’s settled down to what it should be. A place to
post informational stabs. When I saw twitter all over my LJ, not even containing posts from the people who’s LJ’s it was coming from, I got major,
major pissed off. Now it’s somewhat better.
Just like the iPHone 3GS default firmware was pathetic and utterly shite, the latest firmware is something I’d think about while watching grass
grow. Sad that I’ve had to sink this low, but that be the truth of it.
<----snip---->

That ladies and gentlemen is what I said, and having used Twitter for now just over a day, I see the appeal. Like I said, it does not mean I will jump ship totally, I still need more than 140 characters to express myself thank you very much, but Qwitter, the Twitter client I use, is possibly the first ever program to truely support Dolphin’s API so it means I don’t have to use SYstem access or NVDA to access Twitter, like I do with Monopoly. That really gets on my nurves having to change screen-reader to play just one game. However, that game is the best damn thing to come out of the audio game market in such a long time that I just have to play it.
In any case, my twitter name is the same as my LJ name so follow me if you dare. I mean if you wish.
I even got my wife on there too, as she got me into facebook, so I recipricated.
Anyways that’s me done for now. Time to get up and start my very hot Saturday.

Follow Andre on Twitter

Quinn — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:44:51 +0000

Greetings!

You can now follow Andre Louis on twitter:

Twitter User: FreakyFwoof
http://twitter.com/freakyfwoof/

He looks forward to seeing you there!

Cheers!
–Quinn