I’ve got an old Kingston 2GB flash drive and I love it. It’s never failed, it’s damn solid construction, and I love the little LED light on it that flashes when it’s reading or writing.

Do you need a LED light on your flash drive? No, there’s really no reason you would. But I like it – and I missed it when it was gone.

2GB became a little cramped so I upgraded to an 8GB Staples brand flash drive. Thanks Staples. In less than 3 months, the cover broke off. And it didn’t have an LED. I was really missing that LED.

So I went shopping for another flash drive, but Best Buy (who I hate for a number of reasons – but it’s close by so I still shop there on occasion) didn’t have any Kingstons in the store. They did have a sweet deal on a HP model. And again, no LED on the HP flash drive.

I was missing that LED more than ever so I thought I’d just buy a Kingston online. But I wanted to first make sure that the newer Kingston models had the LED. A quick Google provided me with – nothing. No one mentions the LED. They don’t say included or not included – it’s just not mentioned at all. Not on Amazon, not on other sites, not even on Kingston’s website!

But one website (which shall remain nameless) gave me the info I needed. It said YES, the newer models still have the LED light. So I ordered one. Guess what – they were wrong!

Stick this in your Google results – The Kingston 16GB DataTraveler G3 does not have an LED light!

So now I have two new huge flash drives – and no LED. I really miss that LED.

Ok – ‘rock and roll’ can be spelled ‘rock & roll’ and even ‘rock n roll’.
And ‘drum and bass’ is frequently shortened to ‘DNB’ or ‘DnB’.
But I don’t think ‘R&B’ is ever shortened to ‘RnB’ like I did in my last post.
I could go in and edit it but I’d rather just call myself out for that brain fart.

I was recording all my vinyl last year (it took so long I may have started in 2008 or 2009) and I stopped last year when I was 99.something percent done. All that was remaining was a bunch of B-sides that I didn’t care about. Our Darkness by Anne Clarke – classic. The b-side ‘The Sitting Room’ – yeah, whatever.

So I finished those up today – and Excel says that my recording project is 99.9027 percent complete. Why not 100?
Goddamn J.M. Silk! That’s why!
I’ve got a nasty scratch on Music Is The Key and the Basement Key version just ain’t gonna play without skipping.

Also, I should say ‘the first part of my recording project’. It took literally years to do this part (time management ain’t always my strength) – and that was only the top 4 ‘good crates’ of music. I’ve still got 6 more crates to go through – a lot of it is complete shit, but there is some good and even great stuff in there that just didn’t fit into those 4 main crates at whatever time I sorted them.

Curtis McClain is sitting in one of those ‘lesser’ crates with a bunch of his friends yelling “Lets get busy!”
Maybe next month….year….sigh

Sigh.
I haven’t posted any mixes for a while – so I posted a recent one yesterday.
I uploaded it here, to Mininova, to Piratebay, and to House-Mixes.
It was only after I had uploaded it EVERYWHERE that I found out that I mis-labeled it and it was the wrong mix.
It was still a decent mix but I had attached the wrong tracklist to it and I’m a stickler for accuracy.
So now I have to delete it everywhere and re-upload it.