It’s been a long time…

… I should’na left you, without a dope beat to step to…

Well, almost a year since my last post – yikes! In my defence, it’s been a very busy year and the lack of broadband at home makes doing anything online tricky. Must get that sorted.

In the meantime, Treehugginghippycrap has moved to new hosting and there’s still some work to do tidying things up post move. I feel like the virtual boxes are still cluttering up the virtual hallway… I’ve still been posting like a mad badger to Flickr; photosets of Ireland, Barcelona and more Stonehenge and Salisbury to come (when i get round to titling, tagging and geotagging). I’ve also started posting work related stuff on the company blog (you can find juicy GIS and survey related nuggets over at the Wessex Archaeology site)  and been thoroughly enjoying the microblogging wonder that is Twitter; more about that later.

And taking at least some of the wind out of my sails, gotta love web coincidence: The post title is taken from a classic tune called ‘I know ya got soul’ by Eric B and Rakim, one of my favourite tunes and i thought it summed things up nicely. Looking deeper, it does appear that apologetic posts regarding not posting are quite common on the interweb, and at least some use the same title as this post: I just wanted to check the lyric so googled it and found this site whose owner had the exact same idea. Brilliant. Just goes to show, if you have an idea, chances are someone else had it first. Parallel evolution, coincidence, or those quantum thought waves travelling back in time causing ripples of deja vu travelling forwards towards me; i don’t know.

Talking of ‘I know ya got soul’, if you don’t know this fantastic tune, go find it; it’s on the album ‘Paid in full’ which also features ‘I ain’t no joke’ and ‘Eric B is president’. It also provided the sample used in the chorus to Marrs’ 1987 number 1 hit ‘Pump up the Volume’ and which was reputedly the first UK No.1 to be sample based. So there you go.