{"id":63,"date":"2005-05-05T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:17:40","slug":"even-more-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Even More Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long, long time ago, in a far away galaxy, I wrote<\/a> that I had suddenly discovered by reading my domain stats that people actually read my website. Quite a shocker at the time. I was even more shocked later that day to discover that the mighty comic genuis and Ubuntu<\/a> hacker that is Jeff Waugh<\/a> had linked to my blog<\/a> regarding my then vapourware (en_gb sp.) Ubuntu Jingle<\/a>, inspired by the LUG Radio<\/a> joke about the Um Bongo<\/a> advert<\/a>. Jeff, being syndicated through Planet Gnome<\/a>, Planet Debian<\/a> and Planet Ubuntu<\/a> caused a pleasant flurry of hits over the following weeks that meant I had to produce the jingle.<\/p>\n

So then I checked my stats a few weeks ago to find the domain stats control panel for http:\/\/www.umbongo.com in my referrers list. Hilarious. So now I’m watching them watching me watching them. Thankfully they don’t seem to be upset by the jingle, well I haven’t heard from them anyway. I don’t know, maybe it’s free advertising or something. Relieved.<\/p>\n

The jingle itself was included in LUG Radio episode 25<\/a>, with Aq<\/a> doing the words over the top.<\/p>\n

Forward to today. I check my domain stats again, I like to know whats going on, it’s good to see where you hits come from, check for 404 errors, see what google search terms point at me etc.<\/p>\n

I see a referral from ubuntuforums<\/a> and investigate. Maybe someone checked out my blog after reading a post on there or something. Nope, it’s a LUG Radio<\/a> listener called Saik0 (sadly I can’t find a web address, so no link) pointing out my jingle<\/a> and doing some good LUG Radio advocacy at the same time.<\/p>\n

And check this: he made it his Ubuntu login sound. Thats gonna crack him up after a while, but wow. I feel all important. I just wish I had been able to do a better version. By the time I did it, I’d had so many hassles I just wanted to get it out of the door. It sounds muffly to my ears. Maybe I’ll do a better one soon.<\/p>\n

But for the uninitiated, here’s my original<\/a> (~3MB uncompressed .wav).<\/p>\n

You can download LUG Radio episode 25 from here<\/a> (aka Season 2 Episode 13). The jingle appears at just after 57 minutes, but you should just listen to the whole show anyway \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Or just get the snippet of the LUG Radio version<\/a> of the jingle from here (104KB .ogg in .tar.bz2).<\/p>\n

So, thanks Saik0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Oh, incidentally, if you want some other Um Bongo goodies, like a Windows screensaver, the Um Bongo theme tune, mobile phone ringtones and wallpapers, have a look at the Um Bongo downloads<\/a> and the Um Bongo mobile phone downloads<\/a>. There, that should keep the lawyers happy.<\/p>\n

And drink it in the Congo \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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