So I'm gearing up to hit the stage at Balance in Calgary this past weekend, which I'd been booked to play on quite short notice. Sitting out on the patio with great weather, great friends, and absolutely fantastic caesars, the night was shaping up to be a good one.
However, on a slightly sour note, I appear to be one of the lucky ones in the mass-username clambering. Twitter posts (
1,
2,
3,
4) from Gareth Emery show he wasn't as successful as someone pulled the
/garethemery username from under him before he had a shot (which oddly goes nowhere at the moment). Same goes for
/paulvandyk,
/arminvanbuuren,
/markusschulz, and I'm sure countless others. What has been quietly dubbed as 'Facesquatting' (Facebook squatting) has actually turned into quite an annoyance and brings to mind the privacy policy of Facebook and in contract
Twitter's new rollout of verified accounts just a few days previous.
Regardless to the obvious hiccups of the situation, Facebook's custom username URL's have been rolled out and you can effectively
update yours and view my appropriate pages at the same time, as linked above.
Oh, and the gig went well. BT's new tune "Rose of Jericho" remixed by Sultan and Ned Shepard tore the roof off ;)
Until next time!