This is the error I just got from the game ‘Building & Co‘. I’m guessing something’s not right. Just not sure what…
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Friday, February 27th, 2009This is a beginning, not the end
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009So, being the Barenaked Ladies überfan I am, I had to blog something. Steven Page, lead singer and secondary guitarist with Barenaked Ladies, has parted company to go do some solo projects of his own.
Honestly, I can’t say I’m overly surprised. I always expected something like this to happen eventually. I could analyse the hell out of this, or go all Chris Crocker over it, but I’m not going to be doing that in a rush.
Instead, I’d like to say I think it marks a new beginning. The band’s sound has always been a mish-mash of all the band-members’ own musical likes and dislikes, and that produced the unique sound they had. It meant they often drifted around between genres, and that made it great.
Steve reckoned he had a more folky background, so I’ll be intrigued to see what sort of direction they take in future. I’d noticed Kevin Hearn moving more to the front with songs, and Jim was submitting more which made for some great songs. Plus all the guys can sing, so they’ll definitely cope on that front. Be intrigueing to hear how (or even if) they handle ‘Steve’ songs.
As for Steve, he reckons he has a load of new projects up and coming. The Art & Time Ensemble work he did a while ago was pretty good, and I imagine a studio recording of something similar would be absolutely wonderful. The Vanity Project looks likely (to me) to turn into a ‘real’ band, and Steve says he has a second album on the way, so I look forward to that – the eponymous debut was a great album.
So it all looks promising to me. To quote a Kevin Hearn song – This is a beginning, not the end!
There’s good and bad to doing this
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009BBC NEWS | Technology | Online child abuse images warning.
How’s this for a double-edged sword. I agree with it in terms of blocking access to these ‘child abuse’ images. Nobody needs access to things like that.
Then again, what next? The IWF could start adding other ‘bad’ websites that are covered by UK law. Then they start adding other things deemed ‘inappropriate’ and before long, they’re blocking stuff left and right. Suddenly the internet (at least in the UK) has lost its impartiality and free speech. Meanwhile, those who want access to the bad stuff they blocked in the first place have found ways around it, and aren’t affected anyway.
I don’t think it’ll be long before we see a totally regulated, tiered internet. Suddenly all the value of the internet is gone.
Maybe the better option is a concerted international effort to stamp out the people producing these bad images in the first place. There’s been a lot of progress on that front, but many of these people are off hiding in countries that either have no laws against it, or don’t care, so there’s nothing that can be done.
Eventually these sick people get brought to justice – and as usual the people who had no involvement suffer in some way.
DOS USB boot drive – Vista Forums
Monday, February 23rd, 2009DOS USB boot drive – Vista Forums.
I keep losing this one, very useful if you need to boot to DOS to flash a BIOS, or do something else. Now with most PCs not having any sort of disc drive, it’s hard to do it, and Vista won’t allow you to make a bootable USB drive by default.
YouTube – T Mobile Advert 2009 Full Version HQ
Saturday, February 21st, 2009YouTube – T Mobile Advert 2009 Full Version HQ.
Really is awesome!
Room to swing a lolcat
Friday, February 13th, 2009
I bought some new hard disks and replaced all my originals. I went from a 500GB drive, two 300GB drives, and a 80GB I used for virtual machines and things. I now have two 500GB drives for boot and virtual machines, plus two terabyte drives for data. I’ve also defected to Western Digital after the Seagate debacle recently; I actually sent back a terabyte Seagate drive – unopened – because I didn’t trust it!
I have two 500GB Caviar Blue drives they are supposedly faster. I also have two Caviar Green drives for storage, as they are low power, and cooler running, but a bit slower. Well that’s fine, as they mainly stream data, so as long as it comes off quickly, it’s good enough.
I copied the data using – ironically enough – Seagate DiscWizard. Western Digital’s disk copying software doesn’t work if the SATA controllers are set to AHCI mode, which mine are. It just crashed and burned and decided it couldn’t see my CD drive. DiscWizard, however, saw all the discs, and copied everything over quite happily. It just has to see a Seagate drive, but doesn’t care which direction you go with the data. It’s based on Acronis TrueImage. It seems Ghost, formerly the darling of disk cloning, is now a weird attempt at backup. Then again, that’s just like most of Symantec’s software.
So far, things seem quicker, and I have a ton of space free now. We’ll see how it goes!
Snow Joke
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Here’s the top 25, pop pickers!
Sunday, February 1st, 2009So, as requested, here’s the top 25 tracks, according to iTunes:
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Artist |
Song |
Album |
Play Count |
| Barenaked Ladies | Adrift | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 113 |
| The Vanity Project | Wilted Rose | The Vanity Project | 113 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Maybe You’re Right | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 97 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Big Bang Theory Theme | Big Bang Theory Theme – Single | 92 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Running Out of Ink | Barenaked Ladies Are Men | 87 |
| Guster | Ramona | Guster On Ice – Live From Portland, Maine | 86 |
| Guster | (Nothing But) Flowers | Guster On Ice – Live From Portland, Maine | 83 |
| The Vanity Project | Hit And Run | The Vanity Project | 82 |
| Guster | Ruby Falls | Ganging Up On The Sun | 78 |
| Guster | Jesus On the Radio | Keep It Together | 76 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Another Spin | Barenaked Ladies Live: Verona 11.29.05 | 75 |
| The Divine Comedy | Come Home Billy Bird | Absent Friends | 75 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Fun & Games | Barenaked Ladies Are Men | 74 |
| Guster | Dear Valentine | Ganging Up On The Sun | 69 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Serendipity | Barenaked Ladies Are Men | 67 |
| Family Guy | TV Medley | Family Guy: Live in Las Vegas | 66 |
| Guster | Red Oyster Cult | Guster On Ice – Live From Portland, Maine | 66 |
| Guster | Diane | Keep It Together | 65 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Adrift | All New Revue – Live at the Glenn Gould Studio | 64 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Sound Of Your Voice | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 63 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind | As You Like It | 62 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Wind It Up | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 62 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Vanishing | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 61 |
| The Mavericks | All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down | The Best Of The Mavericks | 61 |
| Barenaked Ladies | Adrift | Au Naturale Live: Columbus, OH 07-14-04 | 60 |
Some turn up twice due to the fact there might be a live, and album version of a song.
According to Last.fm, however:
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Not sure what it proves…
