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Sigur Ros – Free With Independent News Paper!

30 Friday Jan 2009

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FREE EXCLUSIVE SIGUR RÓS CD THIS SATURDAY WITH THE INDEPENDENT

For more information and to listen to a preview track from the CD, go to www.independent.co.uk/sigurros

Offered in association with Q magazine, ‘We Play Endlessly’ features nine tracks taken from three of their critically acclaimed albums, including the hugely popular Hoppípolla and Sæglópur.
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download Taxation

19 Friday Dec 2008

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New York’s Governor has started to address the down turn in revenue by starting to add taxation to items considered to luxuries, for example soft drinks, cinema tickets, and media downloads.  The question is will the companies providing the download services absorb the taxation, or add it to their prices.  If they do the latter then the tax could be seen to potentially fueling illegal downloads.

NME coverage of the story here.

Quiet on the blogging front – wave bye bye, say hello

10 Wednesday Dec 2008

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I’ve been a little on the quiet side on the blogging front, as I’ve been busy with work related activities.

Firstly getting SeeWhy’s first SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM customer up and running on a platform combination we’ve not really dealt with much before namely JBoss 4.2.2 on Red Hat Linux. Taking into account the fact that the installation included setting up the environment and a jBPM source machine the install went very quickly and smoothly.

Secondly, I shall be parting company with SeeWhy in the New Year for pastures new, and green (literally) as I’ll be going to work for Specsavers as an Integration Architect. The Specsavers interview process has been an interesting experience which included, psychometrics tests, stand up presentations, and technical exams, along with the traditional face to face conversation.

So in January I’d imagine that my blogging activities will be a bit on the slow side as I’ll be pretty busy getting my feet under the desk as they say with the new job.

A relative …

06 Thursday Nov 2008

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and on Colbert report after healthy food imposed here.

Top Gear’s Stig gets a gong

30 Thursday Oct 2008

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Top Gear’s infamous Stig collected a Gong for Top Gear as part of the British National Television Awards, as Top Gear won the best factual program.  I dont know which is funnier the Stig collecting the gong, or Top Gear winning a factual programme over BBC’s quality documentary production.

Muppets, go musical

24 Friday Oct 2008

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It turns out that the Muppets have got a YouTube channel now. Being a music fan, I thought’d have a look at their musical offerings. This one made me laugh …

Oh and if you want a confirmed view of the internet then …

 

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September Fuel Prices

14 Tuesday Oct 2008

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With the latest fuel prices update we can see a small downward trend, which reflects the slowing economies.

 

Some stats for the month:

Fuel Type Difference

11.4

increase from previous month (unleaded)

-0.3

increase from previous month (diesel)

-1.3

%inflation (unleaded)

-0.34

%inflation (diesel)

-1.6

The Power of Art when combined with Autism

09 Thursday Oct 2008

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I came across an tremendous video on Open Culture which showed what an autistic artist could recall and draw beautifully after a helicopter flight over Rome. The result is amazing in both scale, detail not to mention its simple beauty.

Mental illnesses are often portrayed or seen as an affliction or handicap. But as the video shows it can also be a facilitator to creativity and beauty.

 

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Several cool Black Cab Sessions …

19 Friday Sep 2008

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Brian Wilson…

 

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FabChannel – Quality Streaming Live Concerts

12 Friday Sep 2008

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I’ve come across a rather interesting resource called FabChannel.com.  FabChannel are providing quality video streams of whole concerts from legitimate sources, either licensed concert recordings from music companies such as Universal and V2 or professional recorded performances from Dutch based venues.  The video quality is good enough that it could be expanded to watch full screen with only a small amount of graininess on a 1600x1200monitor with streaming through a Flash player. FabChannel’s performances cover a wide range of well known artists such as The View and Martha Wainwright, and they claim to have got over 900 performances available already.

 Martha Wainright on FabChannel

The site also has integration with last.fm and can also provide useful artist bios etc. To generate income to pay for the service there are some adverts on the site, but they’re not annoying popup’s etc.