December 2008
27 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Kanye West (29)
Coheed and Cambria (3)
Billy Talent (3)
Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Frederick Johnson, and Ron Brinkmann (2)
Drum & Bass Essentials (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Kanye West (29)
Billy Talent (3)
Coheed and Cambria (3)
Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, Frederick Johnson, and Ron Brinkmann (2)
Drum & Bass Essentials (1)
Imported from …
Amazon UK MP3 Store →
I normally buy my music in a physical form, but finally I have a better option for downloading a song I really want, in a lovely DRM free, higher bit-rate, cheaper alternate to the awful iTunes Store.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Klaxons (14)
Bloc Party (8)
Editors (3)
Alexisonfire (3)
Arctic Monkeys (3)
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RoboCop
by Kanye West = VERY GOOD.
Mega Failz
I’ve been wearing my underwear the wrong way round all day..
Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraq trip →
Is it probably a bit of a understatement to say he deserves it?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
Klaxons (8)
Kanye West (8)
Greg Brookman & Tim Coe (5)
Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Scott Bourne, and Alex Lindsay (2)
Phlogiston (2)
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8bitpeoples.com →
I forget how much I love 8bit music.
I'm going to try Linux.
samwalton:
bradwilks:
Cheers man.
Just shooting up my docs to Google and I’ll be installing.
I thought you had an external hard drive? Anyway, good luck. Not that you need it, installations are so easy these days.
Yeah I do have a external hard drive. But OS X has eaten it for Time Machine and I can’t risk deleting EVERYTHING from it incase I forget some stuff buried deep in my...
I'm going to try Linux.
samwalton:
Well Arch is pretty awesome and it all works out fine if you follow the install guide word for word.
I guess it depends how much control you want over your distro, with Ubuntu you’re pretty much stuck with one of their DE’s and repositories that are full of packages that are months old. Then again bleeding edge packages tend to break a lot of things…
Go with Ubuntu, you can always...
I'm going to try Linux.
samwalton:
bradwilks:
Wish me luck.
Good luck! Which distro?
I was just going to play it safe with Ubuntu. Unless there’s a reason why I shouldn’t or because there is a better distro?
I'm going to try Linux.
Wish me luck.
Ducking an iPhone Annoyance →
mattmcinerney:
A work around for the iPhone’s lack of curse words in it’s dictionary. Involves creating contact names for all the curse words you’re tired of being auto-corrected.
An editable auto-correct dictionary should be added, I’m sick of when typing something like “See you in ten xx” turn into “See you in ten fx”. There is no relation between ‘xx’...
For Brad →
Mission objective complete!
Snow Day
samwalton:
Mhmm.
Yeah boy!
The New Camera
As mentioned previously, I aquired a new DSLR Nikon D80 camera. It’s a lovely piece of kit.
Now I’ve finally looked around for a week or so and have purchased and recieved a lens to use with it, this being a Nikkor 50mm f1.8 lens (or something like that). Finally, I have a camera that can take pictures, and beautiful ones at that (or at least attempting to).
It’s a very...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30) →
Greg Brookman & Tim Coe
Anti-Flag
Alter Bridge
Bloc Party
Alexisonfire
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