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As much as I really hate tie ins with online music stores such as iTunes, releases such as a live Moby recording cant be simply ignored. So I may have to swallow my pride to check out ….
“extensive critically acclaimed US tour in Fall 2009, Moby recorded an intimate live performance at the Montreal iTunes store to a captivated audience. ‘Moby iTunes Live from Montreal’ becomes available around the world at iTunes …
For this special recording Moby performed tracks from his most recent album ‘Wait For Me,’ as well as some other classics from previous albums, with a rare ‘stripped back‘ set consisting of just guitar, piano, violin and vocals. Joining him for this incredible and unique performance were the very talented lead vocalists from his tour - Kelli Scarr and Inyang Bassey. “
new album from Jesse Malin
Posted by monster in General, Music
Jesse Malin is very happy to announce that my new album “Love It To Life” is finished and will be released in stores on April 27, 2010 on Side One Dummy Records. It is produced by Ted Hutt (Lucero, The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly), and YES it will available in VINYL, as well as CD and all the other digital stuff!!! The record was recorded with my new band, The St. Marks Social.
I’ve not yet seen the album listed on the usual online stores yet to preorder yet.
Turin Brakes - Outburst
Posted by monster in General, Music
News of album releases are coming in rapidly now. The latest is for Turin Brakes with their new album Outburst due out on 1st March 2010. If you can wait that long then head onto their website (http://www.turinbrakes.com/) as has details of a free track download from the forthcoming album.
Plus a video of the creation of the album at http://www.vimeo.com/8715360RegardsTBx
Delays - live album in the pipeline
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The Delays will be releasing a live album -
Latest on the live album is that mixing is underway. This will be a limited edition featuring both audio and exclusive photographs and will be available for you prior to the release of our new album ‘Star Tiger Star Ariel’
Wikihood - iphone app
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I came across a great use of the iPhone and it’s location capabilities. Essentially it uses your location to query a wiki. The information it retrieved and the way it presented it was great.
I would recommend giving it a go.
Iphone
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I have just changed mobiles from a Samsung Soul to an iPhone. As much as it is a brilliant app platform it does have a few annoying absences on the phone front. For example the Soul had multiple modes such as car, outside, meeting and so on. Groups on the Soul can be given ringtones as well as individuals (an app opportunity to create the effect?)
My last critism is the predictive text isn’t as quick as the Soul. Although that maybe partly because of the full keyboard.
Final observation is that the Bluetooth could easily offer a lot more without needing to resort to jailbreak.
and the weather is …
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and our flickr activity is …
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Snow & More Snow
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The snow may cause disruption & no end of problems, but there are also opportunities, like this …
and some local pics ….
the morning after …?
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Either someone had a good New Year’s celebration or the council are as good at collecting glass for recycling as they are gritting the roads.
Greate Quote
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In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-
Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
SF Metropole Hotel - Stay
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SF Metropole Hotel - Stay
Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins
business trips can sound very glamourous and fun. But the reality is are from it. San Fransisco in the winter is still wet and cold, as you can see from this set of pictures taken whilst there on business.
Some Simple things to protect MySQL
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MySQL is one of the most common DBs for web hosting. This article has a bunch of good basic steps to help protect your MySQL instance from attacks. None of them are rocket science for anyone with some fmiliarity with PHP.
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
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My favourite bit is about 1 minute in with Animal.
Gomez @ Southampton Uni
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Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins
Photos from Gomez’ gig at Southampton university on my flickr site. Admittedly taken with the Samsung Soul mobile, which to be frank isn’t that great for this sort of thing.
A reasonable gig, but I’ve seen Gomez perform a lot better. he big surprise of the night was Frightened Rabbit, the support band who put in a very impressive support set. This is a band with lots of potential.
Amazing piece of video
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The warped media industry
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a rather good article about the frustrating and crazy behaviour of the media industry (film, TV & music) towards innovation and technology. Although a lot of this is not new thinking it is well expressed, and also highlighted in the light of the fact that recent findings have shown Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) actually have helped advertising not hindered it.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/dvr-tvs-new-bff
Cookie Monster ……
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Google logo in my honour …
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That was nice of Google UK - a logo in my honour. Well not quite, its a relative - cookie monster, and its Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary.
Free Prodigy download
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The Prodigy are giving away a free download of a remix of the title track of their recent album ‘Invaders Must Die’ from their official website, Theprodigy.com. The free download will be availbe until the 28th Octber - so get in there quickly.
