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[11 May 2020|02:19pm] |
I am in the process of listening to or acquiring more of the following artists: [Edit]
( moo )
If you have any suggestions for music to add, I will most likely ignore your suggestions and/or dismiss your taste outright.
Ocasionally I will get off my high horse and have a gander to what other people have said, but I'm really fucking picky.
With the above in mind, feel free to post any suggestions :)
Although a better idea of what I'm listening to is to look at iamtef on last.fm.
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[03 Jul 2008|04:10pm] |
Does anyone want this my bloody valentine ticket I have spare for this evening's concert in glasgow ?
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| my bloody valentine 2008 |
[24 Jun 2008|11:52pm] |
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| I am a consumer whore, and how! |
[24 Jun 2008|06:44pm] |
I now have Python Programming by Zelle, SICP, and The Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.
MUJI was fun as always, and I also got myself some new headphones - the HD280s.
Nik: I also saw someone dressed as Sgt Frog:
 
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[14 Jun 2008|05:00pm] |
Apparently tonight at the studios is free but ticketed, and It seems the ones avaliable from underground nation and ripping have gone already.
Does anyone know if there are going to be tickets on the door too ?
Edit: And if it all goes wrong - is there much else on tonight?
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[11 Jun 2008|07:29pm] |
Success! This afternoon I wrote a scraping toolkit in python to make my life easier.
def skyscraper():
s=Session()
# get cookies
s.fetch("http://www.skyscanner.net/")
# grab day view
r= Request("http://www.skyscanner.net/gbp/flights/plh/lgw/
080924/").get('children',1)
out=s.fetch(r)
for x in out.match("£\d+.\d+"):
print x
This means I am one gigantic leap closer to destroying the horror of our big ball of mud scraper (vbscript/xslt/xpath/vb6/regexes)
It also supports proxies, and tracks cookies and referers for the session.
Also we are very close to getting a testing environment too. Wonders never cease.
Unsuprisingly it is about 1% of the size of the original code.
( Round 2 )
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| New Books: |
[07 Jun 2008|02:52am] |
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I got the "Ashley Book of Knots" which is about the size of the yellow pages, and Wayshowing by Per Mollerup (Which is about environmental Signage).
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[31 May 2008|02:20pm] |
Echochrome looks like an amazing game - the trick is that you use the camera to manipulate the level - it is very hard to explain, but very easy to see in a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfICeBtVv8U
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[30 May 2008|08:34pm] |
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/30/news/Japan-Closet-Woman.php
Homeless Japanese woman arrested after living undetected in man's closet for a year
A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.
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[27 May 2008|03:01am] |
I'm going to miss my mum.
Woken up at two, we gathered around her in bed to wait for the inevitable.
Just before she passed away, I let out a rather loud fart. We couldn't help but giggle, minutes away from her death. It is times like this I realise how much I love my family.
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[20 May 2008|10:46am] |
I have the LocoRoco Song stuck in my head.
GTAIV is an amazing game, even if I spend most of the time just crushing pedestrians.
I am now a 'Visual Basic 6' developer. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bastard's reaction to my vb book this morning was fairly descriptive: "Interesting Book?" "No" "Boring Book? Horrible Book! Horrible Book!".
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[13 May 2008|02:39pm] |
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's
openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect
Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a
result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
Oops.
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[08 May 2008|12:06pm] |
I'm normally reluctant to jump when 'tagged' but honeypossum made a kind request - that I would post what music has been going around in my head recently.
So in no particular order, here are seven tracks for your amusement:
1. Yura Yura Tekioku (ゆらゆら帝国) - Konchuu Rokku (昆虫ロック)
I found out about this particular Japanese Psych-Rock band by accident a while back. I think I stumbled onto their myspace page of all places. Regardless this is quite fun. In lieu of no video for this song, you can have one for Hakkoutai (発光体) instead.
2. Justice - Phantom I & II
In fact I think I am in love with the entirety of Justice - Cross, so here is a youtube link for Part 1 and Part 2. The youtube encoding quality doesn't really do it justice (ahem). This french house album has been a bit of a fixture over the last couple of months.
3. Helen Love - First Boyfriend.
pinkoi sent me some helen love, knowing that I like Shonen Knife, and it was a good idea. I seem to have a weakness for bubblegum punk pop. The lyrics are rather fun too. A few of the songs are avaliable to listen to on their myspace (Debbie Loves Joey is another stuck in my head).
4. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device.
I hadn't listened to this since I lost all my music. Best played loud. youtube link. I found this out (sadly) via video games and It's been stuck in my head since.
5. Decendants - Suburban Home.
"I want to be stereotyped. I want to be Classified."
Yet another angry punk song I listen to at work to calm me down.
And this time you get spongebob montage on youtube.
6. Frank Zappa - Willie the pimp.
It was my coworker who got me in to this. We've been on a bit of a musical exchange program. I have found myself rather enjoying hot rats. Now obligatory youtube link
7. Mouse on Mars - Inocular
Due to a mix up I thought this was called Skik, but it turns out these germans have been crafty and split their tracks over a number of cd-tracks. This is actually Inocular A and Inocular B.
This has been the soundtrack of last year. Slowly building up from a rythmic noise that sounds like rubbing glasses together before getting to the driving scraping sound. Rather melodic and too short for its own good. Here is a 12 MB at 320 kbps
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