visual blogging.NET
I liked google today. Here is the image they used in case you missed it or it didn’t show in your country
I don’t know if anyone outside of the UK has ever seen Poirot, but the image above is charming. The G is the great Hercule Poirot,
and brilliantly accurately, the L, which is pretty much a stroke of genius, is Inspector Japp:
Whoever the artist who drew that was… please know YOUR WORK WAS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Also, I switched to Kubuntu 10.04 LTS today, for various reasons I am not going to go through. Actually I will go through it. I am consistently getting invalid results on certain projects on WCG and I suspect something in openSUSE’s software stack to be at fault. My mum’s machine has had no problems and it runs Ubuntu. So, really, I want to check my hardware is okay. So far there have been no problems on Kubuntu but there’s not enough data yet. Anyway I’m running the KDE4.5 packages.
new iron maiden album, a review
new iron maiden album, a review: pretty okay. I love the jangly guitar tones. Strats are sexy. It isn’t quite 7th Son or Somewhere in Time, but it’s pretty good. I think it’s probably better than Dance of Death or the last one, whose name currently escapes me. The sound is still quite muddy and a long way from the crystal clear punchiness of their old albums, but they seem to invoke more atmosphere on this one. There’s a lot of reverb and janglyness.
I am now listening to music on a program called Clementine. I got fed up of Amarok2.x. We are up to 2.3 now and the interface stll makes my computer seem like a pentium 2 trying to run Crysis, and every so often it will decide that I’m not allowed to listen to any more music until I kill the process and restart it. Highly annoying since it will also lose all my added-this-session playlist data if it can’t do a clean shutdown. How do you get to 2.3 and still make it feel like a 2.0 alpha? Amarok used to be great and for a while it was forgivable since ALL KDE software suddenly went terrible as it was moved to KDE4, but Amarok never seems to have come out of that dip. The devs seem to have lost the plot.
So I am using Clementine, which is a port of Amarok 1.4 to Qt4, and it is pretty good. It even has crossfade (ZOMG), which, before now, I had never actually heard, and OH YES it adds something. Apparently it runs on Windows and Mac too. http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/
So yes I went to the doctor on Thursday and I am now waiting for test results. Hmm. Everything has settled down a bit but it is still not ideal. It may be possible, and is indeed most likely, that I have irritable bowel syndrome :-\ which if the case is sort of good news and bad news. The good news is it doesn’t change my life expectancy. The bad news is it will make life inconvenient. Or it may be that I’ve developed a food intolerance. But I am being tested for loads of stuff. If the results are is unclear I have the joys of a ‘back passage inspection’, as my doctor put it, to look forward to. WOO.
also I fixed my feed. huzzah?
