My colleague Pete just posted the Chewits advert to Facebook, which reminded me I hadn’t yet finished this post. So in the style of quite a few websites, not naming any names, here is a list of YouTube videos, constituting my favourite TV ads from when I were a boy.
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After my holiday, I’ve recently rediscovered reading. I’ve been flying through books at quite a rate, well for me at least.
I’ve written a few capsule reviews that you may find interesting: (more…)
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This was recommended to me in Mixmag ages ago. After a couple of listens I’m now starting to really enjoy it. The Swedish may be rubbish at most Olympic sports but they can certainly do pop. I’m classifying this as pop as even though it has got a slightly electronic element, it is about 50 BPM too slow to be considered even slightly dancey by me.
Although Youth Novels is more down tempo than either of their efforts, I’ll wager both Lily Allen and Kate Nash went home and had a little cry for their souls after hearing this album. The little Swedish pop pixie is even giving away a free album track on Last.fm called Dance Dance Dance so you can try before you buy.
The highlight for me is the track Breaking it Up. I recommend you give this album a hearing.
Buy? Lykke Li - Youth Novels
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My Old Dear, bless her cottons, got me a children’s TV DVD for my birthday. To be honest, I’ve been afraid to open it. Maybe it isn’t as good as I remember it? Turns out, I need not have worried. What an immense introduction it had! Children’s TV intros, they made the programs really, didn’t they? I have spent weeks trawling around YouTube trying to find my favourites. So, here they are in top 30 order. This is a blog after all.
Read on, it’s worth it, trust me.
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Just a quick note, I’ve finally found somewhere that you can obtain the Mixmag album artwork from. Excellent news. This months electro effort by Hervé is most definitely worth a listen.
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Here is the problem I just had. I was trying to delete an image off the disk after all references to it in the database had gone - kinda like unlink(). I couldn’t work out how to access the data in the model. I need to know the filename, so I can delete it. It seems that the only way to do it is:
Define a var to hold the filename
private $_tmpImageName;
Populate this in the beforeDelete() callback
function beforeDelete() { $this->_tmpImageName = $this->read(null, $this->id); return true; }
Then access it in the afterDelete() callback, with something like this:
function afterDelete() { unlink($this->_tmpImageName['Image']['name']); return true; }
If you know of a better way, let me know.
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I’m a FabricFirst member which basically means Fabric send me their latest CD every month and I give them £7 every month. It’s a good deal, their CDs are rarely a let down, even if they have been mostly only used once. They go in to my PC and are ripped to 320kps MP3s, tagged and then go straight on to my iPod where they are listened to over and over.
Until recently however, none of them had any album artwork. For someone who likes to obsessively tag up all his MP3s this is hard to take. But after some frantic Googling, I found a repository of Fabric album artwork so all is again well in the world.
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They say everyday is a school day. The things I have learned on this school day are:
I’m going on holiday to Cyprus tomorrow and have had a list as long as my arm to complete all week. I won’t lie to you, the Java Assignment took up most of the time, but here is my current progress:
Although, I can’t help but notice that the cricket starts at 11am. What odds I just sit and watch that all day?
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The man can bat and what a brilliantly enthused celebration when he reach his ton. He starts the second day unbeaten on 104. It was Kevin Pietersen’s day, there’s no doubt about that. I can understand the South African’s annoyance though, with the very minor technicality of him technically being South African and all.
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