http://www.andy-gale.com Likes football, loves music and plays around with computers for a living Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:29:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. Please ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/10/21/top-10-classic-tv-adverts/ 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: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour Good. I enjoyed this book. It was - ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/09/08/books-ive-read-recently/ 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 ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/09/04/lykke-li-youth-novels/ 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 ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/09/04/top-30-kids-tv-intros/ 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. http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/08/27/mixmag-album-artwork/ 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 ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/08/04/cakephp-deleting-and-the-afterdelete-callback/ 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 ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/08/04/fabric-and-fabric-live-cds/ They say everyday is a school day. The things I have learned on this school day are: Cypher from The Matrix is Ralph Cifaretto in The Sopranos Avoid angry people in the Quiet Carriage Other things ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/08/01/things-i-learnt-today/ 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: Obtain suit [Bought 7:45pm, Monday] Obtain footware to wear with aforementioned ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/07/12/stuff-to-do-before-holiday/ 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 ... http://www.andy-gale.com/2008/07/11/kevin-pietersen-v-south-africa/