When I read a link on the home page of the BBC News website titled “Mowlam’s widower seeing Short”, I have two thoughts:
Rocky Lhotka writes that Software Is Too Darn Hard, citing that plumbing issues distract from spending time with business functionality. It’s a post on Visual Studio Magazine. Ah – a magazine for an IDE. Need I say more?
Then: “The computer industry is populated largely by people who want to build low-level stuff, not solve high-level business issues”. Really? Because it’s the high-level stuff that’s really interesting.
But I guess we’ll still get people who want to build the ultimate doubly linked-list library, rather than help their customers. Because that’s what students get trained to do.
I was going to blog about the launch of Yahoo Go, but then I realised that I have a life.
“And I’d tear out the pages
That I’ve got in these books
Just to find you some words
Just to get some reward
And I’ll show you all the photographs
That I ever got took
And I’ll play you old 45’s
That now mean nothing to me”
Ricky Ross, Deacon Blue, 1989
There was a time where Greatest Hits meant something: the culmination of a long illustrious career packaged into one album demonstrating a breadth of artistic skills. In recent years it seems that everyone has a Greatest Hits album, and some artists have more than one. Each couple of years songs get re-assembled or remixed, remastered and thrown out to the unsuspecting public. Ironic given that singles sales are gradually on the decline and record companies see singles as a way of marketing albums because its albums that make money.
But the record companies have new tricks, one of which has been around for a couple of years: the compilation album with new tracks.
So Under Pressure is a new Dannii track which is one of several new ones on her upcoming The Hits and Beyond album – undoubtedly covering the puppy fat days of Love and Kisses (good grief) to the sleekly engineered woman of today, some 15 years later. Such compilations are, however, interesting relics now that digital downloads are becoming popular. Why buy a Greatest Hits album when you can just buy the new songs?
Client A and B were joined by new member and bass player Client E, Emily Mann, late last year. The first music from this line up comes in the form of a free 8 track demo delightfully titled The Rotherham Sessions that can be downloaded from Client’s website.
New stuff should be out later this year, with their third album following in 2007.
I know what these mean, but do casual internet users? There’s no help to guide people. This is from e-availability.com, a web application for online booking.
Worse still, the stars indicate both optional and mandatory fields, so, what’s the point of them? And there’s no validation checking on e-mail addresses.
From the BBC: this is funny, unbelievable and truly scary:
Coldplay lead the field at this year’s prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards with three nominations.
Speed of Sound is up for international hit of the year and most performed work, while Fix You is nominated for best song musically and lyrically.
Pitchfork wrote this about X&Y: “X&Y is sequenced fast-song/slow-song through almost its entire running order, which means those of you uninterested in wading through doe-eyed love songs based on lazy rhyming couplets and trite resolutions have already lost half a disc’s worth of music… Like Coldplay’s two previous albums, only more so, X&Y is bland but never offensive, listenable but not memorable”.
Chunky techno breakbeat from The Brown Album aka Orbital 2, which I’m playing almost too loudly – it’s making my ears hurt and my hands sweat, but it’s so damn good.
Kathleen Edwards:
All the words you had
Planted seeds inside your head
Just waiting on a rainy day
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