Random Musings - Day #224

Tidying up my profile as much as I can and why do have separate bookmarks for Firefox and IE.
Anyhow a couple of pearls found are the On the buses on speed, Blakey goes to the states and Word Origins.

There must have been a reason why I have Metadot portal server on my list but debugging a perl program is always useful.
There's another alternative to keepvid and that's video downloader

I have played neopets before and Reon Kadena is pretty.

If you want to go somewhere check out Oz Experience and Magicbus NZ.

A good guide to the american charts can be found at allmusic. The number 1's on the billboard and dance charts can be found at wikipedia.

body wave tutorial
In case I forget again, the gym I went to in Newcastle was called Body zone

Random Musings - Day #18

The best way to get Peterborough from the south is the M11 not the M1. Old town Towcester is in Northamptonshire.

The legendary artist/uk tv presenter Tony Hart, 83 died today. Famous for his gallery and Morph.

I'm so easily amused, there is a television advert for comparethemarket.com with a well-dressed meerkat who is pleading don't get confused with comparethemeerkat.com!

Carnival time almost upon us. It's unfortunate they occur at the same time but there is the carnival in Rio and Trinidad.
There is always something happening before the carnival but in Rio, the actual carnival gets into high gear on the Saturday (Feb 21) and winds down on 'fat' Tuesday (Feb 24).
Another guide comes from the girl from ipanema. Whilst in Trinidad, the carnival itself is on the Monday and Tuesday. There are a number of fetes including Insomnia on the Saturday before. Although 2009 will unfortunately be the last one. A nice blog about mas is supplied by saucy. Other good sites include Trinisoca and Toronto-Lime. Yes, Toronto! Toronto does have a decent West Indian community. Anyway that site has events (in Toronto), songs and charts. Talking of events, here's a list of fetes in Trinidad.

It looks like I'm on Setanta Sports has turned into Special 1 TV.

Lady GaGa is once again #1 in the UK for a second week. Kid Cudi is at #2 with "Day'n'Nite". James Morrison/Nelly Furtado at #3 with "Broken Strings".

Random Musings - Day #11

London. Here's a few interesting things there. A place that I've been to for a laugh is School Disco, which usually on a Sautrday and plays 80s and 90s music where surprise surprise you have to dress as a schoolkid. A place that I would like to visit is Swaparama Razzamatazz. A rather novel concept of swapping an item of clothing why a klaxon sounds. But before you go there with your crappiest clothes, I believe you initally take some clothes from the club wardrobe. Another place, I'd like to visit is the very tacky Venue in New Cross. I have heard mixed reviews about the place. They usually have some form of tribute act playing there, but for a one-off I am sure it would be a laugh. Another venue, I'd love to go is the Jazz Cafe in London (not to be confused with the one in Reading). They usually have good acts there, usually acts from days from way back when.
Turning away from clubs, there are a number of bowling alleys in London but none may be as classy as allstarlanes. If you like ice skating, now is the right time for it, this gives a good guide but there is only one indoor ice rink, Queen's ice, which oddly enough doubles as a bowling alley too.

Well you know what? I haven't even done any notes about computers, so far. Let's put that right. Now DNS resolves your hostnames into IP addresses. Now sometimes, it may be useful to IP addresses of some DNS services, just in case you lose contact with your chosen DNS. I used to use DNS stuff as a tool for finding information. But that's pretty restrictive so have a look at network tools (67.222.132.196),
perhaps 4dnstools (8.7.26.2), mydnstools (212.241.216.156) and ipchecking. The similarly named ipchicken tells you your own IP address!

Back to music. America's Lady Gaga is the new number 1 in the UK charts with 'Just dance'. James Morrison & Nelly Furtado are #2 with Broken Strings and last week #1 Alexandra Burke's Hallelujah. Lady Gaga happens to also be the current #1 in the states.
You can get a fairly comprehensive but not always accurate history of chart songs at everyhit. I've not seen a USA equivalent as yet. Though you can find a list of US #1's and US Dance #1'son wikipedia.

Also been seeing some weird adverts for Churchill Insurance guest starring Rolf Harris and Roy Walker.