Charlie Sexton – Beats So Lonely 12″ Long mix ( Charlie Sexton )
16 Bit lolitas remix – On a good day ( Above and Beyond Presents Oceanlab )

Update 2:

ok I hate to say this but possibly:
The Temptations – Night and Day (Cole Porter’s, originally sung by Fred Astaire  - which is good, but I like production on the The Temptations it just adds the mystery, atmosphere, and that Sax, its just magic! )
Frank Sinatra’s – Night and Day 1957 version of the same song above (which was featured in Friends –  ”The One With the Ballroom Dancing”)
Wham – If You Were There (The Isley Brothers)
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – Tha Crossroads ( The Isley Brothers  okay its not a cover, or even a sample [D.J. U-Neek's a genius!- "where are you?"], but it does use and revolve around some of the song Make me Say it Again parts 1 & 2)

 Update 3  (31/10/2011) :

Elton John – Tiny Dancer (Recorded Live Old Grey Whistle Version) – ( Elton John )
Thin Lizzy – The Warrior ( Live Version) – ( Thin Lizzy )

….and possibly punted – but back to more important issues…(okay im kidding about being punted!)

I have left this blog alone for too long, however after reading this blog http://www.aysha-innit.blogspot.com/ (seriously good stuff on there, at times I felt like a kid in candy shop! Does a really good job of making one wanna go and live in Ajman عجمان) yes I felt the need to update this with some stuff. Lets do movies – yaay!

Ok so I saw Seven Pounds http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/ the other day and to be honest, I kind of liked it from the get go, even though its a bit silly. I still enjoyed it very much. I just loved Rosario Dawson in this, I wasn’t so keen on her in Sin City (which is one my favourite movies [ c'mon 3 stories for the price of one { forget that,  just such a cool movie I could watch it with the volume on mute!! }]).

Her character (Emily Posa) was just beautiful (which says alot about true beauty, persona and character)….she’s really good in this! My favourite scene was the bit where….:

Rosario Dawson:Emily Posa: What if… my pager goes off… and it’s a heart… and… it works? And my body doesn’t reject it? And… what if i have time?
Will Smith:Ben Thomas: [Long pause almost silent for a while to think] What if?…………… What if we have children?……………. What if we got married?……..

and then they both say “I love you”, and they start crying and embrace…it was touching and moving. Good stuff. Mashallah bruv!

Also in September I watched Casino, Goodfellas, Back to the Future (awesome classic film!), The Burbs (one of my all time favourites!), Man in the Chair (which was good in the beginning, I liked the editing, but then certain scenes felt all too familiar and safe… already been done before and I should have I liked it alot more but didn’t. I wanted it to glide like West Side story!!)  Up in the Air – now this was good, because even though its predictable and whatever it sucks you in, and then spits you out and laughs at you – like you knew this would happen, wakes you up! Definitely recommend it!.

What else, well lets see Westfield is new in Stratford, but doesn’t feel like stratford at all. Its stunning, the whole complex is, a remarkable piece of engineering and construction. I wonder how it will be this time next year and the year after.

I’m tired now, and my head hurts good night y’all come back now.

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See you soon :O)

Update: Well that was painless!!! it took less than 5 minutes to do.. lol.

Peter: “I read a book about that once”
Brian: “Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn’t ‘nothing’?
Peter:”Oh yeah.”

A friend was asking for some advice regarding a laptop she’s a student and just needs something practical within the £300 – £450 price range. I had a quick look around and everything seems pretty standard for that amount of ca$h.


Bare in mind, I’m from the Amstrad CPC 464 8-bit generation, so seeing processors with 64-bit extensions, 1TB hard drives, and Gigs of Ram always puts a smile on my face. A lot of people new to PC’s (through no fault of their own!) just won’t be able to appreciate just how far we have come in terms of hardware/software. So really what I’m saying is times are good, so long as you don’t buy a celeron processor laptop (unless you really must!) anything you get will be decent above the £350 range….and remember warranty can be your best friend, what with RMA headaches.

Anyhow here are the one’s I showed her (I’m NOT affiliated with any of the companies below, just so you know :O), but I have used them including Samsung (but I can’t be bothered to list Samsung, even though they make some slick machines) :


Dell
http://tinyurl.com/2bs6vun

Lenovo
http://tinyurl.com/2wrbz54

Acer
http://tinyurl.com/33w5sq2

One of the first “Portable PC’s” Osboure Executive

Next time, I intend to have a look at the individual brands and possible do some tables for comparisons.

1. Here is an interesting read build-a-hackintosh
2. British women converting to islam

There will be more to come to this section – so stayed tuned… :O)

Its fascinating on one hand as you have to decided whether to upgrade the existing system or update the existing one. Benefits of updating is that there is very little user training involved, however a 5 year old php web based application seems incredibly outdated when you look at the exciting stuff that is currently out there. Upgrading has its benefits but could be time consuming….and its difficult for me to predict how long it will take to do such a thing. Whats more interesting is that everything has changed on the user experience you have ZOHO, Sugar, Vtiger 5, and lots more – however the big thing is when real businesses use it and the customisations they ask for – ( bare in mind most of these web apps have very common features) – thats when things start to get a little tricky. Take for example reporting, reporting can be such a huge thing and yet there most of these although do provide reporting features its not full-set – in that you cant report on every single module within the application. You can only report on what has been decided is worth reporting on. Secondly the biggest issue is custom fields say you want custom field on a section that doesn’t exist or you want to create sub-section ( I know Sugar provides this, and its great ) but what about if you have 500 hundred custom fields? Are you supposed to sit there and type every single one in? Why not just have a CSV file telling what a field name is, its type and length – simple, and then import that into the system?

I’ve had to learn PHP, MYSQL all over again and by MYSQL what I mean is SQL programming, and the biggest problem is not learning a language but learning how to edit an existing program written already. Its like trying to find the ingredients for a particular cuisine by taste, cutting the food up, seeing what works what doesn’t…..its a tough mountain to climb but not an impossible one.

• You hit a block but can’t move on until you figured out how to fix another block you’ve already hit.
• Certain short-cuts you made years ago come back to haunt you!
• Programming is hard, and its difficult learning somebody else’s system
• Comprise, but how much you want to please your end users and give them what they want, yet it goes without saying that some of the smallest tasks in the users mind can be the most difficult to achieve.
• Documentation is hard to do, and when the only person is you – who do you turn to for advice.

I agree with them on this one – as an individual developer I agree with Apple. Sometimes I feel that by placing limits on artist/developers you usually get better – more creative results. Throughout history man has done with little, then what he has done with a lot. I mean there are a lot of rich people now, and there tonnes of developer tools for the Windows platform, but there are only a few memorable apps for Windows. BeOS had some interesting apps, but then again it was way ahead of everything at the time…so the whole OS felt radical. Whereas the iphone has alot of apps that I want to show off to my mates who don’t own one….I mean its like using butter, its so well crafted, and engineered beautifully that one just wants to show how marvellous it is to use.

So I have to admit around last year or before I was a bit disappointed with the whole Flash not being on my iphone, but now im over it, and it feels like an old argument. As a flash developer – I can see where Apple are coming from and regardless whether they say its buggy for the iphone, or if there is some ulterior motive to keep Adobe away, its Apple’s choice and their decision and as a creative mind – I always like a challenge – thus I’ve been reading/learning more about CSS/HTML and just working on the idea of making more mobile friendly websites – I love touch screen.

What is interesting is how fans still argue about Hurt a song by Nine inch Nails (Trent Razor), which was covered by Johnny Cash in 2002, a lot of people still don’t know it was written by Trent in 1994 and Cash covered it – what they automatically assume (like me) is that since Cash is such a legend he must have wrote it and every other artist covered it. Its funny reading the angry comments on youtube…personally I initially liked the Cash version, after hearing Sevendust live acoustic cover – I’m blown away by it – its my favourite version.

I have to be honest I don’t look forward to Adobe CS suites, its not a joy for me to use. I remember everything about using photoshop/paintshop pro/ back in the day on a performa 5320 in school, photoshop was the dogs biscuit. I wonder what Apple have up their sleeve, they’ve nailed the video market with FCP, it’ll be interesting to see what they do next.

Out of all of this – the biggest loser must be intel. I mean they don’t make processors for mobiles and eventually mobile usage will surpass PC/Laptop. Now that we shall soon have Nvidia chips on mobiles dedicated to HD quality, low power consumption devices + ARM Chips – is there really any need for the Intel/AMD giants – in the long term? I wonder.