05.14.08
Posted in Home at 8:44 am by JohnB
Now I love ‘Hold Your Colour’, from my first listen it cemented it’s place in my favourite albums list. So I was very excited when the new collection by pendulum appeared on the iTunes pre-order list.
On my first listen I have to say I’m not totally blown away. The bands move towards more lyrically driven and rock biased tracks is certainly well executed and delivers well as a body of work but with Slam and Tarantula still very fresh in my mind it’s a big departure.
I do like it though and it’s going to get some serious ear-time over the next few days!
- J.
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05.12.08
Posted in Home at 3:37 pm by JohnB
It’s not often I vent.. well not in public anyway. But I wanted to use this little bit of time to have a moan.
I was using Microsoft’s RDC2 for Mac beta 2 and, like everyone else, was mildly dis-pleased when the beta timed-out and I was left with a single session application but you know what? Even that was better than the hideous piece of nonsense which is RDC2 for Mac, beta 3. Why in the hell does something which worked (seemingly) very well now behave like someone’s screwed up idea of an Aprils Fools joke!
“Support for language settings” they say.. OK, so previously I had to remember that the @ and ” were transposed.. big deal, now I can’t use ALT for anything and when I’m in Outlook and try to SHIFT-Arrow to do multiple selections it deletes my mail!
Seriously.. I’m going to go back to beta 2 (if I can find it) and run crippled until I can find a better alternative. I’ve tried CoRD and that was great, right up to the point where I wanted to cut/paste between sessions, print, or use Project. I’m REALLY angry about this.. so much so that I think I may even virtualise my Laptop and run it under Parallels instead.
- J.
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05.09.08
Posted in Home at 10:03 am by JohnB
I’ve just installed a nifty little widget call Wordbook which I hope will revive my, seriously waning, presence on Facebook and also generate some additional views here at Silesti.net.
The premise is simple, you install the widget, add the corresponding App to your Facebook page and configure it up. Then links to your Wordpress posts appear over there on Facebook, cool!
Next up is linking Twitter in too, then I’ll be all sorted out! 
- J.
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