On Saturday I booted my hackint0sh to drop some new music onto my iPhone only for it to throw a strop and decide my library was corrupt and reload it. On reloading it though, it's lost 87 albums worth of artwork. Whilst the chances are high it's still on my machine it's all in hashed out folders so it'll take me a hell of a lot of time to pull it out, so has anyone got any recommendations for tools to make this job slightly easier?

The worst part was I was going to back it all up on Sunday after making a nice little file server a few weeks back.

Good lord, it's been a while since I last updated, since April in fact.

So what's happened since April, well I got some more of my sleeve done for my birthday so it's now started looking more like the dragon it's meant to be. Also went to a burlesque night in Newcastle which was pretty decent.

Aside from that I've been up to my eyes in work for so long I can't remember what it's like to have a life. On the plus side over the next 6 months I'm going to end up managing a larger team at work, and I'm going to be doing development work to integrate our current system with our new owners system. Who are based in Amsterdam. So that'll be a massive task but apparently they're pretty impressed with my development skills, so it's an ego-boost hah.

I'd say I'll try keep this updated more, but I'm so hideously addicted to Twitter every other social network has been neglected. I do still read LJ everyday mind, so I won't be giving up on LJ just yet.

http://www.gothsinhotweather.com/

Apologies if it's been posted aleady, I must have missed it

Jacqui Smith to step down

Thank christ for that. Out of all the MP's I wanted to see disappear off she was top of the list. Now all we need is Alastair 'Harbinger of Doom' Darling to step down as well, because honestly when you're plummeting into a recession you want a friendly face, and not the villain from Thunderbirds.

Dizze Rascal and Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Lets Get Ravey Remix)
Skream - Clap Your Hands (ripped from the annie mac mash up)


Dodgy youtube links mind, so if they're not working you should just buy the tracks, they're all amazing.

- Listening to Lab 4 and programming all day, I'm living my student days again
- My Aspire One, in all of it's hacky glory
- Ubuntu Netbook Remix, because OSX86 is a bit too flaky when it comes to wireless with the standard wifi card on the AA1
- *Finally* getting two massive issues out of the way with my project that have literally taken days to fix.
- The sun finally being back, which means chillaxing with pints in beer gardens

Things whot I don't like

- Really undocumented databases containing 7 years of data I can't scrap and start over on
- Working around other peoples little programming insanities

As you can guess, my life is pretty much spent in front of a monitor at the moment

The new Fast and the Furious, it's amazing. Honestly, it's absolutely amazing.

So U2's manager has stepped into the ring.

In the red corner, the music industry. In the blue corner, sanity.

Red corner: Internet can be used for illegally sending music to some one!

Blue corner: Internets is a bit more than that (piracy & memes).

Red corner: But it's also used for illegal purposes (purposes which are stopping me from paying for my yacht). So we want to decide when to cut you off.

Blue corner: ....

Red corner: GHHHHUHHHHHHH.

They've clearly missed a trick here, because really if I want some illegal music I don't need an internet connection. I can get me some tracks off a friend through the good ol' sneakernet if they live close, or through the postal system if they don't.

Next week, music industry makes taking CD's out of their cases illegal. Also if you hear music in the background of a phone call then you have to make sure you own the track otherwise put the phone down.

(I incidentally do engage in some piracy, but purely for the purposes of try-before-you-buy, I spend a fortune on music that I love, same for books, movies and tv series.)

I'm actually half tempted to set up a site where you put in the genres you fancy and someone from wherever who've got similar interests send you a dvd full to the brim. Can't imagine them being able to shut down the postal system really.

Good morning dedicated livejournalers. Given it's been a month I figure a token update always goes down well.

Work is killer. I'm behind schedule on my main project, and the timescale I had was unfeasible so instead of a nice finish on 31st April I'm pushing to try finish it for May. It *is* cool though. Qt is a nice and tidy little package for cross-platform dev work, and it does look pretty tasty.

F1 has started again for the year, hurrah! And BTCC, hurrah! Back into the motorsport season, which is always excellent.

I'm slowly digging my way out of debt. No one's broken my legs yet.

I was given an Acer Aspire One this weekend so I now have a new hacking-toy to play with until I either break it (possible) or get bored of it.

I'll try to remember to update this thing slightly more often, Twitter has pretty much consumed my online-blogging requirements now.

I understand you know. I understand that it's inevitable that it'll be compared to Pendulum - In Silico, and that people will talk about them sounding so alike. This is because those people have no sense. Truly the most merciful thing to do would be to cut their ears off, spare them any more torture of listening to music and just not getting it.

I'll hold my hands up, I hated In Silico, and to an extent have a strong dislike for Pendulum due to it, and after hearing early reports of the Prodigy apparently sounding just like them I was concerned. Extremely concerned. Thankfully my concerns were unneeded and it sounds fuck all like Pendulum. You know who it sounds like? Prodigy. You know why it doesn't sound like Pendulum? Well for a start decent vocals.

The entire album is the usual Prodigy romp through sounds, never really easing off until the last track which unfortunately takes a slow and slightly more chilled out stance, which sort of spoils the end of the album. After 10 prior tracks of drum and bass style drops, and shouty lyrics it comes as a bit of a surprise. For the moment it's an unwelcome one but it may very well grow on me.

Omen of course is the one thats gotten air time recently, and for good reason it's an excellent track, but there's some other tracks that are fantastic, Thunder being the first one that springs to mind. But speaking of Omen, the EP is definitely worth a look in, the remixes of Omen by Herve and Noisia are excellent plus a remix of the albums title track by Chase & Status rounds out Prodigy's courting of the big names in drum and bass.

All in all the album has been worth the wait, and in case you missed it, it's nothing like Pendulum so stop with the comparisons before ears have to be taken.