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My Android Cupcake

Quartz Composer - VJing Potential

The other day i stumbled across Quartz Composer. For those of you who don't know, this is a modular programming interface that lets you manipulate images/videos etc. It makes good use of Apples core image and video libraries, which would otherwise remain rather intimidating technologies for the casual programmer to harness.

After a few hours of playing around, adding filters to my iSight, and creating flashy screen-savers i decided to create a simple composition to wish my father happy birthday. All went smoothly and it was received well by the said recipient.

However, this got me thinking. Recently, DJM was complaining about how expensive VJing software is, and how taxing the programs are on the computers memory and storage space. If-someone was to code a new VJing software for Mac, which made use of all these free, built in and very powerful OSX technologies. The resultant program would be relatively small and could be priced quite modestly (or just for free).

When i get good enough at programming, i might be giving this a try.

Quartz composer is free with Xcode. 

Design Flaws

I don't really know where this is going, but I might as well try to write something. After seeing Elrevert write something, I knew I must.

My topic is the human body. There are many people (who are mostly religious) who would have you believe that the human body is the perfect one, no faults whatsoever. How could anybody believe this?

It is quite extraordinary for something like the human body to survive as long as it has. There are so many weak points it is hard to account for them all. A simple knock to the head in a sensitve spot can kill you. A pinch of a pressure point can have you unconscious for hours. Falling on a slightly jagged rock the wrong way has the potential to a) create a hole in you, and b) really hurt. And that's just on the outside.

Inside there's no end of absolute rubbish going on, some of it also potentially fatal. A small clot in the bloodstream for example. There is no point in the appendix. Humans have not eaten grass for thousands of years (probably), yet everyone has one of these timebombs in them at birth, waiting to burst. Evolution has a lot to answer for. Why didn't we get rid of this and keep something good, like gills perhaps.

Think of all the other useless stuff. Easily blocked airways. Sweat. This one is borderline ridiculous. The scientific explanation for sweat is that it is meant to cool you down. Does it? Has anybody ever thought 'Thank goodness I'm sweating.' No, you take a drink because you're losing precious bodily fluid, and you'll feel terrible if you don't rehydrate. And excretion is riddled with faults. Couldn't excretion be converted in a way so that all extraneous waste was boiled, removed of colour and released odourlessly as a gas through the pores instead of sweat perhaps? Honestly...

I can only conclude that I have no real way of finishing this well, but I felt some of these things needed saying and that if only our body was better designed, think where we could be now. Presumably not living in danger of the (very real) threat of dying of an infected papercut.

Feeding your mac coffee, even while the lid is closed

For full information on this, make sure you go to http://alexburgess.wordpress.com

But, have you ever found yourself wanting to close the lid of your macbook/macbook pro, while listening to music, torrenting, etc?

Well, the answer is called insomniaX. Well, nearly....

InsomniaX carried horrible, leopard-unfriendly icons in the menu bar. Not any longer, because now there is

INSOMNIAX - Kitty cat edition.

I loved the app, but hated the icons, so I had a little fiddle and changed them to cats.

Have fun!

... Oh - and download from http://www.wobblemation.co.uk/InsomniaX%20-%20with%20Kitty%20icons.zip

Humble readers of this blog, I have a question...

Have you ever felt a sudden urge to rip off your ears and beat yourself to death with them?

While this may seem like a strange idea at first, I believe it to be one of the few constructs of the human psyche to provide us with an instant (well, a slow and painful) relief from a noise so unthinkable, so paralytically horrifying that it hurts my tender, fragile eardrums just thinking about it. I am talking of course, about R&B sensation, Akon.

While some members of the Kielder may actually know what repeatedly smashing yourself with your ears feels like, I can assume that most of you don't. Well, in fact, you do. All you have to do is tune your DAB Digital Radio to BBC Radio 1XTRA, and wait for around the same length of time you do when listening to Kerrang, for "Rockstar" by Nickelback to unwelcomely knock on your door in the dead of night, sodden from head to toe, dying from the relatively unknown disease overplayedsclerosis (symptoms include a sudden and devastating loss of popularity), and you will inevitably hear the sound of a true R&B visionary cloud your senses with brilliance...

"I wanna make love right now now now, I wanna make love right now now now, I wanna make love right now now now, I wanna make love right now now now, I wanna make love right now now now, I wanna make love right now now now..."

That's right ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of genius. One man, one man stands alone (when I say alone, I actually mean surrounded by thousands of others) in his writing and composing talent bracket. One man has defied the odds to produce another multi-platinum selling album containing nothing but pure, unadulterated CRAP, which for some reason makes 14 year old girls across the globe want to "bop" up and down clubs all night screaming this shit into the ears of innocent, music loving people like you and me. It isn't fair, and I've had enough of it. 

I have one question. Why? Why is it that these retarded piss-heads enjoy listening to this rubbish? It can't be because of the melodic, thumping baseline and mind-numbingly repetitive synth. And it can't be because of the original, varied lyrics (note the sarcasm) discussed earlier. With these two reasons ruled out, I have come to the conclusion that people who enjoy this kind of music must be too wankered to either give a fuck, or understand that any sound is entering their ears at all. Or remember their own name, for that matter.

You think people downing shots all night every night next to the nearest speaker blaring out 1XTRA, "bopping" to Akon is unlikely? Well, so do I, but if you can think of any other reason why anyone would torture themselves by listening this complete and utter donkey dick, I'd like to hear it.

Over and out.

Hello

This is John, but you can call me Russ.

I have been asked to contribute to this blog, and am perfectly happy to when the feeling takes me. I may not be consistant, reliable, punctual or good, but I will be there.

Thank you,
John Russ

Speed up spotlight

Finding spotlight a little unresponsive? Just installed vista via bootcamp (or any other NTFS OS)? 

Go to spotlight preferences > privacy. Then add 'untitled' (or whatever your bootcamp drive is).

This will lose you the ability to search your windows partition, but who wants to anyway?

Movies

Like big-budget action blockbusters? Look no further than 2009.

- Watchmen
- Terminator: Salvation
- Transformers 2
- Star Trek

Gay quote of the day award goes to....

PGREEN !

For wanting to do up a double decker bus and call it the "Dudemobile"... Xzibit style.

Landyachtz B-Ride - A Newbies Review

I have recently aquired a longboard. For those of you who dont know, longboards are like a skateboard, but longer. For those of you who are ignorent enough to not know what a skateboard is, think: plank with wheels.

Longboards are used for general skating/crusing/commuting/downhill. As a result, their size and style vary greatly.

The board i have, the Landyachtz B-Ride, is actualy massive, even for a longboard (its 1.5 meters long).

Upon skating it i learnt several things.

The B-Ride loves smooth open tarmack

The B-Ride loves going fast and smooth

The B-Ride doesnt like grass

The B-Ride really doesnt like mud

The B-Ride throws a paddy on ice
The B-Ride also doesnt care for curbs

My head doesn't care for hedges or walls.

Having said that, the B-Ride is actualy awsome, skating on it is a breeze. You would expect such a big board to handle like a tank. However, the revenge trucks turn in a rather different way to normal trucks and as a result it handles like a much smaller board.

Having just used it to commute to college today, my legs hurt a little. But my jorney time was cut by about half.

In conclusion i absolutely love this board, all i need to do know is pony up some more money to finish paying its previos owner.

Reading and Leeds - Week 2

So these are my updated predictions based on a further 6-and-a-half days of headliner speculation. Despite the announcement of a new album and a "summer tour", Green Day stay below the bubble line due to speculation from eFestivals that they were initially going to sign for the festival but the deal fell through at the last minute.

Obviously, the stunning revival of Blink 182 has propelled them from 10th to 3rd, and many (some reluctantly) are now dusting off their baggy jeans and lip rings in preparation. Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon both remain strong favorites.

Don't forget to check the official festival website for the latest rumors and updates.

EDIT: Apologies, I did an update on another website 2 days ago, which is why the position changes don't make sense when looking at last weeks. Oh well, what the fuck are you going to do, kill me?! No, so shut up! Yeah!

Seen Eurotrip?

If you've seen thee film Eurotrip you know the song "Scotty doesn't know". (Or rather "Scottish doesn't know ... if your Aylestone 08 leavers)

Well i've decided there should be a song called
"Tommy does know"

Had to be said.

Festivals, festivals, festivals. Any self-respecting music fan loves them. Yes, I know that the summer rockfests are a fare distance away yet, but the rumors have started to fly around as is almost always the case around this time of year, especially for the Reading and Leeds Festival 2009. 

As myself, James and Matt are planning to attend this year, I have been spending quite a bit of time trawling through the many forums, and have come up with a fairly accurate prediction concerning the Headliners. This list will be updated each week, based on solid new information that manages to reach me through the acres of bullshit swirling around out there.

Obviously this is just speculation (I'd like to think relatively well-informed speculation), and the rankings will change each week as explained earlier. Bands like Slipknot and Lostprophets are almost dead certs to be playing, but they are lower down on this list as they are unlikely to headline. Oasis and Blink 182, however, are both very unlikely to appear in any form, especially since one of them is split. Some rumors suggest otherwise, however, so I have included them.

Movie Hybrids

X Men 3 : Batman Begins
Happy Feet : The Return Of the King
March Of The Penguins : The Empire Strikes Back

Somone please make these films.

Snow!

Yay, it snowed, just had a snowball fight and i cant feel my fingers. Hurts to type.

In Europe a lil snow doesn't do much. But here in Hereford a few inches will bring the entire transport system to a dismal halt. Its a bit silly. Then again, i cant complain about the lack of college.

Mmmmmm snow.

ME ! ...and..umm... ME again ! YAY!

Hey yet another new addition to the blog.
Im Matt, 17,Hereford UK, 6th form college.

Well not much for me to say here except Im going to try and keep my posts about music, games (both PC & Consoles...... PC > Consoles :) and anything else which takes my fancy.

Also yes I play guitar and make short films.

One more thing...
INNERPARTYSYSTEM Live is the most intense and amazing experience of anyone's life so far. Right next to your fist orgasm which like INNERPARTYSYSTEM is over too soon...

More about the gig soon + pictures and a video.