My wife and I finally got a chance to go out and see a movie. We saw “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs” in IMAX 3D. The movie was great and seeing it 3D was excellent!
This is probably one of my favorite movies ever. The story was amazing, the animation and all the small details in the movie were perfect. The movie is actually based off of a children’s book by Judi Barrett.
I recommend you see this movie now if you haven’t already.
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Google Wave is “a personal communication and collaboration tool”.
]]>Google Wave is designed as the next generation of Internet communication. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave works like previous messaging systems like email and Usenet, but instead of sending a message along with its entire thread of previous messages, or requiring all responses to be stored in each user’s inbox for context, message documents (referred to as waves) that contain complete threads of multimedia messages (blips) are perpetually stored on a central server. Waves are shared with collaborators who…
Aptana… What can I say? It has been a love hate relationship, from poor initial 64bit support. Its lack of efficient FTP support. Its wavering pro features that eventually trickled down to the community version, and then removing the pro version altogether.
I have been using Aptana for years, and have had a lot of frustration over its development. It seemed that every update caused an issue with something I needed or was working before the latest update. But when it came to PHP in my mind it was an excellent tool.
Aptana as you may or may not know is…
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What happened to the gallery?
Well to say it short, I have not had time to update the gallery. My new photos are all in my photo blog www.thewonderingphotographer.com But for the past week or two I have not had time to post new images there. I can assure you that as soon as I do the photo blog will be filled to the gills with new images!
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I came across this site today and after looking at all the press around the DNA Portrait I may be the only person in the world seeing this for the first time.
A Canadian company knows as DNA11 offers creative and unique pieces of art centered on your genes and unique features.
You can get DNA Portraits, Fingerprints Portraits, as well as Kiss Portraits in any imaginable colour combination you would like as well as a wide verity of framing and mounting options.
Check them out: DNA11
]]>We Were Promised Jetpacks formed in Edinburgh, in 2003. The band played their first gig at their school’s ‘battle of the bands’ competition, which they won. The four-piece eventually relocated to Glasgow:
“There was a time when we first moved to Glasgow (we grew up and went to school in Edinburgh, then three of us moved to Glasgow and one of us to Stirling) and started playing proper gigs in proper venues. Playing in Edinburgh before was weird as we were underage, so ended up playing some odd nights. Which was cool, but when we moved to Glasgow we were of…
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I have been using the same old pair of Sony monitor headphones for 7 years now, in that time I have broken both adjustment pieces. If you were to take a look you would see Super Glue and Tape, a sad attempt to keep them together. I have gone through 3 pairs of apple iPod headphones (not the best) wither the cables broke or they simple died.
I started to look at headphones and ideally wanted to avoid ear buds. Since I am a bike commuter I cannot ware monitor headphones and a helmet at the same time. So I began…
]]>Jupiter One is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2003. Inspired by a wide range of influences, they create upbeat indie pop songs, with a grounding in futuristic-sounding New Wave-style synth sounds. Their self-titled debut album was released by Cordless Recordings in 2007.
K Ishibashi and Zac Colwell are the founding members of the group. Other members are K’s wife Mocha, a Japanese-born keyboardist and violinist, drummer Dave Heilman, and bassist Pat “Panda” Dougherty.
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It’s that time of year again when the Rexall Edmonton Indy rolls into town. It’s easy to tell, streets are blocked off, signs go up advertising parking for $20 and you can hear the cars from miles away.
Should be some nice weather, luckily they missed last weekend’s 140 km/h winds that did a lot of damage to trees and buildings.
I hope everyone enjoys the noise, and the excitement!
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]]>The Bloody Beetroots are an Italian electronica and dance music duo. Formed in late 2006 by producer Bobby Rifo, an international indie producer, and DJ Tommy Tea. The album Cornelius was in the Top 100 International iTunes downloads. This album was a complete art project composed of music, videos, and fashion. A collaboration with french label Sixpack France was done to edit a limited tee shirt. Often compared with French band Justice, the duo wear spiderman masks while performing. The duo had a short tour of the United States in early 2008, alongside DJ Steve Aoki.[4] In 2008, the song…
The band consists of Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Doug Fink (drums), Tom Hobden (fiddle), and Urby Whale (bass), and after a few singles, released their debut album, Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down in August 2008. Laura Marling, Wendy Jane, childhood friend Hugo Barrey and Emmy The Great sang for short periods with the band and the brass accompaniment on the CD is provided by Jon Carvell (trombone) and Sam Kinrade (trumpet). They have been compared to Neutral Milk Hotel, Bonnie Prince Billy and Belle & Sebastian., and the band cite both punk rock and folk as influences.
]]>Pinback is an indie rock band from San Diego, California, currently signed to Touch and Go Records. The band was formed in 1998 by singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow. The band has two drummers that switch off and on, Chris Prescott, and Tom Zinser. Other members of Pinback past and present are: Terrin Durfey, Eric Hoversten, Ryan Bromley, Cameron Jones, Kenseth Thideau, Gabriel Voiles, MC, Dmitri Dziensuwski, Donny Van Zandt, and Thatcher Orbitachi. The band’s moniker is a reference to a character in the film Dark Star (played by Dan O’Bannon, who also co-wrote…
Aptana has what is called Intellisense, this is nothing new. Many modern IDE’s have Intellisense for standard HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other languages like PHP, and Ruby.
This will be a place where you can store your various frameworks. I store the frameworks in there own folders separate from the production scripts for Three reasons. One, I can keep versions of my library’s. And Two so they are independent of the production application. And Three I can update all the Frameworks with SVN.
I am…
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Speak your mind!
Everything will be taken into account, but…
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]]>The Rural Alberta Advantage is a Canadian indie rock band that formed in 2005. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consists of Paul Banwatt, Amy Cole and Nils Edenloff.
First formed in 2005, the band released a demo tape and an EP independently before completing their first full-length album, Hometowns, in early 2008. Hometowns was recorded and produced from April 2007 to March 2008 by Roger Leavens at BoomBox Sound in Toronto, Ontario. The band toured extensively across Canada, including shows at the Pop Montreal and Halifax Pop Explosion festivals, to support Hometowns.
The band was selected as eMusic’s featured artist of…
Chairlift formed in Boulder, Colorado in early 2006 to make live music for haunted houses. Frequenting the Broker Inn on the edge of town for empty late-night jazz shows, Caroline Polachek, Aaron Pfenning and Patrick Wimberly were mystified by the 1980’s faux-gothic architecture, oak-cabinet aquariums, vacant dancefloors, fake trees, crystal chandeliers and dark velveteen booths. The inn provided them with the ideal setting for a new breed of pop: a place where subtle clashes blossomed into uncanny pleasures.
]]>The Maple State formed in 2004 in Manchester, England after meeting at school/college, the band originally drew most of its inspiration from emo-rock bands such as The Get up Kids, The Anniversary and Hot Rod Circuit. Comprised of brothers Gregory and Christian Counsell, William Pearson and John Goodwin, the band recorded their earliest songs in a friend’s bedroom and began touring the UK, these songs eventually became their first EP entitled At least until we’ve settled in which was released by Punktastic Recordings in March 2005, the EP received rave reviews from Magazines and Fanzines across the UK and helped…
]]>Black Kids, consisting of Reggie Youngblood (vocals and guitar), Owen Holmes (bass guitar), Kevin Snow (drums), Dawn Watley (keyboards and vocals), and Reggie’s sister Ali Youngblood (keyboards and vocals), formed in early 2006. Although they initially performed only in Jacksonville, they received national attention after a breakout performance at the Athens Popfest in Athens, Georgia on August 11, 2007, which led to a sudden flurry of coverage in the music press, including NME, Vice, The Guardian, and The Village Voice. The same month, Black Kids’ demo EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, was released via free download on their MySpace page. Soon…