Monthly Archive for June, 2004

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50 coolest song parts EVER

Published on June 17, 2004 in music. 2 Comments

You can argue about some of the entries, but 50 coolest songs parts ever is a pretty great list of songs with the little extra that has made them stick around in your mind, or makes you start headbanging every time you hear them.

I mean stuff like: Prince‘s faster-than-light guitar solo in Let’s go crazy — Queen‘s classic gay-but-cool-as-hell anthem Bohemian Rhapsody (where’s ABBA, by the way?) — Jimi Hendrix‘ Voodoo Chile (look at that cover image, didn’t you get arrested for stuff like that in those days?) — Madness‘ slightly deranged One Step Beyond — the coolest Rolling Stones intro ever in Sympathy for the devil — Van Halen‘s drum solo on Teacher (those can’t all be bass pedals, right?) — and on #1: Phil Collins‘ monumental gated drum climax on In The Air tonight.

Which reminds me: I’m gonna see Phil Collins live this Sunday on TW/Classic.

(link: BeatMixed)

[Listening to: "That Night" - Jazzanova - Jazzanova Remixed - Disc 1]

Beware: activity on winadmin.sourceforge.net !

Published on June 15, 2004 in winadmin. Closed

I just created a new WinAdminscript to do XSL Transforms, and while I was at it, also updated some older scripts.

The results:Winadmin Utilities

  • waXslt (NEW): to perform an XSL Transform on an XML file
  • waNoCaps (UPDATED): the most popular – and the simplest – of all my utilities, to disable your CAPSLOCK key
  • waRmZip (UPDATED): 2nd most popular, to clean up folders by deleting, moving, rotating or compressing files.
  • waTemplate (UPDATED): WSF template script, includes parameter parsing, logging

I’m working on a script for conversion of files to Movable Type import format for import in BlogWare/TypePad. More on that later!

Finding Nemo – Voices and faces

Published on June 12, 2004 in movie. 4 Comments

I was watching Finding Nemo with my daughter – kids are a great excuse to see animation movies – and was slightly bothered that I did not remember all the original voices. My daughter sees it with Dutch (actually Flemish) dubbed voices, and you lose some of the jokes.

So when she went to bed, I checked out the writers’ comment and heard them drop actor names for the great voices, and for most of them I could not put a face on them. I started out looking for Albert Brooks, but as these things go, I checked most of them out. I’ve put the results in Finding Nemo – Voices and faces (a Pixagogo album).

Here are some highlights:

Marlin
Marlin		 Nemo
Nemo		 Dory
Dory		 Coral
Coral
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks		 Alexander Gould
Alexander Gould		 Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres		 Elizabeth Perkins
Elizabeth Perkins
Gill
Gill		 Bloat
Bloat		 Peach
Peach		 Bubbles
Bubbles
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe 		Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett 		Allison Janney
Allison Janney 		Stephen Root
Stephen Root
Bruce
Bruce		 Anchor
Anchor		 Chum
Chum		 Crush
Crush
Barry Humphries - also Dame Edna
Barry Humphries		 Eric Bana - also Hector from Troy
Eric Bana		 Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence 		Andrew Stanton - also the writer and director
Andrew Stanton

Cool speakers: Bose Personalized Amplification System

Published on June 10, 2004 in hardware. Closed Tags: , , .

Bose Personalized Amplificiation System
While researching speakers, I came across a new concept of amplification for musicians: the Bose Personalized Amplification System.

As I understand it, you place a Cylindrical Radiator speaker, combined with one or two optional Bass modules, close to the musician, and it takes care of ALL amplification, that is,

  • on-stage monitor for the musician
  • on-stage monitor for his/her fellow musicians
  • and PA for the entire venue.That last one is amazing, no need for separate amps + speakers for the audience. I would think that in order to cater for the audience, the sound would have to be so loud it would bother the musician, but apparently this is not the case. It’s not the first time Bose Research has done amazing stuff.

    Starting at $1500 however, it’s not (yet) for me.