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Thursday, April 26
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 26 Apr 2007 02:12 BST
The monkey has landed, again. In the surreal work that is Los Angeles who joys does this town have in wait for me, its always eventful and fun.
Thursday, April 12
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 12 Apr 2007 23:37 BST
Today I had two days off in Washington DC before heading to NAB in las Vegas, This is my fav photo I took while out today, it from the Lincoln Memorial looking out over the Reflectling Pool down to the Washington Monument.
My Flickr Pool http://flickr.com/photos/akira_kev/sets/72157600070646782/ Tuesday, April 10
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 10 Apr 2007 15:55 BST
Text message boss killed in crash Mark Langford, 43, from Cheshire, fled to the continent after Manchester-based The Accident Group (TAG) collapsed with debts of £100m in May 2003. Mr Langford's car was involved in an accident in Marbella, Spain, on Monday, the Foreign Office said. He was being sought by HM Revenue and Customs for £4.1m in unpaid tax. It is thought the businessman was at the wheel when his car went off the motorway near the resort. He died in hospital later. Monday, April 9
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 09 Apr 2007 16:27 BST
as sent to me by a friend
Sunday, April 8
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 08 Apr 2007 22:40 BST
Well i thought it might only be a matter of time before my Xbox 360 broke again, at Christmas the unit failed with a error were Icould not load any disc into the CD drive the drive made some crunching and loud buzzing sounds on start up. That unit was replaced under warranty by Mircosoft. Today while in the middle of playing GRAW 2. The DVD drive made an awful sound for a second or two. I thought the worst but the game kept on playing and I completed my mission. I turned the console off and then went to do some work I came back tonight to play again and what do I find. the DVD drive will not accept any games or dvd movies it just comes up that every disk is unplayable in the tray icon. So it looks like I'll be returning a second console to Microsft with the same problem. below is a picture of the error from my cameraphone
Saturday, April 7
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 07 Apr 2007 16:05 BST
if you were looking for a bus in east london this morning. Then the reason is they were all probably here. There was another 7 buses waiting in the queue just around the corner. All thanks to District Line engineering works.
Monday, April 2
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 20:01 BST
We've all heard about employees being sacked for blogging. will staff soon be sacked for failing to blog? Last week, Sony BMG UK issued a new corporate marketing strategy. According to an official release from the group, Ged Doherty, chairman and chief executive of SonyBMG in UK and Ireland, said the company "has made it obligatory for all senior staff at both Columbia Records and RCA Records to start blogging actively". So what happens to staff who refuse to toe the corporate line, or perhaps fail to produce the required quantity of blog blather? more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/02/compulsory_blogging/
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 19:20 BST
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 16:44 BST
Kermit the Frog -Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.....in Johnny Cash Stylee sent to me by Neil King Saturday, March 31
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 31 Mar 2007 13:07 BST
Meme stolen from Planet Mark
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here's how it works: 1. Open your library (Zune, iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that's playing 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button 6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool!
Waking Up : UB.
Jesus - David Byrne What a great opening for a movie, I can see it now it’s a montage. “Breathing like humans do” First Day At School :
die wunderwelt der technik - welle:erdbell The translation of the title of this track is “the miracle world of the technology” I think that it does sum up my schooling, it introduced me to the world of electronics and technology and I haven’t looked back. Falling In Love: Gamma Ray Blue - Cleaner from Venus “I’m so in love with Gamma Ray Blue” I forgot I had this in my mp3 collection till I did this meme, the cleaner from venus were a great avant garde act. Must make a point of getting the Vinyl out and play it later. Fight Song: DSMO (VNV
Remix) - Front 242 Two of my favourite bands working together, I’ve had some of my best nights out and festivals with Ronan and Mark and there is nothing like taking the Headhunters music and putting a spin on it. The photo is from Brussels at the Front 242 25th
Anniversary show. © All rights reserved (K2 Visuals 2006) Prom: Crazy –
Aerosmith Well what would a movie of my life be without a Aerosmith track, yes I used to be “Rock Boy” Aerosmith, Thunder, Quire boys etc oh how I loved the guitar sound. Donnington 1994 watching Extreme getting bottled off stage, then Aerosmith came on and blew me away. Life: This Is
My Hollywood - 3 Colours Red 3CR a great Newcastle band who made it, the album Pure that this track was on was stolen when I got mugged in Walker. “This is success” was the word that rang out in my head when I got my first Job in television. “Who wants to be in Hollywood” was what rang out a few months later when the reality set in. Mental Breakdown: NRG: That's What You Want? - Eskimos &
Egypt Graham Moore (from Crave, Electrocide, Wisconsin Terror Project and In Virtue of Being) was the guy who introduced me to E&E with a great album that had Side A, Side B, Side C and Side DJ. NRG riff is ”Guns and Roses O’ Sweet Child of Mine” played backwards and then a massive bass line popped over the top of it. Yes I think I was having a mental breakdown when I was listening to this, my father had just died and life was at a very low point. Somewhere I still go the first recording of “Away – Crave” which Graham record in my bedroom that song also means so much to me. “Electrocide, inside your mind, never let the lights go down on me” Driving: The Same Hole As
Yesterday - Autoclav1.1 Taken from Autoclav1.1’s first album by Tony Young, I’ve just started driving and this would be one messed up car journey if this was my movie, a bit scary and mood swinging. Great tune though.. Flashback: Citylights Remix (demo)-
Revolution By Night RBN was a band I used to play in and this was the last track they worked on before I left the band due to having too much going on at work, I was just starting a new job and things were moving forward. Getting Back
Together: Interstellar
Overdrive - Pink Floyd Another song Graham introduced me too, it was the first thing he taught me to play on the guitar, bar chords all the way. Wedding: A Day in the Life –
Beatles The best story about a song being made ever “The beginning
was based on 2 stories John Lennon read in the Daily Mail newspaper:
Guinness heir Tara Browne dying when he smashed his lotus into a parked van,
and an article in the UK Daily Express in early 1967 which told of how the
Blackburn Roads Surveyor had counted 4000 holes in the roads of Blackburn and
commented that the volume of material needed to fill them in was enough to fill
the Albert Hall. Lennon took some liberties with the Tara Browne story - he
changed it so he "Blew his mind out in the car." This boy is not the marrying type. Birth of Child: Forever – Bruderschaft This song could have gone down one place but as you not allowed to cheat. Rexx Arkana’s father died of Cancer in 1999 and during the last few days that his father spirit was around on this planet Rexx wrote “Forever”. It then took some years to get the track release but it brings together some of the greatest dark wave musicians with the most powerful lyrics ever in a song. It brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it. Rexx’s dediiation on his website http://www.razorburn.net says it all. “I humbly dedicate this song, "Forever," to my father: Charles Richard Millhouse, 1942-1999. I am sentry to you now, until we meet again.......... “Rexx Arkana Final Battle: Raverbashing - Atari
Teenage Riot From heart felt tune to one of complete noise, ATR were one of the bands I saw at the Purcell Rooms on the South Bank Centre, they blew me away. The power the energy. Perfect for a battle. So what I’m I Rocker, Indie kid, Metaller, Goth, Raver? Death Scene: Video Killed the Radio Star
- The Buggles I don’t know about this one but I suppose it works, it was the first song played on MTV when it launched and being a techie I live in video…..Living on Video by Trans X remember that one. Lets go down how I’ve lived in technology Funeral Song: Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy
Division Someone has been playing with my record collection again as this one is too good, the best version of this is a “A plus D” mashup “Love Will Tear You Apart (She Wants Revenge vs. Joy Division vs. Bauhaus)” its brilliant and if anyone wants a copy drop me a comment. I’ve never been a Goth honest, its not just about wearing black. But you try and tell the EMO kids that these days. Remembrance Song: Tainted Love - Soft Cell Marc Almond is a God, this song has been killed by so many bands in the past. The pussycat dolls should be ashamed of version that they did. Some of the best versions are by Depeche Mode(it hurts to say that) and Deathline International. End Credits: A Design For Life - Manic
Street Preachers I love the world of chaos and randomisation as the most perfect song and the band that mean the most to me in all my life land on the final credits. The Manics they are a band that have gone through a lot and come out the other end fighting. It doesn’t matter what people say about them, they do there own thing in the best way possible. That’s how I want to live my life. You don’t have to win ever battle as long as you know how to fight a war.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 31 Mar 2007 10:01 BST
Mark Thomas describes how you can become a serious criminal (whether you want to or not).
On Radio 4 Listen Again: My other posts on SOCPA Thursday, March 29
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 29 Mar 2007 16:39 BST
Human Writes Homepage
British humbug by Mark ThomasDid you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law It is an awkward question to ask but did anyone else hear the rest of the world sniggering? I thought I heard it, that’s all. The sequence of events went like this: the unfortunate British soldiers were kidnapped by Iran, Britain announced that Iran had broken international law... and that was when I thought I heard a global giggle, though it could have been a snort of derision.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 29 Mar 2007 12:38 BST
The US Marines are banning the wearing of large tattoos, saying they do not represent "traditional values". From Sunday, tattoos on the head or neck, or large
tattoos on arms or legs will not be allowed. Marines already with the
tattoos are exempt. Unit commanders will photograph and document all existing tattoos to make sure Marines do not touch them up. Dozens of Marines are reportedly queuing up at tattoo parlours to beat the deadline.
Marines have long been banned from having racist or sexist tattoos. But from 1 April, "sleeve" tattoos that cover most of an arm or leg will be banned, as will smaller half or quarter sleeve tattoos if they are visible on arms or legs when a Marine is wearing shorts and T-shirt. Tuesday, March 27
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Mar 2007 23:32 BST
Monday, March 26
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 26 Mar 2007 22:02 BST
This is one of my fav photos i've ever taken, it just got great atomsphere
Sunday, March 25
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 25 Mar 2007 21:41 BST
The 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire
has been rebuilt less than a year after it was destroyed by fire,
reports trade paper Screen Daily.
The structure was demolished last year after the fire caused the roof to cave in, damaging a set from Casino Royale. Its replacement is the same size as before, but with more usable space. http://www.007stage.com/
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 25 Mar 2007 20:03 BST
A fire has swept through a Moscow nightclub, killing 10 people and
injuring several others, police in the Russian capital have said.
Witnesses said the blaze broke out when a performer staging a nightly "fire show" inadvertently set his clothes alight, official said. City prosecutors have begun an inquiry into safety at the 911 club. It is the latest in a series of disasters that has highlighted Russia's poor enforcement of safety regulations.Officials said first accounts suggested that the blaze broke out when a performer accidentally set his clothing on fire. Flames spread to a large container of spirits and then the nightclub's stage caught fire.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 25 Mar 2007 19:40 BST
its sunday must be Stockholm
Wednesday, March 21
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 21 Mar 2007 15:24 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/net_neutrality_a_monkey_hangers_guide/
Yesterday, Westminster eForum staged the first debate in the UK on "Net Neutrality" - chaired by former DTI minister Alun Michaels and Shadow DTI Charles Hendry. El Reg gave a brief presentation. Here it is, with selected highlights, and a collection of external links for further reading. more monkey hanging Wednesday, March 14
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 14 Mar 2007 14:46 GMT
And there was me thinking about changing to Vodafone....I think I'm going to be thinking twice about that after reading this.
----- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/14/vodafone_wont_connect/ Vodafone is still refusing to officially recognise the Connect union, which is so keen to represent its members it has taken Vodafone to the government's Central Arbitration Committee to force recognition. Over half the 200 people working at Vodafone's "Technology: Regional Operations North" office are already members of Connect, which means recognition can be forced on Vodafone to allow collective bargaining on pay, hours, and holiday. Connect has been fighting for recognition since November last year, and recently went to ACAS with Vodafone in an attempt to negotiate a deal, without success. Vodafone does not recognise unions in the UK, though its operations in Germany and Ireland do have representation. Vodafone said in a statement it has elected to "follow the statutory recognition route" - which translates as refusing to recognise any union until the law tells it it has to. "Vodafone continues to value open and direct communication with its employees" - The key word here being "direct", as in not via collective bargaining. Union membership in high-technology industries has, traditionally, not been very high - when employees can change jobs every month there seems little cause for collective bargining. But as the industry grows up and consolidation constrains the job market, union membership starts to look more attractive. Connect is currently recognised by BT, O2 and Kingston Communications, though it has members at most of the comms companies, so we can expect similar disputes over the next few years. ® Tuesday, March 13
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 13 Mar 2007 17:54 GMT
Cable, Phone Companies Watch Warily
A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project ... more » Monday, March 12
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 12 Mar 2007 17:51 GMT
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 12 Mar 2007 17:09 GMT
Says it all.....
Sunday, March 11
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 11 Mar 2007 21:33 GMT
More bright Ideas it says, well I think a bright idea would be to turn off the lights at 3:16am on a Sunday morning and save us all from more light polution.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 11 Mar 2007 19:25 GMT
Most of the time I've always walked around Zone 1 as its the quickest way to get around central london, you don't have to queue up, get delayed and sqash onto a packed train. well someone has come up with a map showing how long it takes to walk between tube stops, you can see the map here
Also there is the "Sometimes it quicker to walk map" Thursday, March 8
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 08 Mar 2007 17:59 GMT
Want some music for your mp3 player then check out Synnack, Clint of Monochrome and Cut.Rate.Box fame http://www.synnack.com/ 19 minutes of IDM to relax on the train to on a morning. By the way that isn't Clint on the video that's Neil his pet Monkey, he's dances and everything???
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 08 Mar 2007 00:13 GMT
my oven can't count....oh dear as the KLF once said what time is now .....00:00......how CAN I TRUST IT OR DO WE HAVE TO DO YEAR 8 MATHS with it....sorry for the caps...
Wednesday, March 7
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 07 Mar 2007 10:48 GMT
its amazing what you find on the interweb
Monday, March 5
Sunday, March 4
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 04 Mar 2007 16:11 GMT
I took the camera to one of my fav places Tate Modern, to try it out and see what kind of shots I could get out of th camera, of course I didn't read the manual before going out so I had fun in low light and getting something I liked. Well this is one f the shots I liked
This is a shot a few hours before the lunar eclipse... Saturday, March 3
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 03 Mar 2007 12:58 GMT
What can we do on a slow news day, how about some stereotyping, I want to be so EMO, this is posted by Boo so I should give her credit for covering my laptop in coffee when i first saw it
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 03 Mar 2007 12:37 GMT
Many years ago, well ok..in 1998 I made a video for the band Automatic....they were a load of old punks from Newcastle making great tunes and were a great bunch of lads. Well I finally got around to encoding it and its down below. A small bit of history. Enjoy
Automatic - Red Eyes On Friday, March 2
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 02 Mar 2007 16:14 GMT
New Device Warning.
I needed a compact camera to talk to gigs and have on me at all times, it was only luck that I had my big digital Canon SLR with me when the Warren Street Bomb went off, so I was looking at compact camera and looked at the Canon IXUS series and the Fujifilm E900 but in the end I thought I'd better do it properly. Every news photographer I respect at some point the classic picture was taken with a Leica. From the flaming napalm on South Vietnameseof Phan Thi Kim Phuc by the South Vietmanese to the photo take by Kevin Carter in Sudan they were all taken with a Leica, now its my time to join the Bang Bang Club. http://www.leica-camera.us/photography/compact_cameras/d-lux_3/
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 02 Mar 2007 09:38 GMT
This was in the Metro this morning, it feels like everyone had the same joke, if only i could of copyrighted it. What I posted it http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/3/1/2773313.html
This was in the indie, not so much a joke but you know what they are implying. Thursday, March 1
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 01 Mar 2007 17:11 GMT
Every action has a equal and opposite reaction
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 01 Mar 2007 14:10 GMT
I think the other Mr King would approve of this story that was found by Damien one of our Dev Guys. He found it on Tom's Hardware Guide. Its a classic case of the geek going too far.
"Using your laptop while driving can be hazardous to your health as one Californian man found out. The 28-year-old man died after his Toyota Corolla slammed head on into a Hummer on Highway 99 north of Sacramento. California Highway Patrol Commander Scott Silsbee told UPI that the man was probably lost control because he was typing on a laptop. Despite the crash, the laptop was still powered on and was plugged into the cigarette lighter. The occupants of the Hummer were slightly hurt and were treated and released. Saturday, February 24
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 24 Feb 2007 15:41 GMT
Avid1 Media Composer Promo
Oh how we loved those Rmags and MO disks.... Well that was then and this is now... Thursday, February 22
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 22 Feb 2007 00:15 GMT
I took MSN's Geek Test and apparently I'm a:
Well balanced individual: So what if you answered hell yes to some of the questions!? You are in touch with your inner geek and you aren’t ashamed to admit it - but there are limits… Step away from th gadgets Kevin! Wednesday, February 21
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 21 Feb 2007 22:08 GMT
Something caught me tonight while looking at something else on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk, it was the crazy pricing that is being quote for Windows Vista Upgrades on both sites. I've included a screen shot to show you what I mean, the top site is amazon.com and the bottom amazon.co.uk.
Conversions at todays exchange rate of £1.00 = $1.95. If you did a straight conversion the UK prices for both would be: 78.92 UKP for Home Premium, Differnce of £56.02 which is 42% increase in price 128.11 UKP for Ultimate, Difference of £86.88 which is 40% increase in price. How can Amazon/Microsoft don't know who is to blame on this but i think I can guess as I see that the marketplace price, justify the near 1:1 conversion rate. Do you think that microsoft forget that you don't just replace a $ sign with a £ sign in prices. Thankfully the OEM prices aren't as bad and it looks like much more of a deal at mircodirect they are: £77.32 for Windows Vista-Home Premium 32Bit £121.01 for WindowsVistaUltimate32Bit were as the US OEM Version are: Home Premium: $120.89 Vista Ultimate $205.31 Which are much more like the US upgrade prices, Ok you can't transfer license like you can with full retail versions but I don't think I've ever transfered a personal license I know I have at work, so OEM can be a steal, it will install on a preinstalled system which I have done and it worked off the bat, see blog passim. So is this a case of Micro$oft getting greedy or another case of rip off Britian.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 21 Feb 2007 20:01 GMT
Monday, February 19
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 19 Feb 2007 23:54 GMT
While helping a friend out with the problem that he bought a S-Video to Scart cable and not a Scart to S-Video cable I came across a new site that I thought I'd better tell you all about. Its Pinouts.RU there in a link to the site on the button below
For many years I've used the Hardware Book http://www.hardwarebook.info/ i remember when it was a standalone app, both have a wealth of infomation and great for getting you out of trouble.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 19 Feb 2007 21:23 GMT
For some time now I've been using Google Analytics to compile and check stats involving my blog including what search words bring people to this place, not in any crazy way you understand by more curiosity. Normally the logs are pretty boring just lots of searches on techie words or parts numbers that I've blogged about but sometime there is something that like seeing a piece of gold in all the coal you go "EH, what the WTF?" So without much further ado I present this little piece of Google heaven. Someone searched on the Internet and ended up at my blog because they were searching for:
Yes if like me you went WTF! who in there right mind would put that in a search engine, of course its too broad your going to need to narrow down your search criteria. maybe by county or some such qualifier, but your never going to find it on your first hit, probably need to check Google Images . But back to Google Analytics and the server weblog, like Sherlock Homes I can tell our pervert lives in Nottingham, uses MSN to search on a Windows XP machine with IE6 and has NTL as a service provider. But Kevin you say how did he or she (yes I'm not going to be sexist, perverts come in all shapes and sizes) end up on your blog its not like my site in the centre for Gaelic Porn or that I have girls and boys with shamrocks covering the most interment places on every page. So a quick look back at the logs and the pages that brought the pervert to this site were:: Vista Content Protection Follow up: were I mention about a guy who owns the 'core' of the Vista Operating System New Statesman Blog: post were I mentioned about John Prescott being caught 'shagging' Reaction to Saddam's Execution post were I mentioned the 'Irish' government statement on Saddam's Death The word hard didn't bring anything up, I'm so glad that it was a nice bit of techie, left wing politics and got the smut seekers interest just maybe they stopped for two seconds and read the site before they were off to the next site on the list. Come on Kev whats the changes of that..... BTW if your looking for hard core Irish porn then look no further than here here or here PS. All Safe for Work Sunday, February 18
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Feb 2007 22:36 GMT
How extreme were conservative commentators in their remark this year? How about calls to nuke the Middle East and an allegation that a "gay ... mafia" used the congressional page program as its own "personal preserve." Right-wing rhetoric documented by Media Matters for America
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Feb 2007 21:20 GMT
well trackbacks seem to be pointless so I gone and turned them off. I was spending most of my time deleting and blocking lots and lots of trackback spam from pill pushers and porn merchents. So its got to the point of saying no more....so I've turned them off
Wednesday, February 14
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 14 Feb 2007 12:59 GMT
KNIVES......GRRRRR!!!!
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 14 Feb 2007 12:43 GMT
Only in Wales could you have a platform 0
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