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Playing blindfolded for poverty - (Monday, June 29, 2009)
Here's a new video that I did for the global poverty project.
Shutting down North Korea - (Sunday, June 28, 2009)
Part of the answer to destroying the 1984ian country of North Country is financial sanctions. Close down Kim Jong Il's access to money, and suddenly he has nothing to keep people in the army happy - so the ruling elite will eventually revolt.
But it's all a waste of time when China undermine them. So is the answer just financial sanctions? Nope.
Obama actually does something! - (Thursday, June 18, 2009)
Obama has actually done something about North Korea. It wouldn't have actually been Obama, it would have been a guy named Stuart Levey but Obama has obviously authorised it.
What does it all mean? The best bit:
All financial institutions should remain vigilant regarding attempts by North Korean customers to make large cash deposits into new or existing accounts, as well as the associated risk of the passing of counterfeit currency. The Treasury Department remains concerned about North Korean production and distribution of high-quality counterfeit U.S. currency.
This will bring the government down if aggresively enforced. They'll just completely
run out of money, everyone in the army will get pissed off and eventually stop
supporting the government.
Plus, the US are tracking a North Korean ship that obviously is exporting stuff to terrorists. But this is more of a case of being able to dob them into the UN.
New Toehider EP, song and video - (Tuesday, June 16, 2009)
Mike has finished the Second Toehider EP in the series of 12.
In a big departure from his usual style, this album features solely acoustic tracks. Similar to Bob Dylan (except he's in tune) - you'd never know that he's a Manowar fan. Honest lyrics is the defining characteristic for this EP. Here's a video for one of the tracks:
David Lynch... - (Thursday, June 11, 2009)
Hi everyone.
Last couple of days I've been introducing Mrs Metal Theater to Twin Peaks, watching it along with her trying not to get too scared. It's been fun. Sort of. The bloke who wrote and directed Twin Peaks is David Lynch, who also did "Mulholland Drive", "Twin Peaks", "EraserHead" or "Blue Velvet". If you've seen any of those movies you'll know that Lynch is a strange guy. The phrase weirdo applies very well. Very strange man. The fact that he's a big fan of transcendental meditation freaks me out even more.
He also did "The Elephant Man" which is a great movie, and completely unlike the rest of his work.
Today I found out that he has a youtube channel. And in typical Lynchian style. It's bizarre. What's on it? 30 second weather reports. Like this:
If it was anyone else I'd complain that the sound and picture are out of sync. But knowing Lynch it's probably done on purpose. The guy is wierd.
Friendly URLs with ASP.NET - (Saturday, May 30, 2009)
I am rather excited because I've set up friendly URLs for the unique handbags website that I've been doing. What this means is that the links to the handbags look like this:
Party Bag Mercedes Handbag
Red And Black And White Handbag
instead of this:
http://www.victoriagoodridge.com/ViewItem.Aspx?Id=5
http://www.victoriagoodridge.com/ViewItem.Aspx?Id=25
cool huh? What this means is that google will like the site a lot more and hopefully give us more traffic.
Setting it up was a pain in the neck. First off my plan was to use the Application_BeginRequest event in the Global.asax. However this only is triggered for URL's with a .aspx in them, and anything else (.html etc) doesn't go through the ASP.NET pipeline. Works fine when you're developing locally (using visual studio's built in web server), but when you move it to IIS it doesn't work.
The second attempt was to install a ScriptModule in web.config, and setup IIS to handle all of the requests. This would have worked fine, except that my hosting provider doesn't give me access to the IIS admin panel. So no go for that.
The third and final successful attempt was to set up a default 404 page, using the web hosting's set up. This worked, and any URL that didn't work took me to a "NotFound.aspx" page that I had set up. Fortunately from here it preserved the URL! So it was quite easy to set up a little bit of code that looked at the URL, and if contained a handbag name, it does a Server.Transfer() to the right page. Done!
Dumb arse of the year - (Thursday, May 28, 2009)
And the award for biggest dumb arse in 2009 goes to: Uncle Dalu!
In my view, anyone stupid enough to climb into a tiger enclosure deserves everything they get.
I've got a very simple rule. If an animal is:
* A carnivore
* 4 times my weight
* Has teeth as big as my leg
* Has been known to attack people
I try to avoid being in the same room. Maybe that's over cautious?
Best quote of the article:
"In March Buddhist monks were brought in to bless the park and 'bring peace to the animals' after a Scottish teenage worker... was bitten by a white lion cub after putting her hand through a hole in a fence."
Looks like the blessings must have worked - after all, Uncle Dalu was only ripped in half by the tiger.
So why did they have to shoot the white tiger? Because he attacked someone? Now that makes sense.
What to do about North Korea - (Tuesday, May 26, 2009)
Kim "Hitler" Jong Il has decided to test another nuke. On the radio this morning it was a surprise to hear about North Korea (no mention of the concentration camps, as usual) - but the toothless and ignorant responses are starting to get on my nerves.
"We should impose sanctions" - UN (why didn't you do it 4 years ago?)
"We'll have a strong response" - US (like what? )
"We strongly condemn these test" - China (and we'll continue to send back north korean refugees to be executed)
So how to stop North Korea:
1. Stop the money laundering by Bureau 39. How do you think they can afford all of this stuff? Bombs, missiles and cognac?
2. Bother to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1695 and 1718.
3. The US needs to help out the North Koreans by implementing their own policy.
Look, just read the article yourself; fixing North Korea.
Satriani has a new band... - (Monday, May 25, 2009)
Named "ChickenFoot" (stupid name), it's a complete yawnfest. Incredible how so many great musicians can get together and write such boring music.
I stupidly confused them with Bumblefoot, who I'd never heard before but sounds like a complete champion!
Confession #16 - (Sunday, May 24, 2009)
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Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:57
User: ransworld
Comment: I thought you were complimenting me when you suggested I join the John Butler Trio
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 15:32
User: lach
Comment: No, I actually said "Join Butler's Neo" - Butler's Neo being a great group who cover songs from the Matrix dressed as butlers.