I have literally just scrobbled my 100,000th track since I joined Last.fm on 27 December 2005 meaning I have played an average of 107 tracks a day.
The song that got the privilege to be song #100,000 was Unit It Sleeps by Metallica, more specifically it was the S&M version.
So nearly two weeks ago I went to see Iron Maiden perform at Twickenham Stadium in London, it was the only UK date on their world Somewhere Back in Time tour. They were supported by Lauren Harris, Within Temptation, and Avenged Sevenfold. I was located towards the rear of the stadium in the stands, where we were plagued by poor sound for all of the support acts and occasionally during Maidens performance itself, the atmosphere when Maiden were playing more than made up for this. With the crowd chanting every lyric with passion, even Bruce was left speechless. Another highlight was I listed to Churchill twice in one day 
The set list was as follows:
Seriously, a Welsh bloke phoned 999 (the UK emergency number) to report a large bright stationary object in the sky which had been there for at least thirty minutes. What a total waste of police time and taxpayers money.
Last night I went with my sister and her friend to see Bon Jovi live at Ashton Gate, Bristol. It was an absolutely fantastic gig, the support act (a local band), switchbladeuk, were not that great personally and it was a shame that The Feeling were not supporting. The set list was what you would expect from Bon Jovi with a surprise thrown in, producing a smashing 2 hours of audible pleasure. I also kinda forgot to mention I got to go on stage, for an entire three songs You Give Love a Bad Name, Summertime, and Raise Your Hands because my sister won a competition.
Photos are available here.
It’s about time I wrote an entry about this amazing opportunity I have been given, I have joined the phpBB development team and I will be helping them with their journey towards the next major release, 3.2 or Ascraeus. Sadly I am currently quite busy with stuff that needs finishing off before I can jump in and start committing, but I am immensely looking forward to being in the thick of it so to speak.
I’m not sure what I can really say to that, other than n00b!
One of my NSLU2’s went up the swanny two weeks back. Typically it was the one 80 miles away at home, that not only is my primary mail exchanger but also the DHCP server for my home network, chances are somebody might notice. Thankfully I have the ability to fail over DHCP onto sandman with a one line configuration change and a restart of dnsmasq, which I did.
Whilst I was at home this past week I got to work trying to work out what was up. The documentation in Debian about the LED sequences told me that it was getting stuck at the initramfs stage of boot. Basically it couldn’t load the actual operating system off the discs. This meant I would have to delve deep and play with the contents of the flash memory.
I mounted the USB sticks that I use as its discs on my server and extracted a copy of the current kernels and initramfs images that were on it. I also found the Debian installation flash firmware and set about hacking the two. I found some instructions on how to modify an existing image which is what I did. I swapped out the kernel and initramfs in the firmware for the latest ones on my discs and flashed the NSLU2. Same thing happened! So I then set about using the previous kernel version which worked like a charm. For now I have removed the new kernel from it and forced it to keep the old version. I will look into updating it when I have a little more time.
… and only succeeds in giving himself facial lacerations.
On Thursday 22nd of May a man from Plymouth detonated a device in a café toilet in the newly redeveloped Princesshay shopping area of Exeter. The device was apparently so pathetic some customers in the café did not even hear it. Police sealed off the surrounding area including the High street and the bus station, the main train station (St. David’s) had armed police deployed with all toilet and waiting room facilities locked.
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Chris is back at home. (3 days ago)
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