I was having trouble finding a cd version of Swahili Blonde – Man Meat so I finally gave up and bought it from Amazon MP3. The following link will take you right to the place you should be (UP YOURS APPLE STORE):

Click here to buy Swahili Blonde – Man Meat

I really love the album. It reminds me of some of the crazy Sublime albums, John Frusciantes earlier stuff like Niandres lades and usually just a t-shirt and some others… I can’t remember their names. These are albums I very much enjoy listening to because they escape a lot of the constraints other artists have gotten themselves into… Including me.

I think John Frusciante’s input is spot on but hands up to the original Swahili Blonde gang for having such a fantastic sound. I like the fact that the album doesn’t get to that serious level that leaves you feeling a bit empty. I also like a break from lyrically driven songs… It’s an all round good album for me.

I can’t really rate music, each to their own and all that… So i’ll just say that this has become my favourite album.

I was going to go over the songs and write some of the stuff I feel when listening… Alas, I don’t feel pressured by the album to specifically think of anything, It really just lets you glide. I’ll tell you if it becomes more bemusing as I listen to it; at the moment It feels clean. Rather than being tainted by the life of the musicians, it is more defined by the music’s abstract nature itself. I love that, I love that a lot.

Thanks Swahili Blonde, great listen… Sounds great on my Bose Mazda 6 MPS speakers too, yippee.

I always forget it, how do you work out a percentage… So here you are, this is how you work out a percentage:

(Given amount/ Total amount) * 100

example:

My website has had 1,522 unique visitors.

There are 6,697,254,041 people in the whole world

(1522/6697254041) * 100

*cries*… I’m not divulging in the percentage of the world that visits my site, because it will drive me into a deep depression…

But there you have it: How to work out a percentage.

Mountain Dew was always a  childhood favourite of mine. I remember as a family, travelling down to the west coast – Woolacombe – and grabbing a can of Mountain Dew with my brothers whilst my parents set up the tent. Ah those fantastic days, been and gone…

I walked into the garage with my cousin and his friend to get a refreshing beverage after skating and found a bottle of Mountain Dew resting delicately in the fridge. Ah Pepsi, you’ve outdone yourself once again.

It doesn’t taste quite the same as I remember it but it’s still deliciously dangerous and packed full of badness… YUM YUM.

60g of sugar, oh boy I love this drink so much, it’s a mans drink for sure *he says vibrating across the table*.

Anyway, get down to your local store and buy some Mountain Dew, it’s good for you! (James Trusler is not held responsible for any deaths caused by caffeine and sugar contents present in this fantastic drink and any other problems that may arise from the consumption of Mountain Dew).

Enjoy!

Google Chrome RSS Feed not working? That’s right!

Try and click on my RSS Feed button at the top of the page using Google Chrome and all hell will break loose.

Reason: Google Chrome does not ship with an RSS Feed browser so you’ll have to go look for an extension.

Luckily I found one for you and it seems to work fine:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

I am astonished at it not having an RSS browser by default, it seems like a pretty standard feature these days?

Crazy.

I wouldn’t normally blog about such a thing but I was a little pissed off at the simple yet ridicously stupid comment left by a Valve member on Steam forums.

I found an issue with the Steam user interface on the News Page and decided to report it with a friendly suggestion:

Javascript problem on the Steams UI News Page.

When you scroll to the bottom, it uses Ajax to call the latest news articles, appends them to the bottom of the table and extends the scrollbar. Unfortunately because of this, when you want to use the menu items at the bottom of the page, you can never do so, because the page consistently appends old news on to the bottom. It reminds me of a Mac, try to select something at the bottom and the dock comes up, you can never get to it. lol.

Can we not have some archive feature instead of this? Ajax is great but it introduces some problems I once made this schoolboy error, lovely to see many others make it too… phew.

You could have a button on the News page at the bottom that calls the “LoadMoreNews()” function within the news.js instead? Should do the trick? Perhaps put a counter on there like “show next 10 news articles”, but it’ll have to be dynamic; if the user comes to the last set of news articles, it’ll need to say for example “show next 3 articles”. No doubt you got some object methods/paramaters lurking around with that info.

All the best and good luck!

Ok, so that’s fair enough right? I awaited a response and this is what I got:

It’s intended how it is now. The footer is only included so that news pages that filter to only a few stories don’t end abruptly. If you are viewing all news then you will indeed be scrolling for a long time before reaching it, but it’s not a primary navigation element and is considered less useful than seeing more news.

Well, great feature jmccaskey, I’m really happy to see that Valve’s team are well rehearsed in defending their coding… Boo.

Anyway, just a rant of the day kind of thing. Hope they fix it.

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Why bash your banana round whilst carrying it in your hand when you can buy a banana guard.

Only the best for your banana!

Buy it for your girlfriend at Christmas, watch her grab your banana and load it into the banana guard, she won’t be bashing that for a while! eh-oh…

Amongst the stack of reading materials in Tesco, I managed to find an amusing collection of comics and children books. This one specifically made my belly explode with chuckle power.

They call it – “Grandpa in my pocket” – Notice the fact that it’s a “special magazine”.

I… I just can’t breathe… Oh please, help, stop me laughing. I just can’t help but think of the old man in Family Guy – ” ‘Sssscuse me Ssssssonnyy “.

I can’t believe they gave this children’s magazine such a sworded name.

Look at the positioning of that poor boy… He sure does look surprised to find that Grandpas “cap” is shrinking.

My girlfriend had obviously been searching around YouTube for a while and stumbled across this video… I watched it and absolutely pissed myself, I think you need to be a developer to actually laugh, but that’s another matter. It’s so spot on, some of the images in it like the lady biting the laptop, excellent… haha.

So here is the video:

Big ole thanks to the poster – Oferspiegel -  for making me laugh.