I updated my historical charts program to allow album and track charts, make it utf8 compatible and give it a graphical overhaul too, hurrahs all round.
Same process as before - when you first create each kind of chart it’ll take a while to fetch your data, subsequent charts will be created a whole lot faster. [...]
I made my program to generate charts for any date range from LastFM data available to anybody a few weeks ago and it’s had a positive response, being included on build.last.fm as an interesting extra kindofthing. Though still nobody has feedback or suggestions. Maybe in itself it’s relatively complete and I should think [...]
Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]
Don’t try to tell me that’s unintentional.
Did I ever mention how wonderful Regina Spektor’s voice is? Human of the Year gets more and more powerful everytime I hear it. A morning of concentration and I’m free for summer. The new Wordpress release is nicknamed Getz, in honour of the tenor saxophonist who took every opportunity to chat up [...]
By Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft, two Norweigan musicians. If you like Portishead, shades of Massive Attack, the trippy side of life, then take a listen. It’s too good not to share.
Chanced upon it on a compilation of Nordic jazz. If you’re subscribed to eMusic the whole album is currently free.
Put your computer’s CPU to good use when it’s on but you’re not doing anything with it: distributed computing takes one massive task, splits into pieces and has different computers work on them. Then it reassembles the results and is happy. So run one of these projects on your computer and lend a [...]