A note to say that a successor to Historical Charts is available at twothreefall.co.uk/lastfmexplorer. Redesign and restructure aside, new features alongside the charts that went before include:
Interactive charts and plots of weekly playcounts
Charts for only new artists
Information about extreme weeks
For an example see what it does with my data.
I’m pleased with how it’s turned [...]
I’ve been playing about with Django and Last.fm data, intended as an eventual upgrade to historical charts. It’s fun .. I now know I play most music in March and November (university deadline time!), that my top three artists of 2010 so far are Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and The Delgados, and that my [...]
Played a game of Scrabble with Kylie the other night, broke about four hundred records:
Me – 469 / Kylie – 397 = 866 combined 0_o
Her best – 122 for squirmy.
My best – 72 for (la)ziest, 64 for fainter.
And hence we are an awesome couple.
Then I sit and look down to my left and wonder what to write.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be entirely happy with the appearance of something I’ve designed entirely.
In other news, Felix Laband’s music is genius.
An overhaul is good for the soul. Events have clearer significance, thoughts and words show entirely different meanings and subtleties, stresses fall in different places and most importantly, everything takes a little less effort.
In other words, I’ve completely redesigned the site and am quite happy with the current outcome. It’s an extension of [...]
A slight redesign and I’m suddenly a lot happier with the appearance of the site. A page for scripts and maybe a page for words will hopefully appear too, though there’s little chance of anything substantial before a holiday of some kind.
Saw ‘Trail of Dead at (the?) Oran Mor in Glasgow last night, [...]