The Blog of G

Hindsight

If you are a fan of the loudness that is “System of a Down” you should be familiar with this song, but possibly not the musicians, a fantastic cover version and a lot *ahem* easier on the eye

Hands up if your surprised by how much Violins can rock, I was.

Getting married? Looking for idea’s for a wedding cake? take a look at this…

I’ve been getting myself back up to speed with wordpress a lot in the last few month’s and while I’m not using all these plugins, I’m definitely going to be testing them, thanks for the post Conor

And finally as the F1 testing season kicked off last week and the anticipation is building for the new season, I stumbled across this video of Bruno Senna training and being the king of all multi-taskers

Aerobic training, Core muscle & balance training, concentration, Focus, as as well as eye hand coordination training, inspired!

Wise words

• Any youtubers out there I uploaded a 9min vid but when I play the Vid on youtube it's only got the first 4-5 mins any suggestions? #
• @darraghdoyle thanks, I'll give youtube another shot if it borks again off to vimeo I go in reply to darraghdoyle #
• I just got an e-mail from a republican politician he spins the mess they left Obama with into the recession is all Obama's fault *delete* #
• @darraghdoyle Vimeo has an upload limit of 500mb a week, so it's off to blip.tv for me by the looks of things in reply to darraghdoyle #
• @darraghdoyle first time I've used youtube the upload doesn't work bad precedent imo so I'm off to Blip.tv I've used it b4 and it just works in reply to darraghdoyle #
• @NiallHarbison I just tried 3 times to upload a 9min vid each time it showed the first 4:42 and none of the rest is there a trick to it? thx in reply to NiallHarbison #
• anyone know if there is a maximum file size for uploads on Magnet Fiber to the home? #
• @smccarron Lol some of us are still trying to work off 'friday pizza' from way back in reply to smccarron #
• @NiallHarbison There were 2 problems, My ISP (still waiting for a call back) and my file type I re-encoded in MP4 and it flew up no probs in reply to NiallHarbison #
• http://bit.ly/dg3o4e it can't be true @ellybabes wouldn't go near it if it were Thx for sharing Conor L #
• Backups completed, I'm off to play with the Amazon Delivery, if it's Tekken 6 that's me for the day #
• @ellybabes are you sure it's from Twitter and the mail isn't the phising attempt? in reply to ellybabes #
• @jasonroe Tim e to start carrying pepper spray in reply to jasonroe #
• I did an Seo test on my WP blogs, search engines are seeing the http://www and http://domain as duplicate content any ideas how to resolve? #
• @aidanmcc nice one off to google to find out how to do that now bloomin internets is hard work in reply to aidanmcc #
• 301 redirect done meta descriptions next thank you woorank http://bit.ly/bv8daF for the free analysis helpful when you havent a breeze #
• RT @ClaireVWilliams: http://twitpic.com/110vy0 Hope the numbers on our cars are large this year as our drivers helmets look scarily similar! #
• Feck, 301 redirect not working as expected #
• anyone know if it's possible to redirect http://www to http://domain? using .htaccess #
• @icedcoffee I was on to @blacknight support already they pointed me to the .htaccess file, for this, now the main page is gone from www. in reply to icedcoffee #
• @blacknight support thanks for all the help today #
• @Culch_ie Great night in The Sugar Club, can't wait for the next one #
• @mneylon Good morning and Happy Birthday to you, hope you have a great day in reply to mneylon #
• @anthonymcg lol so where's the overgrown rat? in reply to anthonymcg #
• RT @sidepodcast: there she is http://bit.ly/cXcLQm << first virgin livery pics #f1 #
• RT @InsideFerrari: Four Km of cueue to get into the circuit It is Alonso mania at Valencia with more than 30,000 people attending the test #
• Groundhogs and Sugar http://bit.ly/d8xj2K #
• Best F1 car launch pun ever! http://bit.ly/aAlNO8 #
• @mondellopark and I only found the FB page this evening Still might pop down to the Rally X at the weekend in reply to mondellopark #
• @icedcoffee its looking like 6-8 real title contenders 4 former world Champions (inc the 7 timer they all want to beat) EPIC setup for it in reply to icedcoffee #
• @mondellopark ah ok, I hope to be attending a good few events there this year, I may even make it for the RallyX this weekend in reply to mondellopark #
• @twentymajor not terribly environmentally friendly either having everyone revving the engine faster in a lower gear = higher emissions in reply to twentymajor #

Elly and I had a great night out last night at the Culch.ie birthday party/Groundhog Day movie screening.

The venue was the “The Sugar Club” and the evening began with Darren on-stage introducing the movie and announcing that there would be some spot prizes later. Although, he was ambushed by some of the other Culch.ie crew with a large chocolate cake. It was almost a shame to cut it though as it was the Culch.ie logo, but cut it was and passed to the eagerly waiting audience.

Groundhog Day is a film I have seen before but not this millennium, so it was almost like a whole new film to me. Elly on the other hand had never seen it and (like me and everyone else) laughed through most of it.

What stood out for me, watching this film again was the character of Ned Ryerson. I’d never noticed it before but was this character the inspiration for Ace Ventura’s irritating “funny” voice and mannerisms?

Once the movie finished some spot prizes were given out (congrats to all the winners) and the lights came up allowing the audience to mingle and chat while enjoying the bar facilities, there didn’t seem to be any rush to clear people out and as a result there was a fantastic friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

An excellent evening was had by all and for the my first Culch.ie ‘event’ I was very impressed. Spot prizes, cake, a great movie, a witty and intelligent MC and a great venue, how could I not be impressed. Oh, did I mention there was cake!

I can’t wait for the next one, some come on Darren don’t keep us in suspense…

• Which is a better solution for embedding something in a web page frameset or an inline frame? anybody? anybody? Bueller? #
• Never mind, I tried both and an inline frame is defo the better option for what I'm doing #
• WTF? I hear an ice-cream truck #
• Just watched In Bruges, not as funny as the hype made out but bloomin brill all the same #
• Trying to find a free/cheap video editing app that does PIP from different movie files and seperate audio tracks/mixing any suggestions? #
• hmmm seesmic seems to be not sending my tweets #
• some of the time #
• and as soon as I say that, they start to work again Grrrrrr #
• AVS Video editor free and functional according to their site works grand until you try to save a movie then slaps a load of text on it. FAIL #
• Time for some sleeps gotta be bright and sparkily for tomorrow #
• I've a new respect for Morgan Freeman, narration is surprisingly difficult and there is only so much you can "fix in the mix" #
• RT @F1Fanaticupdate Have Mercedes got their history wrong?: Mercedes claim the “silver arrows” livery revealed today… http://bit.ly/4nu0yz #
• just realised waiting for the windows bong to signal end of reboot and getting back to something constructive is pointless if sound is muted #
• Mornin' Y'all #
• just a test nothing to see, move along now #
• Getting really bored with the Apple hype, we know it's coming, we know the fan(atics) will love it and the rest will be put off by them #
• right next stop post office, then shopping… #
• Jam in the Dam – some ToonZ http://bit.ly/b6GikN #
• Must… finish… rendering… video… *thump* ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz #

We’re off to Jam in the Dam in march and as I mentioned before, I’m really excited to see Les Claypool play, but I have never heard of the rest of the bands so I decided to do a bit of research on them. Moments Later Youtube was fired up and being searched hard.

I made up a play-list of a random selection of video’s by the artists & bands (I could find) that are playing.

Finding Les’s work was easy thanks to youtube’s Vevo service so there are a few Primus Video’s and some of his own as well. The other artists (Umphrey’s McGee, Yonder mountain string band, The new Mastersounds & Josh Phillips Folk Festival) seem to only have live recording’s available (on youtube anyway) so I’m going to have to dig a bit further for more on them and the others listed for the show.

One thing I did notice looking through all the search results is that all the bands seem to have one thing in common, they seem to be fond of guest appearances and jamming live. I wonder will there be much of that? here’s hoping anyway

In the meantime here is the playlist I built…

If anyone reading this is planning on making the trip, or has been to a previous Jam in the Dam, leave a comment below.