Archive for August, 2007

Songs Of The Week #7

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

On rotation this week are some of my favourites songs from the Britpop genre, a style of music heavily influenced by ’60s British pop (especially The Beatles) and also 1980′s rock outfits like The Smiths. The Pulp music video is really awesome (yes I have been watching too much Man vs. Wild), it really fits with the mood of song and in some ways makes the track even better. The Oasis song is also a classic, obviously I could of put Wonder Wall here, but that’s kinda been played to death. Blur have so many good songs it’s hard to choose, I have all their albums, however this one came up on my iPod’s shuffle songs the other day and made me think of a Britpop post and it’s a good track too ;-)


Pulp
A Little Soul


Oasis
Champagne Supernova


Blur
There’s No Other Way




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Swings & Roundabouts

Monday, August 27th, 2007

It’s been a mixed week just gone, though fortunately things are settling down now. Last weekend my mum fell ill, and then early monday morning my dad had a heart attack. This was a bit worrying since his father died of a heart attack at about the same age. Luckily the health care system here is pretty on to it and so he was able to have heart surgery on wednesday morning. The operation went well and he was released thursday night—apparently this is normal with the microsurgery they do these days. They stick a tube with tools and mini cameras up a leg artery and work on the heart from the inside. However, he had a regression on saturday and was back in hospital, though it just appears to have been a reaction to the drugs. This morning he seems well, so we’ll see how we go.

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Songs Of The Week #6

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

The first two songs by Cary Brothers & Joshua Radin don’t have a music video, so the tracks linked to here are just someone’s visuals put to the song. They were the best encode of each track I could find on YouTube though. Newer tracks by both artists on YouTube have videos directed by Zach Braff, and their songs have been featured on a number of his projects including Scrubs and the film Garden State. Calexico are also pretty cool, lovin’ the whole Mexican band thing at the moment—I also have some Mexican hip-hop, but that’s another story ;-)


Cary Brothers
Honestly


Joshua Radin
Don’t Look Away


Calexico
Corona




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.NET Framework Stupidity

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The .NET Framework is meant to be backwards compatible, so if in my case I have v3.0 installed an application designed for v1.1 should work just fine. Well that’s the theory, however the installers for many apps won’t let you proceed, unless you have the exact version they were designed for installed. This is pretty damn annoying, since that application itself will in most cases run just fine.

The solution is to edit the .MSI installer package and remove the framework requirement check. To do this you need the Microsoft Orca MSI Editor, which is part of the 300MB+ Windows Installer SDK package. Fortunately some kind person has posted the 1.8MB Orca Installer separately.

Once you’ve installed that, open your offending application .msi in Orca and do a search for VSDCA_VsdLaunchConditions and remove every entry it finds. Save the changes and you’ll be ready to go, without the .NET Framework prerequisite check.

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