Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
A new album by heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold has been released on the 27th of July. The album is dedicated to their lost drummer and friend; The Rev. Dream Theatre drummer Mike Portnoy has assisted the band in completing the album in The Rev’s absence.
I’d like to write about a couple of songs from the album. The first being my favourite song from the album Save Me. This song progresses through a variety of different stages. The vocals, guitar and drumming are all very passionately composed together. This song is a 10 minute wonder and it’s just one of those songs I find myself uncontrollably turning on when I crank on the iPod.
The second song titled So Far Away may well be my second favourite song on the album. This song contains Synyster Gates‘ (Lead Guitarist) first ever written lyrics. The song is relatively slow compared to the rest of the album. It starts off with only a singer and guitarist playing then finishes on a more epic note with the rest of the band joining in. The lyrics have been very passionately conceived and are straight to the point.
The rest of the album is also brilliant and well worth listening to. I realize that this isn’t everyone’s type of music but I think there should at least be something on the album that you find interesting.
This console program imports your last.fm playcounts into your iTunes library. It has slowed down on purpose to wait 3 seconds between each ‘page’ load due to last.fm API restrictions. It still chewed through my library (6700 songs) at a reasonable speed — just leave it running in the background.
This program is quite handy if you’re a frequent user of last.fm and iTunes/iPod. You may need it in the case of having to delete your library (or accidently deleted playcounts) and would like your playcounts back from “the cloud.”
The program is written in C#. It makes use of the .NET framework and lastfm-sharp. You may need .NET framework v3.5 to run the program (as that’s what it’s compiled for)
Last.FM 2 iTunes Playcount Populator [Download Executable]
I personally use the playcounts to create dynamic playlists. This is done since there’s no way I’m going to rate all the songs in my iTunes library.
Google has updated their Google Images search engine. I quite like the change as it gets rid of pages and presents the image results like its one page. This means no more clicking back and forward, easily comparing images in the search with another image in the search.
I have read some posts on a forum about the update and people seem to be complaining about the cluttered look. I quite like the look as it allows more images to be placed into one frame rather than having a tabulated, space consuming look.
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Trying to keep people happy is tough. A community I develop a SA:MP Pawn script for has a Suggestions sub-forum, which quite frankly is a nightmare.
A suggestions sub-forum may be a good idea in theory. I fail to see the point when a project is developed for free and the developers have ideas of their own. I’m sure if the project is as a hobby then the developers would prefer to implement their own ideas, correct?
Not only that but the people who are making suggestions seem to get butt-hurt when a suggestion is rejected. It makes the process a lot more difficult to reject a suggestion that doesn’t fit with the internal image of the project.
I thought maybe it’d be best just to have the suggestion permanently pending. Only the completely ridiculous or impossible ideas would be rejected. This also saves having to reject or accept only “half good ideas” i.e. ideas that are actually multiple ideas — part of the idea is good and the other part is bad. The downside to doing this was that it became quite messy to browse and it makes the management look lazy due to a lack of cleanup.
I do not think that there should be a public suggestions sub-forum on a free project until the internal team has run clean out of ideas. In the case of this community it puts extra pressure on developers, causes developers to procrastinate rather than develop and creates an unnecessary negative image.
This is my first post, hopefully I will find some use to this whole blogging thing.
