There’s something catchy about the badger badger badger tune, I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s the slightly intoxicating mix of audio and visual, but I just keep coming back for more… it’s like hamster dance all over again.
Whilst listening to some of our old favourite tracks the other night Jo and I started to chat about ‘long’ songs. Un-educated on the subject we considered that perhaps Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain’ was the longest track we had ever heard, clocking in at over 9 minutes.
However, a quick search through our music folder revealed much longer tracks from artists such as Orbital and Spiritualized. ‘Cop shoot cop…’ is the last track on the Spiritualized album ‘Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space’ and is an impressive 16 minutes.
What is the longest ‘non-classical’ song?
Today I am mostly feeling ‘urgh’, so is Jo my wife, in fact she’s feeling particuarly ‘urgh’ because she also has the job of carrying our as yet unborn child. Not an easy job when the little tyke is already practicing his/her dance moves every half hour.
‘Urgh’ is a combination of things, runny nose, soar throat, chesty cough, fuzzy head… It’s not a nice thing to have when everywhere around you people are joyous and festive. Hopefully soon the large volumes of Vitamin C will defeat the ‘urgh’ and I can return to normality, a place where I can breath through my nostrils and sleep soundly at night.
We had a bit of a baby related scare this morning. So after a quick call to NHS Direct we rushed over to the Maternity unit at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot.
The staff there were fantastic and quickly determined that baby was ok. They decided that to be on the safe side they would do another scan, and we were delighted to discover that it’s a girl!
There are also signs that the ‘Echogenic Bowel‘ which was detected at our 20 week scan is no longer there, good stuff. :)
So, I finally got round to scrapping my old domain and shifting everything across to this site. I’ve spent what seems like hours, days and weeks re-designing my site over and over… finally settling on something which should be simple enough to evolve and grow with time.
It was quite a trip down memory lane to dig through all the old bits, deciding where they could logically sit within a new format. Looking back at what you have done in previous years really makes you realise how much you are able to seemingly expand your knowledge without realising.
A couple of years ago when I set up dovelop.com I had only just started to play with server side languages. I built dovelop using Dreamweaver MX, relying heavily on the built in ‘Server Behaviours’. Now I look back at the code with embarrassment, not quite able to believe that I thought what I had produced was in any way acceptable.
I guess that to the untrained eye it would have looked suitably complicated and clever, but now, with a better understanding of languages like ASP and PHP I can see why fellow developers like Drew McLellan are such advocates of hand written code.
In many ways it boils down to change. To write a snippet of code yourself, taking that extra time up front reaps benefits in the long run. You understand the code, then later you come back and change it for another purpose, understanding more and more as you go. Although tools like Dreamweaver are undoubtedly great for getting started, they hinder development if you rely on the ‘unchangeable’ built in behaviours.
I guess the theme here is change. Learn how to change things, change is good.
