- May 9, 2009
- Page versus Database Query Caching
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet, Life, Technology
- Tagged with: Alternative, Beer, Cache, Crap, creative, data, Database, experiment, expert, forum, future, good, Hero, Hosting, market, nation, Nature, Plugin, price, problem, program, purists, QUERY, service, society, speed, universe, Website, WordPress, WP-Super-Cache
Introduction I’m a born twiddler. Even though something works quite happily, I’ll try something else. So it was yesterday. In an effort to improve the ‘user experience’ and promote a bit of feedback on this website, I’ve been twiddling with various plugins. Caching for Speed Some time ago I changed caching methods from Donncha’s WP [...]
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- May 2, 2008
- Jaques Brel – Amsterdam, a new translation
- Posted by Strangely
- Life
- Tagged with: Amsterdam, bank, Beer, boat, book, Classic, Dance, David Bowie, Dream, English, Facebook, faith, Fish, Flash, Great, Health, heart, house, index, jaques brel, Java, Jill, laugh, Lingering Tune, lyrics, market, Moon, morning, Music, Paroles, public, sleep, Sound, storm, Teeth, translation, YouTube
A better translation of the classic Jaques Brel song, “Dans le Port d’Amsterdam” by Jillian Greenwood
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- March 24, 2008
- Angst in East Lancs Wasteland
- Posted by Strangely
- Crawling Chaos, Freedom
- Tagged with: Beer, Christmas, comment, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, disaster, Discography, Doom, forum, friend, graph, Guitar, Head, headline, Health, Humour, index, Jeff, Keyboard, lyrics, Manchester, melody, mind, MySpace, Paroles, Prince, Recording, Roman, Sound, speech, street, Tape, toilet, Vision, waste
Angst in East Lancs Wasteland This was the banner headline in NME I think for the gig at the Leigh Festival in 1979. Either that or Sounds or Melody Maker, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sounds or MM. Two things stick in my mind about the gig (we played in the afternoon) apart [...]
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- December 14, 2007
- Zombie Dance (Zyclon B Zombies)
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Crawling Chaos, Life
- Tagged with: Beer, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, Dance, Discography, Equinox, food, good, graph, Homunculus, Jeff, Music, Newcastle, performance, Recording, Sound, Tape, Times, university, zombie
I’ve cleaned up the above track a bit although it’s still 14Meg in size and lasts quarter of an hour. It’s classed as Crawling Chaos although only two members took part in this version. This version of Zombie Dance is part of a commission given to Rees and Jeff by some chums, Zyclon B Zombies, [...]
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- September 17, 2007
- Jaques Brel – Amsterdam
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Internet
- Tagged with: Amsterdam, Arse, bank, Beer, Dance, David Bowie, dirt, Dream, English, faith, Fantastic, Fish, France, Head, Health, Human, jaques brel, Java, Jill, Joke, laugh, Lingering Tune, lyrics, March, Moon, Music, night, Paris, Paroles, power, Recording, sleep, Sound, street, Teeth, translation, Video, YouTube
Jaques Brel sings his song “Amsterdam” live and Davis Bowie’s recording for comparison.
Lyrics (paroles) in French and English
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