Oh yeah - Altera Enigma (with Jayson Sherlock and Jason De Ron of Paramecium fame) - are almost back with another album, and they're bringing out the prog again. The album is called "Angular Momentum", and I was fortunate enough that they gave me a download code for one of the tracks. "The View From Above" is a mature piece that perfectly showcases their collective craftiness as veterans of the trade.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this track, and honestly it took about the whole first minute to convince me; but as I found my head nodding along to the beat I discovered that the walls had fallen away from around me, and where my little study Read more [...]
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The View From Above – Altera Enigma – preview track from Angular Momentum
Oh yeah - Altera Enigma (with Jayson Sherlock and Jason De Ron of Paramecium fame) - are almost back with another album, and they're bringing out the prog again. The album is called "Angular Momentum", and I was fortunate enough that they gave me a download code for one of the tracks. "The View From Above" is a mature piece that perfectly showcases their collective craftiness as veterans of the trade.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this track, and honestly it took about the whole first minute to convince me; but as I found my head nodding along to the beat I discovered that the walls had fallen away from around me, and where my little study Read more [...] 
Our favourite Swedes were back in Brisbane last night on the second run of their world tour in support of Heritage, the latest offering from a catalogue of eclectic and mind expanding music. Opeth played a road set of songs with a focus on the heavy, favouring pieces from their last three albums: Heritage (2011), Watershed (2008) and Ghost Reveries (2005).
The last time I saw Opeth was at The Palace in Melbourne on their 2008 tour and have most certainty retained their ability to produce a great time, front man Mikael Åkerfeldt offering some funny interjections and possibly not-so-accurate claims between songs, like when he introduced 
The jack on your guitar is basically a spring, which securely holds your signal cable in the place in order for a constant connection to made.
Referred to as an input jack, but actually an output (as it sends your guitar signal out of the guitar and into your amp), this connection point is susceptible to fatigue and/or corrosion (aka rust). Sometimes depending on the jack could be low quality or the solder job may not be so good and can easily disconnect inside the guitar.
Whichever the case, replacing the jack with a high quality one isn't too much of a drama. A seasoned guitar tech could do it in 3-4 minutes, while a cautious novice should 
This arrived in the old "Electronic-Mailbox" this afternoon. JetPack is a very cool web tool that lets you leverage some of WordPress.com's tools on a self-hosted blog.
Also, as it turns out, JetPack will send you a yearly report of the stats your blog has generated.
Of course, my blog is no slashdot, slashdot or LifeHacker, but it still had 14K unique visitors through the year which is pretty cool, and very much appreciated - thank you for stopping by!
Read the Linux Action Show, it's more cute than a whole bunch of numbers, the summary is:
New posts: 52
Most popular page: Create a self extracting 7-zip archive that automatically 
I doubt that I was the only one left surprised by the acquisition of Lucasfilm today by Disney. There weren't any indicators on #Disney or @DeathStarPR ( beforehand so I assume that it was kept a tight-lipped secret until the deal was done.
Talking about the deal, George Lucas has been quoted by #Disney:
"I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime."
His statement is confirmed by #Disney in his article "@DeathStarPR (":
The first time I saw Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was the midnight showing at the Fox Theatre in Westwood, CA. I had 
