Music for coding

Not sure how I missed her voice, wow!
Christina Novelli – Concrete Angel (the acoustic version is amazing)

Christina Novelli – Concrete Angel (the acoustic version is amazing)

Not bad. A simple arrangement, so you can concentrate on the song and not the complicated drum kit programming. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD8IY7Q_n-U

Now… who does this remind me of? I was thinking Sinead O’Connor, but that’s not it. One of those tip of the tongue things…

Here’s one from me. Maybe not one to code by, but a good one to play when you give up the obscure it-works-for-you-but-nobody-else bug hunt and decide it is probably time to hit the sack when you can hear the early dawn chorus outside…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amqUWjwHhus

Well another website that is great for that kind of hell… HasBean
Proper coffee freshly roasted, mmm think I’ll have to go and make myself one now.

HasBean

Awesome. Now is there a tea version? ;-)

I just use a combination of Amazon and Twinings for tea, but if there is a tea version I’d be very happy!
Coffee blast first thing, then followed by large amounts of tea all day.
English Breakfast/Assam first thing, then Ceylon for lunch time, then I’ve found Twinings keemun nice for the afternoon.
Although Lipton Morocco mint & spices is nice as well in the afternoon, but you’ve got to really like mint for that!

Well it seems the “Concrete Angel” song is written about RISC OS Toolbox, it maybe nice – but it’s damned annoying putting massive for loops into the event handler to work out what value event code I need.

I guess if you bang your head long enough against the concrete it does give way ;-)

“Concrete Angel”

Would that be Martina McBride or Gareth Emery?

Played just now on AnimeNFO – “Emotions” by Galneryus.

Epic music for those late-night debugging sessions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw0CRRAuliY

AES Dana. Just listening to their album called Leylines, first one is a classic, Alignments.
I’m going to get shouted at soon for the volume :-(
(It was the Gareth Emery version, Christina Novelli)

Hmm.

There’s some awful sounding stuff in this thread. And some not so bad.

I’m not saying which is which, though. :)

But have a contribution or two from me: youtube.com/watch?v=dtLHiou7anE

Something a little more modern: youtube.com/watch?v=P2K7D-uMH2g

And something off the most recent album I purchased: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXvXV42Qk

When coding (or doing any other kind of work)?

In theory: I listen to ClassicFM – though other stations, and sometimes my own collection when set to shuffle, sometimes get a look in.

In practice: I forget to switch the radio on more often than not.

There’s some awful sounding stuff in this thread. And some not so bad.
I’m not saying which is which, though. :)

;-)

In theory: I listen to ClassicFM – though other stations, and sometimes my own collection when set to shuffle, sometimes get a look in.

I used to code with “ClassicFMtv” off satellite. Was lovely and relaxing. That went away and most of its playlist was maintained by “oMusic”, but eventually that finished. I guess not enough audience?

youtube.com/watch?v=dtLHiou7anE

Not available to watch on mobile devices. Meh. I don’t tend to watch unknown YouTube links on the computer as YouTube not only tracks them without giving you an opportunity to fully erase this history, it also associates with other accounts. Maybe last week I had some fun watching idiotic car wrecks. I’m over it, stop suggesting this to me! So I YouTube using Dolphin on the iPad with cookies and such to be discarded and no profile signed in to. I guess Google could associate by IP address, but so far they don’t appear to be doing this…..yet.

youtube.com/watch?v=P2K7D-uMH2g

I like that. I really like that. Bookmarked. Thanks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXvXV42Qk

I was going to say you probably hated Galneryus, but then you went and followed up a nice piano piece with Gary Numan? Nice to know I’m not the only one with eclectic tastes.

Sadly, tomorrow is Monday. The four-day weekend has come to an end. Time to go a bit (!) melancholy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CGIii_eTOk

Well in that case you’ll love autechre, aphex twin and photek ;-)
They do redefine what “music” is, or as most people think what it isn’t!

Of course there’s good old Ozric’s :-D

Not available to watch on mobile devices.

I wonder if that’s because of the HD video? Although since YouTube usually defaults to a lower resolution, possibly not. Pass.

Well, it was a single video containing this and this – all six of the latter, rather than just the first three, though – coupled with some rather nice visuals. Slo-mo captures of stunning landscapes, that sort of thing.

I don’t tend to watch unknown YouTube links on the computer as YouTube not only tracks them without giving you an opportunity to fully erase this history, it also associates with other accounts.

I can’t say I’ve seen any evidence of this – but that’s probably because scripts are only partially allowed on YouTube, cookies don’t live beyond the session, and I expect Ghostery’s blocking stuff as well. And I very rarely sign in. Take all these things out of the equation and I probably would see evidence of it. :)

I was going to say you probably hated Galneryus

It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve heard today, put it that way. :)

but then you went and followed up a nice piano piece with Gary Numan?

Perhaps I should have chosen something else of his? How about this old album track?

Or, given the first YouTube link I posted here, how about this old b-side?

I believe I have some Aphex Twin in my collection¹. Never heard of Autechre and Photek, though.

¹ [checks]. Yup – a couple of “best of” type things; “Classics” and “Selected Ambient Works 85-92”.

some Aphex Twin in my collection

I wrote on my blog not so long ago that being a pensioner in modern Britain is about as nice as being a pensioner in an Aphex Twin video. Gee, I wonder what one I could be referring to?
Not really my taste in music, but some pretty hardcore visuals.

When you publish videos, you can choose various options like whether or not to allow embedding, or playback on mobile devices. I don’t quite understand the point of the latter, given how easy it is to rip stuff on a computer (and how hard it is to do the same on a tablet). But, it’s a choice and the uploader of that track made it…

I use other Google services (Drive is a useful way to push files around my hardware given the iPad’s near total inability to share with anything that doesn’t have an Apple logo stuck to it), and Google have taken the rather obnoxious attitude of “sign in once, sign in to everything”. They have recently extended this to apps, which means my GMail app rarely fetches mail correctly any more as I need to be signed in to my Android/GMail profile for that, but I suspect it gets bumped when I sign in to YouTube with my blog profile for uploading videos. I have not, since this sign-in-everywhere crap tried signing in with my personal (neither of the above) profile. Let’s not even get into the “use your real name instead of a pseudo” questions that it keeps asking me.

Still, at least they aren’t quite as obnoxious as PayPal that wanted a copy of my official identity papers. I told them that when they are classed as a bank and subject to international banking laws and regulations, I would be happy to comply. Please notify me when this occurs. ;-) My account is still “unverified” as I point-blank refuse to associate it with a real account, and they get a new credit card for each transaction which raises all sorts of flags – I guess they have never heard of virtual credit cards in the US? Or maybe PayPal just don’t like not having free access to people’s payment? Still, the eBay password fiasco demonstrates why it is good to wear a tinfoil hat in the presence of PayPal. Speaking of which, eBay France has finally gotten around to a message on the front page saying “you probably ought to change your password”. My thoughts on this are extremely rude, as is my “new” eBay password. The beauty of that being that nobody there can comment on my password as it would imply that it is kept in cleartext somewhere. But, hey, that wouldn’t surprise me.¹

¹ Nobody has mentioned this yet but I wonder – names, real names, addresses, phone number, and supposedly-encrypted passwords² were lifted. What about the information regarding “your secret question and its response”? That could be a total gold mine of information, given that many secret questions tend to be the same thing – what was your mother’s maiden name / name of your first pet / blah blah.

² If I knew I had access to that sort of information, the day before I would arrange a way to create dozens and dozens of accounts – all with known passwords (some identical, to try to defeat the salt). Crypto is hellish complicated, but it can often be incrementally weakened by having a series of samples to which you know the result beforehand. Isn’t this how WEP was originally broken?

For anyone wanting an introduction to the works of Autechre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO9ZY5V461c

After spending a couple of weeks banging my head against the wall for a simple problem (the compiler was saying a declared value wasn’t defined, when I was including the correct file – turns out if you include them in the wrong order a nice ifndef means it doesn’t get defined)
So I think something like Metallica One is in order

So I think something like Metallica One is in order

Motorhead – then you know why your head hurts. So you can wander off and chill with Kitaro.

Coke Studio and Emancipator at the moment