Dave Cross’ Neighborhood

Slightly Campy Nostalgia Item 1/1

Back in 1991 Natwest decided to advertise their services using a series of glossy adverts about employees, set somewhat inexplicably, to the power strains of "Crockett's Theme" by Jan "The Hammer" Hammer.

Filling the Machine

The phrase "It's not all work, work, work" is seared indelibly into the collective national subconcious of the time.

I have no idea why this is currently stuck in my head but it is. So there.

The revolution will not be twittered[*]

No more slogans, No more excuses,
No more blinding our eyes and baring our asses to the world.
We have the power. We have the resources. We have the energy.
Let's get together and wreck shit.

All hail the Evil Nine

[*] franklin gothic no. 2 is the font of the revolution^**
[**] not included

British Museum

acme
Yesterday
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I went to the British Museum yesterday to see Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, which was pretty good. I booked online, and received the confirmation email below. I turned up at the museum, went to a self-checkin kiosk and it asked me for my order confirmation code. So what did I type in?

Bm

Right, I type in the huge number next to "Order confirmation". Unfortunately what it really wanted was the collection code, in small. It didn't ask for that. It asked for the order confirmation code. The one not in the huge font. The one not in bold. No, I'm not sure why there are two codes either. It fell to one of the humans at the desk to tell us this. As I'm sure he has to do every few minutes every day of the week. Moral of this story: think careful about what you call things and make humans happier.

Come and say hello at dConstruct

Some of the MOO Crew are heading down to Brighton tomorrow, for dConstruct. It's a one day conference - with a great line up - which we're all looking forward to.

Speakers aside, it's a very sociable conference - and we're looking forward to meeting new people there too. If you spot any of us, do come and say hello - and give us a card, if you have one!

We've seen a few orders whizzing through in the last few weeks, which we'd like to see in real life.

Like these MiniCards, by cole h, for the new app he's working on

And these Business Cards, by builtbydave

We've also spotted these great shots by people a little further afield. Sadly, I'm not sure we'll get to see these in person, but they definitely worth a look here:

Great photography and products make for great cards, by raisinsawdust

These cards are super-happy-cute, by Chisa

And more great cards via Wordle, this time by echo4ngel

And last but not least - I love these kind of shots. This one is by El Buen Matador

Why 2ch and Nico Nico Douga is great

【初音ミク】Sweetiex2【ハスキー＆メドレーPV】

This song is not only a great quality of electronic (like early days of capsule's), but has an amazing background story. This is a "theme song" for the 2ch thread "Husky and Medley" where a high-school girl (Medley) tried to find something she's better than another high-school girl (Husky) who looks almost perfect in everything, by asking for suggestions sometimes using the popular "Anchors" style on a 2ch thread.

She eventually felt in love with her and there's a lot of love affairs going on, just for a week, and there's a video of the summary of the 2ch threads available on Nico Nico Douga and it was viewed by more than 100k times. So this is like another "Densha-Otoko (Train Man)" but happening in 2008, where we can have a theme song that reflects the story in its lyrics with almost professional sound with Hatsune-Miku's voice. How amazing!

Zero Fill Love

Zero fill love

Just came across this great song ... the lyrics is mix of English, Japanese and Korean since this is a theme song of an online golf game "Pangya Season 4" organized by a Korena company. As you can see from the background picture, this song also features beloved Hatsune Miku, only for one phrase (it's obvious).

Oh, and WOW! The creator of this song blogs on Vox!

Moose

acme
5 days ago
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I was going to write about how I have come to love Moose, but I can't really beat how John Napiorkowski explained it on the perl-appengine list: "Without Moose, I'd probably have lost the faith and left Perl for another language..."

Which logging module?

acme
Aug 28, 2008
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One of Perl's mottos is "there is more than one way to do it". This is of course a great thing, except when there are two ways to do it and I can't decide which is the better one or the most popular one. Such is it with logging modules - there are two stong candidates: Log::Dispatch and Log::Log4perl. Both do about the same thing, which makes it annoying to decide between the two. Which one do you use? Which one should become the best practice CPAN module for logging?