I don’t know about you but I really cannot stand Microsoft Windows Media Player. It’s soo slow and memory hungry, it can’t burn properly and it’s so hungry to rip music it will usually start ripping it all incorrectly before I can check whats happening. It also has a bizarre stutter at the start of tracks sometimes caused by a memory bottleneck, which just should not happen on a high performance system like mine.
Anyway today I decided to throw in the towel and get a proper music player, I did a bit of Googling and everyone is talking about XMPlay, a free, light weight music player for Windows.
I download XMPlay, it’s absolutely tiny (300kb), it just works straight out of the box, is very configurable but simple also. It understands all the formats you’d expect and more and you can make it look different by downloading different skins.
So, XMPlay is my new favourite thing, get XMPlay Music Player for Windows, it’s such a simple alternative to Media Player that’s far far better.
It’s my Birthday today, it was pretty good! Mum and Dad got me a Chocolate Dalek Birthday Cake from Tesco!
I got on the bus into town early to buy doughnuts and cookies for the office and they’d changed the route so I ended up in Ifield and ended up ringing a taxi. But I got it all and got to work on time.
I worked on the new City Link website again today, it’s coming along nicely. More on that when it goes live.
Myself, DJ and Scott went to see Terminator: Salvation, I’ve been waiting to see the human Resistance battle Skynet in the future for about… 18 years.
I thought the new Terminators such as the Mototerminators, Harvesters and the T600, were in-keeping with the classic Terminator design and the Hunter Killer.
It was also really great to see the Terminator Hover Scout, which is a concept from the T2 3-D: Battle Across Time at Universal Studios.
I’ve just found this Star Wars spoof video on YouTube, Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars). It’s a mash-up of Star Wars and the cockney-gangster movie Snatch.
I’m a huge fan of the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch so I’m thinking this could be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on YouTube!
Casting Brick Top’s dialogue from Snatch over Darth Vader’s scenes from the original Star Wars Trilogy is pure genius.
However, when Darth Vader seemingly threatens to snap Leia’s “tarty-fuckin-legs off”, that audio was not taken from Snatch, but from Alan Ford’s performance on The Armando Ianucci Show. In that scene Alan Ford arrives at a woman’s home demanding to know whether she has read her copy of the Guardian Newspaper. He then threatens to send round “nutters, from Parkhurst”, (a top-security British prison) unless she fully digests every article. A great sample, expertly used.
Anyway, what do you think of Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars)?
Anyway today I decided to throw in the towel and get a proper music player, I did a bit of Googling and everyone is talking about XMPlay, a free, light weight music player for Windows.
It’s my Birthday today, it was pretty good! Mum and Dad got me a Chocolate Dalek Birthday Cake from Tesco!
Myself, DJ and Scott went to see Terminator: Salvation, I’ve been waiting to see the human Resistance battle Skynet in the future for about… 18 years. 