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Nobody could accuse me of being posh, and compared to most of the developers I work with here at Microsoft I'm probably not the brightest button in the box. But I did study mathematics in the past, including matrix theory. I just never got to pronounce it right.
It all came rushing back to me as I was watching a presentation about using singular value decomposition (SVD) to identify textual semantic spaces in a Big Data solution. I guess with a title like that I should have known better, but it did sound interesting. And would probably be really useful if I could understand any of it. Mind you, it was the end of a particularly stressful day and I was trying to get some other jobs finished at the same time it was playing on the second screen. Maybe an early start straight after a couple of cups of strong coffee will help next time.
But what struck me was that I remember everyone at school and college pronounced "matrix" with an "a" sound like in "apple", not an "ay" sound like in "say". Perhaps that's where being a rough English Northerner rather than a posh Home Counties softie comes into play. We say "grass" with the same "a as in apple" sound rather than "grahhss".
And even when the movie "The Matrix" came out and everyone called it "The May-tricks", I never thought about the different pronunciation. I suppose because, in my day job, you don't come across many matrices. Though I will accept that if you pronounce the plural as "may-tress-ease" rather than "mat-ress-ease" you're less likely to get confused when visiting a bed shop.
Though it did remind me of the story about an Englishman and an American who were trying to set up a meeting at a mutually convenient time:
Englishman: "You don't pronounce it like that! The proper way is 'shed-yool'" American: "Really? Is that what they taught you at sshool..."
Sometimes I think I'm the only person who takes Wi-Fi security seriously. Unlike all of my neighbors, I run my Wi-Fi access point with a hidden SSID so that nobody casually browsing the available networks will be tempted to try and connect to it. I also run it on half power, which is plenty sufficient to reach all round the house and garden without exposing it all along the street.
Of course, I also have it set to use WPA2-PSK, and it has a long and complex non-dictionary password. On top of that I enabled MAC authentication so that only known devices can connect. Yes, I know that most of these features can be cracked by determined attackers but all the good books say that defence in depth is the best approach, and the more layers of protection I have enabled the less the risk.
Should I actually worry about anybody connecting to my internal network through Wi-Fi? There's several other computers and devices on the internal network, although they are all secured with user names and passwords different from the wireless router credentials, and all sensitive folders and shares are locked down to the network admin account. But I really don't fancy having somebody I don't know wandering around my network.
Plus, anyone who did connect could get out onto the Internet through my proxy server, absorbing my bandwidth and exposing me to the risk of action if they do anything illegal over my connection. And I have to pay for my bandwidth, so why should I let other people soak it up browsing Facebook, playing games, and viewing doubtful content.
So it seems like my security approach is sensible. Unfortunately, Google doesn't agree. I recently bought my wife a Google Nexus 7 tablet so that she can soak up my expensive bandwidth browsing Facebook, playing games, and viewing pictures of cats. All the reviews I read said it's really easy to set up - you just choose your locale and your network connection, enter your Google account details, and (as we say over here, though I don't know why) "Bob's your uncle."
Yeah, you reckon? At step two you have to choose an existing wireless network and connect to it, or select "Add a network" if you use a hidden SSID. That's fine, but if I don't enter the MAC code of the device into the wireless router's configuration I can't connect. At this point the screen just says "Not in range" and you can't do anything about it.
Usually, when setting up any other computer, I skip the network setup and then go into the device information page to find the MAC address (that's what I had to do with our HTC Android phones). But Android on a tablet is obviously paranoid about not being able to talk to its Do No Evil home because there's no option to set up a network later. I guess they think that nobody would ever dream of using a tablet (where you can read books, watch videos, and listen to music) if there's no Internet connection.
And just to make matters worse, when you set up a new connection and don't get it exactly correct (such as the wrong letter case in the SSID, or an incorrect password) you can't edit it. The only options are "Connect" and "Forget It" - you have to remove the connection and then start all over again. And the dialog quite happily closes without saving the settings or warning you they'll be lost if your finger wavers a little on the onscreen keyboard.
So the only remedy to finish the setup seemed to be to go into the router's configuration and turn off MAC authentication while the tablet connected. Then, after setup is complete, find the MAC address in the tablet's system information pages, add it to the list in the router, and then turn MAC authentication back on. Assuming, of course, that turning off MAC authentication didn't lose the list of existing permitted addresses (I suggest you take a screenshot or copy them into Notepad first).
However thankfully, after three attempts when I finally got everything right in the tablet's connection dialog, my wireless router configuration page (after I turned MAC authentication off) detected that some unknown device was trying to connect and displayed the MAC address for me to add to the permitted clients list. After that I could turn MAC authentication back on and it worked. So completing the tablet's three page setup wizard only took the best part of an hour. Including swearing time.
It was only then that I discovered why I had so much trouble with the connection settings dialog - the tablet was suffering from the "phanton keystrokes" issue several other people have encountered (search the web for "nexus 7 phantom typing" for more details). So the next day it was back to the store to swap it for another one. From a different batch. And go through all the MAC authentication thing again because the MAC address is different.
And now I just need to figure out how to get it to talk to my wife's Exchange Server email account - which is exposed as a service over HTTP by our remote email hosting provider. And convert all the music she indoors wants putting onto it from WMV to MP3 format. Perhaps I'll need to take a holiday and stock up on new swear words before then...
So here's a question: why aren't our European masters hounding a certain well-known company to stop them installing unwanted software on our computers? Every time a hole in the Flash plugin is fixed they insist on fiddling with people's computers in a way that, if not actually illegal, seems to cause some users no end of hassle. If Microsoft included an update in every patch Tuesday that changes the user's default web browser to Internet Explorer, I'm sure there would be a huge outcry.
I mean, here in the People's Republic of Europe our faceless and unaccountable despots insist that I put my company's registration number in every email message I send, apply for a license before I can save somebody's email address in a database, and I even have to ask visitors to my website if they mind me sending them a cookie. Yet they do nothing about a company that tricks people into installing browser toolbars, and even whole web browsers.
Yes, it's a rant, and mainly because - yet again - I've had calls from friends and colleagues who have discovered that their computer has "gone funny". One even thought it was a virus, and is now too frightened to use the computer at all. And one call was from a relative whose computer I "fixed" just last month by resetting Internet Explorer as the default browser after the previous Flash player update.
I know you can argue that there's a checkbox you can un-tick if you don't want your system interfered with, but most inexperienced users won't dare do that in case they "break the computer" - as an industry we regularly impress on users that they should not fiddle with settings unless they know what they are doing.
And, yes, you could argue that the option is clearly shown with a description of what it does. But why is it set by default? If I want a new web browser, then surely I should have to say yes - rather than forgetting (or being too frightened of breaking something) to say no. If your local supermarket required you to tell them every time you didn't want some extra items automatically added to your shopping basket, you'd soon be writing to the local newspaper to complain. So at least try and persuade me to tick "yes" by telling me how wonderful the new browser is, rather than hoping I won't notice you decided "yes" was the default.
But I suppose that, if you want to win the browser wars, maybe one way is to pay some other company to surreptitiously install it on everyone's computer as part of a routine update...
You'd think that, after all the years I've been writing guidance for Microsoft technologies and tools, I'd have at least grasped how to organize the structure of a guide ready to start pouring content into it. But, just as we're getting into our stride on the Windows Azure HDInsight project here at p&p, it turns out that Big Data = big problem.
Let me explain. When I worked on the Enterprise Library projects, it was easy to find the basic structure for the guides. The main subdivision is around the individual application blocks, and for each one it seems obvious that all you need to do is break it down into the typical scenarios, the solutions for each one, the practical implementation details, and a guide to good practices.
In the more recent guide for migrating existing applications to Windows Azure (see Moving Applications to the Cloud) we identified the typical stages for moving each part of the application to the cloud (virtual machines, hosted services, cloud database, federated authentication, Windows Azure storage, etc.) and built an example for each stage. So the obvious subdivision for the guide was these migration stages. Again, for each one, we document the typical scenarios, the solutions for each one, the practical implementation details, and a guide to good practices.
In the cases of our other Windows Azure cloud guides (Developing Multi-tenant Applications and Building Hybrid Applications) we designed and built a full reference implementation (RI) sample that showcases the technologies and services we want to cover. So it made sense to subdivide the guides around the separate elements of the technologies we are demonstrating - the user interface, the data model, the security mechanism, the communication patterns, deployment and administration, etc.
But none of these approaches seems to work for Big Data and HDInsight. At first I thought I'd just lost the knack of seeing an obvious structure appear as I investigate the technology. I couldn't figure out why there seemed to be no instantly recognizable subdivisions on which to build the chapter and content structure. And, of course, I wasn't alone in struggling to see where to go. The developers on the team were suddenly faced with a situation where they couldn't provide the usual type of samples or RI (or, to use the awful marketing terminology, "an F5 experience").
The guidance structure problem, once we finally recognized it, arises because Big Data is one of those topics that - unlike designing and building an application - doesn't have an underlying linear form. Yes, there is a lifecycle - though I hesitate to use the term "ALM" because what most Big Data users do, and what we want to document, is not actually building an application. It's more about getting the most from a humungous mass of tools, frameworks, scenarios, use cases, practices, and techniques. Not to mention politics, and maybe even superstition.
So do we subdivide the guide based on the ethereal lifecycle stages? After collecting feedback from experts and advisors it looks as though nobody can actually agree what these stages are, or what order you would do them in even if you did know what they are. The only thing they seem to agree on is that there really isn't anything concrete you can put into a "boxes-and-arrows" Visio diagram.
What about subdividing the guide on the individual parts of the overall technology? Perhaps a chapter on Hive, one on custom Map/Reduce component theory and design, one on configuring the cluster and measuring performance, and one on visualizing the results. But then we could easily end up with an implementation guide and documentation of the features, rather than a guide that helps you to understand the technology and make the right choices for your own scenario.
Another approach might be to subdivide the guide across the actual use cases for Big Data solutions. We spent quite some time trying to identify all of these and then categorize them into groups, but by the time we'd got past fifteen (and more were still appearing) it seemed like the wrong approach as well. Perhaps what's really big about Big Data is the amount of paper you need to keep scrawling a variety of topic trees and ever-changing content lists.
What becomes increasingly clear is that you need to keep coming back to thinking about what the readers actually want to know, and how best you can present this as a series of topics that flow naturally and build on each other. In most previous guides we could take some obvious subdivision of content and use it to define the separate chapters, then define a series of flowing topics within each chapter. But with the whole dollop of stuff that is Big Data, the "establishing a topic flow" thing needs to be done at the top level rather than at individual chapter level. Once we figured that, all the other sections fell naturally into place in the appropriate chapters.
So where did we actually end up after all this mental gyration? At the moment we're going with a progression of topics based on "What is it and what does it do", "Where and why would I use it?" "What decisions must I make first?", "OK, so basically how do I do this?" and "So now I know how to use it, how does it fit in with my business?" Then we'll have four or five chapters that walk through implementing different scenarios for Big Data such as simple querying and reporting, sentiment analysis, trend prediction, and handling streaming data. Plus some Hands-on Labs and maybe a couple of appendices describing the tools and the Map/Reduce patterns.
Though that's only today's plan...
So it's true. Senility had obviously settled in and my addled brain can no longer maintain even the simplest items of information such as a two-fingered keyboard combination. It seems that in future I'll be wandering aimlessly around my server room dribbling helplessly onto the network switches, muttering profanities in response to the strange symbols appearing on the monitors, and talking into the mouse.
What's brought me to this late stage of realization? Could it be because my habitual dabs at AltGr (the right-hand Alt key) and Delete no longer bring up the login page in my Hyper-V hosted machines? For some weeks I've been confounded by the fact my ailing brain seemed to remember that this always worked before, but now it doesn't. Even poking around in Hyper-V Manager and the properties of the VMs didn't reveal anything useful.
In fact, things got so bad that I actually had to look up the Hyper-V key combinations on TechNet after I got fed up restoring down the VM's window and clicking the Ctrl-Alt-Delete icon in the top menu bar. It seems that what you need is Ctrl-Alt-End, but how could I have forgotten that when most days I'm administering the servers?
However, after some Binging it turns out that I might have a few more months before I finally turn into a doddering and disoriented wreck. According to the Virtual PC and Virtual Server help pages, the equivalent of Ctrl-Alt-Delete in a virtual machine is HOSTKEY and Delete. Of course, it took ages more to find out that the default HOSTKEY is AltGr (you can change it), which was obviously maintained in Hyper-V. Probably so that the world's systems admins wouldn't all decide to retire in the same week.
As far as I can tell, some recent update must have removed this backwards compatibility - though I can't find any mention of it on the web. Maybe it's just me...? Did I break something...?


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Ep 21!
I personally found it disturbing. Omg, it was obvious what they were hinting at when the tentacle guys attacked... if you don't know, you're better off and don't bother figure it out. But, there were two other things that bothered me about them:
1. Why were they monsters? They're scientists, come on, why be a monster when you can be human? For the looks? Or because being a blob with tentacles is so convenient? And I don't think they're actually monsters and from Cardinal's processor, they must be smart enough to research and you'd need to be human for that. I also think that Yui is an exception; plus it is mentioned that ALO's cardinal version is older than SAO's and therefore not as good, but still pretty darn good.
2. Why were pain receptors on? Which idiot would leave the option for pain on if you didn't need to? It is default set to no pain, Klein didn't have any in ep 1, and he didn't even know about that feature. So convenient. But I suppose Asuna had to be able to do something.
And I feel sorry for the cousin/sister (im confused as to what she is: cousin, sister or family friend?) but seriously, its a bit messed up. I think. Poor girl though. I genuinely feel sorry for her, even if she is a cartoon character.
Eps until now are unravelling... the quality of episodes sucks now really. SAO went downhill... how come he just was like 'Oh its ok sugu we can be friends again and when asuna comes back i might fall for you' he might as well have said that...
well, i might add some more later, but i seriously hope more people actually talk here. its such an awesome series.
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Ever since my 2-1/2-year-old son pointed to a picture of my mother and said, "Mommie," I have been aware that I have fallen into the inevitable and have become my mother. I was not one of those teenagers who vowed never to be like my mother. My mother treated me with respect and allowed me to be my own individual. But now, as I... Read more →


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Most of us assume it's because someone, somewhere sat down with the scientific evidence, and figured out that cannabis is more harmful than other drugs we use all the time -- like alcohol and cigarettes. Not at all.
Can Bernie's promises be paid for? We would have to reverse a trend of lower taxes begun in the 1970s. That means bringing out new voters -- mostly young--that have been sitting on the sidelines until now.
If passed, the TPP would lock in policies that not only allow price gouging, but essentially require all TPP-signatory governments to provide monopoly rights allowing drug companies to charge whatever they want.
There is more at stake here than the future of one author or one picture book. Most pressing is the question of whether we can ever reach a place in our society where questions of race can be openly and objectively discussed, especially with our children.
Wage insurance would supplement, not replace, traditional UI, which provides bedrock financial support to help tide workers over a spell of unemployment. But UI needs strengthening and modernizing.
The reality is that King himself supported democratic socialism -- and that civil rights activists and socialists have walked arm-in-arm for more than a century. The same news outlets that omit such facts keep telling us that the mass of African-American voters in South Carolina and elsewhere are diehard devotees of Hillary (and Bill) Clinton.
Instead of the wishful thinking of Secretary Kerry, who seems unable to talk about Egypt without referring to an illusory "transition to democracy," Sewall noted the economic, security, and political challenges facing Egypt in her Cairo visit.
These words generated a largely positive reaction inside the mosque, but one can't help but wonder what policy implications, if any, the speech will have outside.
I'm dying to know how many of you are seriously going to move to Canada when someone you don't like becomes our next president. Are you really moving to Canada?
With grassroots power and market forces on our side, the US will remain on track to meet our Paris commitments in the electric sector.
The Obama budget could have reassured the American people that the monies they contribute to Social Security are properly handled, protected for their intended purpose of paying earned benefits and related administrative costs. Unfortunately, the just-released budget reinforces the opposite view.
It is still very early, and there will be twists and turns aplenty, but the election results so far have convinced me of one thing: Whoever wins the 2016 presidential election, we are going to see sweeping change in this country over the next several years.
It's 2016, and while England, Germany, Denmark, Chile, Argentina, India and even Pakistan have elected women heads of state, we still haven't even nominated a woman for our highest office. With Hillary Clinton, we have a female candidate who not only has a stronger resume than that of any of her rivals in either party, but who is firmly committed ensuring equal pay for women, and who has been uniquely outspoken on the impact that women have on the economy.
Donald Trump, who has been running for president since July, is a fictional character, and we really don't know what the real Donald Trump would do if he was elected president. As entertainment became his primary business, Trump started playing a character named Donald Trump, a bombastic real estate mogul who is a walking symbol of opulence and a modern, garish appropriation of the notion of class.
I haven't liked the pot shots Chris Matthews is taking at Bernie Sanders and the way he feigns ignorance to Bernie Sanders' political leanings. Not because I'm a Sanders supporter, but because Matthews is a journalist and what he's doing is unprofessional.
I love Scrabble and play it daily as a release from politics and law. As the race for Barack Obama's successor heats up, herewith three lessons from Scrabble for politics: knowledge, vision, and flexibility.
Gender, race, economic justice, transphobia and homophobia matter in the United States today, and Hillary Clinton's proud history of fighting for all of us give her knowledge, insights, and wisdom that others do not have.
Last night, New Hampshire shook up the presidential race and roiled what were already less-than-calm waters, in both the Democratic Party and the GOP. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton looks a lot weaker than she did a few weeks ago.
The Republican Party is roughly evenly divided. There are the Crazies (Trump, Cruz, Carson) and there is the Establishment (Bush, Kasich, Rubio, Christie). This is not a division between conservatives and moderates; there's no ideological difference between the candidates; it's all about anger.


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Obviously I know about Hyatt's amazingly generous points upgrade policy. I wrote about it just over a week ago. And yet I realized I don't put my own advice into full practice. Because using points to confirm suites at booking on paid stays is just such an amazing value with Gold Passport.
I just used my last Gold Passport Diamond Confirmed Suite Upgrade from 2012. Hyatt's top tier elites receive (4) confirmed at booking suite upgrades each year, valid for up to seven nights (on a single stay) each.
I've requalified or 2013 status, but my new suite upgrade certificates won't be available in my account for another seven weeks or so. And I was ready to make a booking at a hotel in Asia where I wanted a suite. I was going to wait for those upgrades to post and of course hope that suites were still available to confirm at the property at that time.
And then it occurred to me: I had just posted about how great a value suites with points are though Gold Passport so I might as well use points. So I did. But in the process I started wondering, since suites are so darned cheap through Gold Passport, why am I ever staying in a regular room (on stays longer than say a night, at properties where suites aren't fully booked up at the time I'm making the reservation)?
- Bedroom in Suite at Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
Bathroom in Suite at Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
Even though I only just wrote about Hyatt's suite redemptions, the discussion was buried at the bottom of a larger post, and since I hadn't even internalized it fully myself I thought it warranted being pulled out into a separate discussion.
And although Hyatt also has the most generous policy for redeeming points for free nights in suites (it's 50% more points than a standard room, compared to double points at Starwood), the point of this post is about upgrading paid stays.
How to Upgrade to Suites with Hyatt Gold Passport Points
You have to pay the 'Hyatt Daily Rate' rather than a discounted rate to be eligible to upgrade. And at resorts you have to pay for a deluxe (eg partial ocean view) room as well.
But the following points prices will upgrade you for up to four nights. These are not upgrade prices per night.
As I wrote a week or so back, while a hotel like the Westin Tokyo will cost an extra 20,000 Starpoints per night for a suite, confirmed only five nights in advance, Hyatt Gold Passport will let you confirm an upgrade at the much nicer Park Hyatt Tokyo for just 6000 points. Total. For four nights. At time of booking. Crazy.
The category 6 Westin Times Square would cost 80,000 Starpoints to upgrade for four nights. The Andaz 5th Avenue costs 6,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points for those four nights. And the Andaz upgrade is confirmable at time of reservation. And I generally consider Starwood to offer the second best program for upgraeds.
- Living room of suite at the Andaz 5th Avenue
Shower of suite at the Andaz 5th Avenue
You cannot book suite upgrades online, it has to be done through Hyatt's customer service center.
When Is This Worthwhile?
It's true, I can't always do this and it doesn't make sense to always do this.
- It's probably not worth 6000 points on a one night stay (although it might be).
- It's almost certainly not worth 6000 points on a one night stay where I'm traveling alone.
- Suites at some properties are only incrementally more expensive than regular rooms, I've been to some hotels in the U.S. where a suite is about $50 higher so on a one-night stay paying is better than spending points (and for two nights I'd consider it a wash).
- Suites may well be booked up and thus not confirmable when you're making a reservation.
But for a good number of my stays I really don't need to horde those Diamond confirmed suite upgrades. I'll save those for when I'm staying on a more deeply discounted rate than points upgrades can be used on. And when staying at the Hyatt Daily Rate I'll use points.
- Living room of suite at the Grand Hyatt Singapore
How to Get Points for Suites
An elite member of Hyatt Gold Passport will earn points quickly enough — with the 1000 point per stay checkin amenity (I pretty much always choose the points, and unlike Starwood Preferred Guest don't have to give up the points to be eligible for breakfast), with points for stays, and with bonuses — in order to secure suites quite regularly.
But these awards are open to anyone, not just elites.
And the best way to earn Hyatt points isn't actually the Hyatt Visa (for the most part), but actually the Chase Sapphire Preferred card which earns double points on all travel and dining spend, and earns points through the Ultimate Rewards shopping portal for online purchases you'll make anyway.
Sapphire Preferred has a 40,000 point singup bonus after $3000 spend within 3 months. So that's quite a few nights in suites.
Similarly, the Chase Ink Bold and Ink Plus small business cards offer double points on hotel spend (and quintuple points on telecommunications and office supplies) and also has a 50,000 point signup bonus after $5000 spend within 3 months.
As regular readers know I do receive referral credit for most of the credit cards I link to, including these. Of course, they're also the best available offers for the cards — and the best way to earn large numbers of very flexible points quickly.


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very nice pic, kinda like a Rosie the riveter
I point my projector at the large white wall in my apartment.
That's a really adorable gangsta look.
amazing work. lovely absolutely beautiful. thank you for sharing.
Paint the wall orange, because orange is awesome.
You look like a gangsta lol love this tho
so pretty
White walls are great for pictures. Put some cool pictures up! Lovin the retro vibe!
Give up and stick to high key
get really good with the selection tools in photoshop
a backdrop system or some old sheets you can dye
get really good with the selection tools in photoshop
a backdrop system or some old sheets you can dye
Yeah, I say take a drawing of yours you love, and blow it up or paint it on the wall
Love it!
Now let's scribble and paint on your wall
Now let's scribble and paint on your wall
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Nights Like These - The Faithless
My music taste has evolved and changed over the years. I boast this because I am proud to say that I have been opened up to so much different music as time has quickly passed. I remember when I first really started focusing on hardcore and metal. I would go to my local Record And Tape Traders (East Coast Represent!) and chit chat about what albums I should picked up. Needless to say in the genre of metal, I had a wonderful mentor. Some of my earliest albums were Premonitions Of War, Botch, Converge, and last but not least Cave In. I remember quite vividly playing these albums as loud as I could in my car. Im sure I got a few stares, but the chills and my emotions ran wild as the guitars clashed and the raw and tough vocals came blaring through my speakers, which by the way had a nice fucking kick to it. I remember torturing my little brother and cousin on our drives to school blaring Cave Ins Bottom Feeder with the windows all the way down. Nothing like a good wake up call. Nothing in this world is more intense and fun than a hardcore and metal show. Watching kids take out their energy and really feel the music, is a sentiment indescribable. Are you worried about the metal that has leaked into the mainstream not being intense enough? Have no fear, Victory Records brings you Nights Like These with their killer release The Faithless.
From the home of rock n roll, Nights Like These emerge from Tennessee like a bat out of hell with one mission - to shred those ears right off of your face. I get the feeling nowadays that people are passing on anything Victory throws your way. Trust me, Tony (despite what you want to believe or what you insist) knows how to pick up a solid metal band; hell, he has quite a few of them. Nights Like These bring the brutality of Converge and throw in tons of intense crunchy breakdowns that will make your heart pound. This is a band that clearly holds nothing in, they spill it all out. Right from the get go the CD opens with a powerful song titled, Storming Valhala. Judging from this track you can see that these guys are avid fans of The Red Chord. The vocals have very strong similarities but very strong differences at the same time. One of my favorite tracks, Ghost Town Rituals, is a perfect display of their influences and the hometown they represent. I am in love with that southern metal sound, and this song is one of the stand outs on the album. If you want to be sold on this disc, this song is one of the selling points of the disc.
Let The Waters Overtake Us has one of the grittiest breaks I have ever head. The blast beat drumming is a sure hit with anyone that is a true fan of their metal percussion. This is arguably one of the best heavier tracks that I have heard in the last few months. One thing I am really fond of with Nights Like These is that there are almost no clean vocals. That means just one thing: The Faithless is an incredibly brutal album. Dont get me wrong, I dont mind vocals like that, but there is no place for them on this album and that is a good thing. The thing that stands out the most with Nights Like These is their percussion. I think a lot of metal bands out there nowadays really fall short with highlighting the importance of heavy percussion. Are you in an up and coming band? You need to take tips from Patrick Leatherwood. This is one guy that knows how to beat the shit out of his kit and make it sound beautiful.
If you consider yourself a fan of good metal, I highly would recommend you check these guys out. Its tough, its raw, its gritty and its good metal. It is orchestrated that perfectly displays what good musicianship is all about. I insist, have faith in The Faithless.
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awesome review... the groove of this album is absolutely sick. see these guys live if you can, it's a wall of brutal.
seabass is the bassist, not the drummer
just FYI
You are correct, I read the bio wrong.
This is a pretty good album. Slipped somewhat from when I first checked it out.
My full opinion: http://punknews.org/review/5456
good job dude
this cd is crushing
question for interview
Even though this might not seem serious at face value, my question is:
Who was Nights Like These thinking of when they named their song/album "The Faithless"?
Old NLT was sooooooo much better, Victory changed them so much, they used to be more grind influenced, and now they're just another Metal/Hardcore band. In my personal opinion, I think you were a bit generous on this review, but that's just because I loved old NLT a lot more. Good review nevertheless.
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What could've happened if they met at the festival.
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This is what should have happened! Damnit Nagisa with your splitting them up ploys XD (although secret agent Rei stalking him around the festival was hilarious XD). All the feels from this episode TT-TT the next one had better be a little more Rin/Haru because the Mako/Haru was crazy in the last episode. They're practically an old married couple XD which kinda sucks because damnit why is Rin/Haru not canon yet?! *flail*
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Michelle Malkin's book begins with the essential task of trying to re-create for today's generation of Americans the circumstances and dangers faced by the United States in early 1942, when the relocation of Japanese Americans began.
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Austin has been swaddled ever since the NICU. Its the only way he sleeps soundly. When should I stop swaddling him??
When to stop swaddling my baby?
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I've heard two different things.
When baby starts to roll, he'll need his hands free to help him stay safe. That I've heard pretty consistently.
I've also heard weaning them from the swaddle at around three months (so three months adjusted for our babies) since developementally their sleep cycle starts changing by four months. And or the startle reflex goes? It's fuzzy but I'm hoping someone knows the details.
James decided on his own he was done with the swaddle and started escaping it, A LOT. For us it was as simple as letting him fall asleep without it one night. There's a way to wean them, starting by leaving just an arm free. When baby can sleep with one arm free, you can release the other and transition to sleep sacks.
I hope that helps!
That's a tough thing to answer precisely. I had the same question when Erin was about 2-3 months old, because she kept wiggling her way out of it and waking herself up. My research and questions resulted in the answer of "whenever she's ready for it". If he's still sleeping soundly and not fighting the swaddle, I'd say just keep swaddling. We had to stop when Erin was 4 mos because she wound up in the hospital w/RSV and she had IVs in her foot.
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I stopped swaddling my baby at about 5 weeks (he spent 3 weeks in the NICU). He would fuss and cry and struggle with the swaddle until his arms were out and then would fall asleep fine. He's always liked his arms above his head. He's 18 weeks now (12+3 adjusted) and will still pull his arms out of a blanket if I cover him, so he wears long sleeves at night.
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thanks guys :] he loooves to suck on his hand so he always tries to break free. i thought that would just keep him awake...but i put him in for a nap like 1 1/2 hours ago not swaddled....i didnt hear anything on the monitor after like 5 minutes so i went in to check on him and he was actually sleeping! lol shocked me. hes 3 months corrected...so maybe ill just start doin it for nap times and then try for bed?
I could never swaddle, especially as well as the NICU nurses lol - so he would be Houndini and get out of my, and I use the term loosely...swaddles. I even youTube'd how to do it lol. Finally I just go the velcro SwaddleMe and Swaddle Pods...he HATES it! and the Swaddle Pod zippers so it is not super tight (hard to find a preemiee sized) so he LITERALLY looks like he is trying to escape a straight jacket. Although it is kinda cute...he looks miserable and can actually get a hand up and out. :/ So no swaddling here, which might be the reason I can't get him to sleep anywhere but on my chest...hmm...
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We swaddle DD for pretty much forever! she loved it and could never roll over anyway since she was wrapped so tight. she is just about 18 months and if she ever has a screaming fit, if I wrap her in a blanket and hold her tight, she still calms right down! You'll see what works for you. Good luck.
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My ped told me that around 4-5 mos (roughly 3 mos adjusted) we would want to make sure she could stretch her legs. However, keeping her arms close still makes her feel secure. So at this point we do a modified swaddle with her blankie wrapped around her so she can touch her hands together (which soothes her)... but not coming up tightly over legs and hips. I believe the concern is that swaddling too tightly over the legs and hips can lead to hip dysplasia: http://www.hipdysplasia.org/Developmental-Dysplasia-Of-The-Hip/Hip-Healthy-Swaddling/Default.aspx
But as some moms noted... babies differ. My son fought his swaddle from the time we brought him home from the hospital. He didn't mind being in a sling... just hated being swaddled. Even though it did calm him, he'd eventually wiggle out of it. At the time (< 3mos age) I bought some Miracle Blanket swaddlers... which reminded me more of some sort of infant straight jacket swaddle... but, while they worked I now question if such a thing was so good for his bones. Thankfully we had no issues from using them, but I hesitate to recommend using them now.
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My son would loved to be swaddled when he slept he is almost 9 months now and I just recently stopped swaddling him a few weeks ago and that's because he let me know he didn't want it anymore.
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Evelynn HATED to be swaddled even while in NICU, anything touching her feet and legs she would start kicking to get them off, maybe that is why she wanted to come so early.
I have been told two different things, when they are able to roll over by themselves and 3 months old so adjusted age for us.
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Austin has always loved being swaddled...i just know of a couple people that are having sucha hard time getting their baby to sleep with out it. Kinda like a binky lol. (which Austin hates by the way) I figure ill keep trying at nap times every day and once he can go the whole day with out it ill try for night time. :]


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I am often burdened with the task to set up a network prior to my being able to acces the PSN on PS3. Does anyone know of a way to get the PS3 to recognise a USB wireless modem plugged into its USB port?
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I am often burdened with the task to set up a network prior to my being able to acces the PSN on PS3. Does anyone know of a way to get the PS3 to recognise a USB wireless modem plugged into its USB port?
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Probably a way through Linux but that not much help if you want to play games... Though who knows, that just my 2 cents.
Yeah, I own a Vodafone K3565-Z USB modem. It installs automatically on PC because the PC recognises the drivers and software and there you go. I had YDL on my PS3 before, but took it off as it seemed like high maintenance, but as you rightly said, there is little point in enabling it on another OS and then not be able to access PSN.
It seems to be something that has to be enabled from Sony's side, but as I have seen and read before, it takes a while for Sony to produce what consumers want. Hence posting this question to the clever guys on these forums who might have experimented with the same.
Something is wrong with your ps3s wireless?
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Wouldn't you need PS3 specific drivers for the wireless card either way?
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