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Mohammed Rafi

Oct 27 2006

One of my all time favou­ri­tes, “Jaan Pechechaan Ho” by Mohd. Rafi. Dis­co­ve­red through Zwi­goff and Daniel Clo­wes’ “Ghost World”, I pre­sent to you now the full Gum­naam ren­di­tion from 1966 — this great 60s Bolly­wood rock and roll number:

My search for more songs of the same sen­si­bi­lity has retur­ned few results so I am open to any recom­men­da­tions of this sort.

Lulu Jackson

Oct 27 2006

This track is the first of two parts, entit­led “You’re going to leave the old home Jim”. I dis­co­ve­red this track on the album “Before the Blues, vol. 2″ under the Yazoo label. 

I have since seen it on “Female Country Blues Vol.1″ with 7 other magi­cal tracks. Howe­ver this still remains my favou­rite, it has a sublime quaint­ness and that power­ful fee­ling of nos­tal­gic melancholy. This song was crea­ted bet­ween 1924 and 1928 and is clas­si­fied in the pre-war blues genre.

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Gogol Bordello — Start Wearing Purple

Oct 26 2006

From the sound­track to Everything is Illu­mi­na­ted and desc­ri­bed on the last​.fm wiki:

[As an artist that com­bi­nes] ele­ments of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian caba­ret, Gogol Bor­de­llo tells the story of New York’s immi­grant dias­pora through debauchery, humor, and surreal cos­tu­mes. Lea­der and sin­ger Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birth­day Party and Einstür­zende Neu­bau­ten in his native Ukraine.

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Borat

Oct 25 2006


Borat: Cul­tu­ral Lear­nings of Ame­rica for Make Bene­fit Glo­rious Nation of Kazakhs­tan, out today, you must come see.

Firefox 2.0 — Fix tabs

Oct 24 2006

The new Fire­fox release is great, espe­cially the built in and seam­lessly inte­gra­ted spell chec­ker, this should dra­ma­ti­cally improve all those poorly spe­lled posts and web pages we see everywhere. The new glass theme and high­ligh­ting is an impro­ve­ment (in my opi­nion) and new built in Phishing tools are also a posi­tive deve­lop­ment. Other note­worthy fea­tu­res inc­lude ses­sion saver, and sug­ges­tions in the search box. To test this release with regards to the ill-fated memory leak I loa­ded up a page of 20 or so ani­ma­ted GIFs which pre­vious ver­sions would choke on and die a pain­ful death, the page still saw a large inc­rease in page-file usage and some slow down but after brow­sing away from the page it all disap­pea­red and I didn’t have to res­tart the browser. 

A cou­ple of things I don’t like, or maybe I am just not used to, are the chan­ges to tabs. The chan­ges give a fixed mini­mum width and a hori­zon­tal scro­lla­ble tool­bar when the num­ber of tabs exceed the screen width and also a “Close” icon on each tab. So I thought it would be help­ful to state here how to change the tabs back to “the old style” ( i.e. FF 1.x):

Remove Close But­ton
To remove the close but­ton from each tab and ins­tead place one but­ton in the top right, in the about:config file change browser.tabs.closeButtons to “3”
(For more details see: http://​kb​.mozi​lla​zine​.org/​B​r​o​w​s​e​r​.​t​a​b​s​.​c​l​o​s​e​B​u​t​t​ons ).

Fit More Tabs on the Page
To do this you have to reduce the mini­mum width of tabs. Once again, using the about:config file change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a value of your choice. The chan­ges will not be appa­rent until you res­tart Firefox.

For the com­plete run down visit: Mozi­lla­zine

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