Aug 20 2009
I have been a long term fan of Stiff Little Fingers for many years, but somehow I have never got round to seeing them live.
Well I have just got a ticket to see them at The Waterfront in Norwich on Monday 26 October 2009.
Has anybody seen them recently and are they and good after all these years?
Jul 24 2009
Red5 Analytics Demo is a web based application I have built using PHP as the Server back-end and a browser based front-end using the excellent Ext JS Javascript Framework.
The application demonstrates the use of several useful technologies:
The demo can be viewed at Red5 Analytics Demo.
The demo by default uses the Google Analytics Data from this site however you can change it to view the data from any analytics account using the settings dialog:
Just enter the account details and select one of the accounts from the accounts drop down and the data will be fetched for that account.
The account details are stored in a cookie and the password is encrypted and never passed in plain text.
Please see the full article at www.nbred5.com Ext JS – Red5 Analytics Demo from the menu.
Jul 02 2008
On Saturday 28th June my wife, daughter and I went to see Mamma Mia at the Prince of Wales theatre in London’s West End.
For those who don’t know this is the musical based around the hits of Abba, that tells the story of a young girls wedding on a small Greek island to which she invites 3 of her mother’s past lovers each of who could be her farther.
The Abba songs are very cleverly incoporated into the story, in some cases a bit cheesily. There are also some very funny moments.
The whole product was quite superb and I can recommend that anybody who gets a chance to see this does so, you don’t have to be a die hard fan of Abba, it’s jsut very enjoyable.
Jul 02 2008
I travelled by train and foot passenger to the site and had no problems in either getting there or getting away Monday morning. (just one word of advice, buy your bus tickect early, I did and it saved queuing with a heavy rucksack, I just got staright on a bus).
I have only really one quite small gripe and that is that I did not arrive till about 4:00pm on Friday and by this time finding a place to pitch the tent was somewhat difficult, I know I was a bit late but that couldn’t be helped but wehat was annoying was that there did not seem to be any information availiable as to where there was any space left or if any space had been held back for latecomers. I paid the same price so why should I not get a space to put up the tent.
For next time, could we have an alternative to the lager/cider I am a real ale fan and had to pop into Newport on Saturday to get a decent pint.
As far as line up go I would say just keep it a diverse as possible, some old stuff and some new stuff and mix it up through the weekend. Definately keep the Big Top, but as many other have said keep it away from other load music. This also applies to the Platform One stage, where I saw some excellent performances that were somewhat competing with the noise form the varoius fairground rides with their thumping music.