Thirty years ago, New Order released Blue Monday and revolutionised music. Enjoy!
This is Blue Monday
Thirty years ago, New Order released Blue Monday and revolutionised music. Enjoy!
Thirty years ago, New Order released Blue Monday and revolutionised music. Enjoy!
Another Earth
Watched Another Earth on CanalSat today with Christina and the kids and we were all amazed by the quality and the beauty of this movie!
It’s about a tragic accident, seeking forgiveness, love and another planet earth.
The script is written by Brit Marling, the main actress, and she also is the producer of the movie. For someone who is only 30, this is an epic achievement as both her writing and acting are wonderful.
I give Another Earth a very deserving 9/10. Watch it with an open mind and I’m sure you’ll love it.
Open source DJing with Mixxx
On 31 December, my mission was to make people dance from 22:00 to 03:00 in the morning. Fortunately, I could rely on Mixxx, a fantastic and powerful DJing software available for free for all platforms (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).
Mixxx performed admirably during the five hours.
On Linux, Mixxx supports MP3 out of the box but as I had quite a lot of AAC (i.e. M4A) files, I had to compile it from source. Here are the commands I used on my Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS box:
sudo aptitude install scons qt3-dev-tools libqt4-dev g++ bzr libportmidi-dev libsndfile1-dev libtag1-dev libmad0-dev libid3tag0-dev libmp4v2-dev libfaad-dev portaudio19-dev
scons -j2 faad=1 shoutcast=0 tuned=1
sudo scons prefix=/usr/local install
The first line is to install all the required dependencies, the second is to compile Mixxx with AAC support (faad=1) and specifically for the processor I was using (tuned=1). The third line is to install it in /usr/local
Have fun DJing with Mixxx :-)