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This article on the guardian has a hand little app on it that lets you see which songs from the list you have listened to and also links you them on spotify.
How many have you heard?
My selection of 24 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 141
- Windowsill (Arcade Fire, 2007)
- I Am the Walrus (The Beatles, 1967)
- White Riot (The Clash, 1977)
- Thou Shalt Always Kill (Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, 2007)
- 16 Military Wives (The Decemberists, 2005)
- Maggie’s Farm (Bob Dylan, 1965)
- When the Ship Comes In (Bob Dylan, 1964)
- Role Model (Eminem, 1999)
- American Idiot (Green Day, 2004)
- Material Girl (Madonna, 1985)
- Redemption Song (Bob Marley, 1980)
- Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell, 1970)
- Fuck tha Police (NWA, 1988)
- Monkey Gone to Heaven (Pixies, 1989)
- Bring the Noise (Public Enemy, 1987)
- Fight the Power (Public Enemy, 1989)
- Killing in the Name (Rage Against the Machine, 1992)
- Street Fighting Man (The Rolling Stones, 1968)
- God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols, 1977)
- Ghost Town (The Specials, 1981)
- BYOB (System Of A Down, 2005)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2, 1983)
- My Generation (The Who, 1965)
- Harrowdown Hill (Thom Yorke, 2006)
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So dissertation fever is gripping the course at the moment with some going into mental breakdown whilst others are lavishing in the information that all this research gives you. I for one have been a mixture of both, i have had my ups and downs but right now I am enjoying looking into how the internet is affecting people.
John Suler is a theorist whom at moment is filling my tiny brain with so much information that it is unbeliveable. I feel like a test subject of his.
Anyway here is a picture that defines one of his theories, for now:
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mmmm, how beautiful does this package look:
god i want this so bad. could this be the thing that makes that majority of everybody in the world want to buy a PS3 if they don’t have one.
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Tagged: box, killzone 2, ps3
Nerves have started to hit as i get my minor feedback next week. After what happenned during the presentation I am very nervous that this might mean i have to retake the year. This is not bothering me too much as i know i will be able to save up throughout the year with various jobs if i do have to defer.
However, i know i could not have done anything about it as i believe i presented reasonably and overall it was not my fault that the prototype was not visible due to a Flash Version Error.
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On starting to learn AS3, i hit it head on with so much or lack of enthusiasm if i am going to be honest. But after taking lessons from a colleague at uni, my appetitie to learn it has got bigger and bigger.
It is a completely different language to AS2, but the fact that it seems more powerful makes it a worthwhile time sucker as for future work it will benefit my greatly.
Currently I am trying to create a drawing tool in AS3 that will save the doodles that is done on a procrastination pad.
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I have been pulling over many titles for a while now, getting laods of research about cybercultures and CMC or Computer Mediated Conversation. But the problem is trying to narrow the title down so it is not so broad and leaves me with such a broad topic that it doesn’t seem like an essay on a specific subject.
At the moment, i am hovering around the title:
How has CMC allowed the evolution of connecting between two peers.
However i am not sure.
this is tough, final year is hurting.
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My idea for my major relies heavily on information about the Key Stage 2 level of education. To those not in the know, aka me and everyone who is not a parent, KS2 is the 11+, an exam that can determine what school you go to for your senior years, aka in preparation for your GCSE’s. Fab.
So far, i have sent off emails to schools in the Bournemouth area, in hope that they will be up for collaborating in this Major idea. This is so that i can get the full syllabus and also have it taught to me by a teacher, so in reality i will be going back to school. If it occurs I will be fully looking forward to it.
Websites:
BBC – Bitesize 
So far the best website that i have found is the BBC bitesize website. This does not surprise me as Bitesize has been around for a while now and is the most comprehensive learning tool on the web for helping out teachers and students in preparation for exams. From KS1 to A-level, bitesize covers it all. What I am trying to do is find away to differentiate my project from Bitesize.
How i plan to do this is to incorporate tests that actually recortd and analyse the childs progress and can point out where they have certain weakpoints and allow the parents and teachers where work needs to be done.
BOFA
What sounds like it should be the name of a flatulent superhero, is actually a good website and an indicator of what i am aiming for and hopefully going to surpass with my major. BOFA exports results of the tests but does not do what I aming to do which is to indicate the weaknesses and also be used by both teachers and students. This is aimed directly at home use, unlike my idea which can be fully integrated into the classroom
Other websites that are dotted around have the same idea but are not done with the same style and quality that i will be aiming for.
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As I was leaving placement today, i thought the best way to go was to buy some presents for people or basically things for them to eat during the day.
So i bought some pies, some cakes and also stuck a fish behind the fridge. Not Really.
But overall I have really enjoyed this placement and really really like the attitude of the company. Reading on their website, it states that they are working for blue chip companies. To be able to do this, the quality of work has to be exceptional, and it is. From the design work done by the designers on the high chairs to the eventual coding done by the devs in the hottest room in the building, the standard of work is high.
A company like this deserves all the success they can get, especially as its original founders are still here and are the backbone of this company.
Anywho, this is the last day i get to sit in the office drinking tea and doing some work.
Good Day
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Tagged: coffee, placement, refreshed, tea
I f**king hate flash errors. and cookies. the computer kind.
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The last two weeks on the placement have flown by, i think that has been the time since I last posted on here. It has been all about this RSS widget and making sure that it works and that it does everything that it needs to.
However it does seem that it is all going to be about this widget for the length of my placement. Even though it has just been one project, which would take an experienced programmer a few hours, it has taught me a lot. Especially about Flash.
Before starting it, my Flash skills were ropey at the very least, making simple animation and programming the game for my Second year project taught me the structure of Actionscript. However this widget has allowed me to jump deeper into flash and more importantly Actionscript 3.
AS3 is a complete change to AS2 with many of the code structure of AS2 being wiped, which was what I coded the game in. However now that AS3 has slowly grown on me, the changes Adobe have made seem like they had to be made.
Working in an agency also brings with it differences between working at home as a freelancer, which I have heard that some of my coursemates have done.
Also a lot of fun has had in the office with banter flying around between employees which you certainly would not get if you worked from home on a placement. Overall with a week left to go, i have really enjoyed challenging myself and know that my knowledge has grown of action script thus increasing my confidence for the final major project.
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