Archive for September, 2007

Dodgy Hax

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I recently upgraded to WP 2.3, and an old hack I’d done came back to bite me in the arse. What I had was:
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results(”
SELECT
Distinct
C.cat_id,
C.cat_name
FROM
$wpdb->link2cat As L2C
JOIN
$wpdb->categories As C
On C.cat_id = L2C.category_id
WHERE
C.cat_id <> (category id was here)
“);
But link2cat has been removed. I replaced this, after a bit of hunting, with the (much more sensible):
$link_cats [...]

Percee P vs. Lord Finesse

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Percee P vs. Lord Finesse Live @ The Patterson Projects, 1989
Oh My.

Mo Music Mo Problems

Friday, September 21st, 2007

More low-rent mixery, though this one’s actually from last weekend, during my time not rotated into to our 2 man Perfect Dark Zero co-op magnifica.

[ download ]
Tracks:
DM + Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
Game - Compton
Jay-Z - Trouble
Clipse - Mr Me Too
Audio 2 - Top Billin’
Non-Prophets - Disasters
Dr Syntax - Subculture
HP & Devise - Double Damage

Throwback Rap Attack

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Where did all the good rap suddenly come from? Considering we’ve had maybe two or three good rap records this year (Turf Talk, UGK, erm…), there suddenly seems to be plenty of nice stuff about. Aesop Rock’s None Shall Pass is decent, though maybe not quite on the standard of Labor Day or Bazooka Tooth. [...]

Guest Miami-ing

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

My brother’s summary of this weeks CSI Miami has covered the essential points so well, I think I’ll just repost it here:
Oh my was CSI good last night, not only because they introduced and concluded a terrorist plot in under 20 minutes, but because there were so many good moments, which I will now list:
1) [...]

Film4 Vocabulary

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Dear Film4, in your Freeview description for The Transporter, I think you were looking for the word “courier”:
“… former Special Forces operative, now working as a mercenary package deliverer…”

Roquefort: Pun Camp

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

“By the time they’ve finished with you will be an elite Puntrooper in the Humour Army, which as you know is commanded by General Hilarity.”
Get to it, coolstyler.