To be totally honest, it's nothing like I expected compared to their first and second album, Gorillaz and Demon Days. For those that haven't read their book, other then explaining the beginnings of Gorillaz from the "band's" point of view, it did explain a lot of the ideas really where for the first two albums. The first album really didn't have a meaning, it was just music. The second album however, had meaning, while I don't want to bother to explain it, it's about the world and it's current state. The third album, I really have no idea what the meaning is, I may have to listen to the lyrics a little closer a few more times.

The album starts out with the music that you hear on the website (or did) introducing plastic beach. Second song I laughed about a little, Snoop Dogg rap's in "Welcome to the world of the plastic beach". Through the rest of the album there are appearances by Bashy (I really have no idea who that is), and De La Soul, which anyone that keeps up with Gorillaz, they worked with De La Soul quite a bit in their last album, Demon Days.

Even though I wasn't exactly overcome with this album, I did enjoy the album. My favorites are Stylo and Superfast Jellyfish, and the album itself gives me a beach-like feeling.

I'll be looking forward to hearing the story behind the Gorillaz venture to the plastic beach.

I recommend this album to anyone who likes hip-hop, techno, and rap.

On a (mainly) daily basis, I'll update with something I learned today, usually about coding or server related things. (EDIT: I lied, probably on a bi-weekly {or monthly, like my posts} basis, I haven't learned anything worth sharing in the last few days.)

So, without further babble, what I learned today, how to install mercurial correctly on CentOS.

A few days back I moved all my websites from my VPS back to Extroverthost's web hosting server, during this time, I installed hg, but kept getting PYTHONPATH errors when using the hg command, which was a major annoyance. After hours of looking around, I finally came across the website I mentioned in the beginning, with the information I needed to fix my PYTHONPATH issue.

How to install on CentOS

wget http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.4.3.tar.gz
tar zxf mercurial-1.4.3.tar.gz
cd mercurial-1.4.3/
make (this will show you your make options, for local install, full install, etc)
make <option>
hg debuginstall


If you get a PYTHONPATH error when using hg debuginstall, put the following in your .bashrc:


PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:${PYTHONPATH}
export PYTHONPATH


Learned from: http://w-i-l-t.tumblr.com/post/165104796/mercurial-install-centos-5-3

Also, feel free to add me, sindakus@googlewave.com

In my opinion, children these days, should be beat, and not heard.

http://brokenop.com/2009/12/02/punishing-children/

I'll mirror my posts their here in an excerpt form that links to the full post.

Also, if you're looking for vps/dedi/web hosting, check out ExtrovertHost.

Also Anicho is going to hack me SO BAD. Watch out, I might be hacked (or I might already be!)

Later.

In other news, I'm working on my own blogging software. It'll be no WordPress, but the aim is to make it easy to modify, and have an extension system (as of right now). Currently it is PHP, however now that I have mod_python going I may decide to code it in python, though I need to learn more about PHP classes, so I may put the python stuff on hold. I'll post more about that later.

I really thought I'd have more to post about, but there hasn't been enough happening since my last last post, oh, and we're under a hurricane warning, yay!

I'll post again later if I don't die.

UPDATE

Ida turned into a tropical storm which will probably do hardly anything. So I won't die.

1. install the packages

I personally installed the packages, if you choose to install from source more power to you, but with debian's apache install, installing mods from source is slightly confusing.

Now, assuming you're using debian's apache package, and have python2.5+ installed, use:

$ apt-get install libapache2-mod-python

2. load the module

Now, with debian's apache package, you need to use the following commands to load the mod_python module to apache:

$ cd /etc/apache2/mods-available
$ mv python.* ../mods-enabled
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. make it work

Now, you need to cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and do the following:

/var/www

If you're using /var/www for your website(s), then use the following configuration in default (or in my case, 000-default (symlink to default in ../sites-available)):

<Directory /var/www/>
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
   AddHandler mod_python .py
   PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
   PythonDebug On
</Directory>

Now, I used the next method I'm about to show, but I did this anyway, just in case. Does it matter if this is in default? I don't know for sure.

users

This is the method I'm using, which allows to enable it for certain users, in this example I made a file called james in sites-enabled and put the following in it:

DocumentRoot /home/USER/public_html/
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On

4. restart!

Now, you need to restart apache with the following command:

$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

5. test

Now to be sure it works, create a file, testing.py in the area you enabled it for, and put the following code in it:

def index():
   print "Hello world!"

If it works, you should view the file from your browser and see Hello world!

Well, this is the end of this tutorial, I can't guarantee it'll work, but it did for me, and I know I was a little irritated since I couldn't find any straight forward tutorials about this, so I figured I'd make my own for someone else who may be looking around, if something is wrong with my tutorial, or anyone wants to plug theirs or others, feel free to comment.

Recently I've decided to take up python, I haven't learned too much, yet, though I want to start something (like a website) in python soon, just need to figure out mod_fcgi, apache and I don't know each other very well. Recently I've decided to learn how to use mercurial version control system (did I state that correctly?) for my repositories. First I used git, then svn, but hstuart mad mercurial seem so much better, so I decided to learn it (I worship the stuff he bakes). Currently learning more about it. Soon to release a new pastebin which is a copy of sprunge.us, but in php, rather then python (we plan on make it python in the distant future), it'll be released when I can buy the domain, currently it's in version one, we plan to add more to it that it doesn't have currently (currently supports paste, line numbers, and API for people without the curl command), more info on that in the future. pylon from additionalpylons and I started work on that pastebin, and currently (and very slowly..) working on a logging bot in python with a web interface (which uses webpy). The idea is to make it one process- you start the bot, it starts the website and logger. This has already been achieved, now we need to work on the actual logging and user authentication. We plan on making this open source, while making a website that anyone can request the bot on any network. I'll put more information about that whenever we get around to releasing, which should be in the not so distant future now that I've stopped using github and started using my own repositories, we can work a little faster. Other upcoming projects include my want to make a dnsbl, this would be open source , easy to setup, and of course, used at anyones digressions. My main want to code one is to understand how dnsbl's work, and of course, planning to code it in python, so it'll be a learning experience in many ways, this will probably also be used so I can setup a personal dnsbl for my IRC network, and for use on my websites, more on that later as well.

I recently watched G.I. Joe and Year One (today, actually). I really actually enjoyed G.I. Joe, wasn't bad at all, it's very obvious a sequel will come. I personally never saw many of the old cartoons, so I can't say I know much about the storyline, so I'm just going by what the movie alone, and it was good. Year One, not so much. The story was alright, but I didn't get much enjoyment from watching it, though it had it's funny parts, certainly not a must watch. This was also the uncensored version, and comparing watchmen uncensored and this, I don't know what is uncensored about it, really. I think the next movie I plan to watch is Gamer, it really caught my eye. For some reason I thought it was called The Game.

So during the time after I saved this this morning, I watched Gamer and District 9. Gamer was alright, it had a good plot, but it wasn't much of a watch. I enjoyed District 9 quite a bit, the ending was pretty interesting, after the plot twist with the ship I wasn't sure where things would end, but it had a semi good ending, so I was happy. I thought it was interesting you only see ONE child alien in the movie though. It is a total must watch, some were not impressed, I thought it was great. Now I think I'm out of movies I'm interested in watching.

Today we put down California.US.SinIRC.Net. R.I.P. IT WAS A GOOD SERVER. Replaced it with LA.US.SinIRC.Net, which is in the same data center. I would have named it California, though it was convenient at the time to have both linked to migrate the users over to the new server then go ahead and kill them all off by suddenly killing off California, so LA was the new name. Growing is slow, but I'm still happy.

This is where I end the post of the month. I want to plug a new blog that can be accessed from my awesome blog roll Cremastermind, a blog about stuff nobody cares about featuring reviews about stuff nobody cares about, and other things nobody cares about. I've been told that if I decide I want to submit any material it will be published, so if I do, I'll be sure to mirror it this way as well, so my whole five readers can see it.