http://www.mr-eel.com Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because I never get sick of doing these kinds of things — except blogging, which I am completely slack with — I’ve kicked off another musical side-project. I’ve decided to make some house music. Turing’s Apple Deeply indebted to Force Tracks, micro-house — stupid name for a genre — and dub-techno. Basically ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/182 Ok, so the name of this post is slightly misleading, since most of these releases aren’t actually new, but they’re new to me, so fuck it. Arsis - We Are the Nightmare Arsis definitely have an old-school death metal vibe, none of this metalcore, post-hardcore what-the-fuck nonsense, this is straight up death. ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/177 I’ve been indulging myself again. www.mr-eel.com/music http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/173 I had a friend ask after some of these old images, so in a few idle hours this afternoon I decided to stick the better stuff up in one place. These are non-commercial images, all done years ago at random and for fun only. It makes me dimly nostalgic to ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/171 She Said Destroy - This City Speaks in Tongues In my opinion their last LP was seriously under-rated and this LP is even better. Mechanistic and limber, it's fucking vicious. It's got all your metal tropes, but is precise and emotive — a record of tightly controlled and clearly expressed rage. I ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/165 So, recently we've learned that Merb will be merged with Rails. This is complete bullshit. I'm strongly opposed to the idea and I think it's a huge mistake. I won't enumerate all the reasons why — I think that's all going to be thrashed to death in the coming days — ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/158 For no particular reason, I decided to fiddle about with a bit of Javascript and rebuild my personal/portfolio site. It’s just a single page intended to act as a hub for all stuff I amuse myself with. Check it out, bo! A few mildly interesting things for you web-wonks out there. It ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/156 I feel a bit spoiled for good video games. There is so much great stuff about at the moment, I literally don’t have time to play all the ones I want to. A good problem to have. So here's some of the stuff that I’ve enjoyed the most lately. Gears of ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/152 I haven’t done this for a little bit and I do like talking about music, so I thought I might go over some of my more recent Metal discoveries. Somehow I’ve found myself listening to more and more Black Metal. Like most forms of music, pretty much all of it is ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/145 I’ve used a fair amount of content management systems over the years. They’re all pretty awful. I won’t enumerate over all the reasons, since plenty of other grumpy people have done that already. Instead I thought I might highlight two of the main concerns I have when using a CMS. I’m ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/143