NEW! Boards of Canada – Reach for the Dead

First track released off the imminent new BOC release:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0

Armin Van Buuren – Shivers

Okay, more than a bit cheesy but hey, it’s monday…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUn3AWOw8k

Propagandhi – Cognitive Suicide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amZUB-EOL6M

Good Riddance – Mother Superior

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crdz9rGoRJY

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Goodbye MediaMonkey hello MusicBee

I’ve recently swapped out MediaMonkey for my music library and playing needs in favour of MusicBee. Rather similar names beget, in this case, rather similar applications. Very similar actually… At first glance almost identical but everything seems to work just that little bit better MusicBee so far. It also seems far more customisable ‘out of the box’ and offer some pretty novel playback modes. Though it’s not open source it is freeware so that’s a plus.

http://getmusicbee.com/

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Masterchef finale…

Most looking forward to watching the finale of Masterchef tonight.

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu The Jams – Don’t Take Five Take What You Want

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu The Jams – Don’t Take Five Take What You Want

SNC-Lavalin in involved bribery scandal

It’s interesting to see SNC-Lavalin in the news out in this neck of the woods. Turns out they’re a rather corrupt lot. Though the Asian Development Bank has banned them from winning contracts on the Bank’s projects for the next 10 years due their involvement in bribery in Bangladesh, one can only speculate as to the transparency of their work here in Cambodia.

I’m really only familiar with them because of their ongoing involvement with rapid-transit in Vancouver. They are currently lined up to build the upcoming Evergreen Line and were responsible for building the Canada Line. At that time their involvement was being opposed for a number of reasons, one of which was their involvement in weapons manufacture. They’ve also notably been involved in screwing over temporary foreign workers, who only after 5-years of court orders and failed compliance on the part of SNC-Lavalin, got paid for their work on the Canada Line.

So now it turns out they’re also involved in bribery and corruption in developing countries elsewhere. Somehow it’s not much of a surprise…

Post Format Test

Just playing around with WP Post Formats a bit. This is a status post.

New site for justinpn.com

I just finished updating my self site: justinpn.com

It’s fully responsive so give it a go on your phone or tablet and let me know if anything doesn’t work!

Any thoughts?

www.justinpn.com

Human settlements

Just a little business card design for a friend of mine.

The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing

Who governs digital trust?

Doctorow framed the question this way: “Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochlear implants. They HAVE to be trustworthy.”

The core issues for Doctorow come down to Human Rights versus Property Rights, Lockdown versus Certainty, and Owners versus mere Users.

On the Mekong

A few shots from Chroy Changvar looking up and down the river.

Looking North up the Mekong.

South towards the meeting of the Bassac and Mekong.

Looking west across the Bassac.

Northumberland

A few quick ones from Tokyo

Click to zoom. More coming soon.