Arcade Fire
The
Arcade Fire made an
appearance on Saturday Night
Live
last night,
performing `intervention'. I am going to see this band
at the famous
Massey
Hall on the 15th or 16th of May, a concert I am very much looking forward
to.
I found a really odd cover song on youtube the other day, Paul
Anka
covering
Nirvanas' `Smells like teen spirit'. It's actually pretty good as opposed to
this most horrible of cover attempts, Celine
Dion
covering ACDC's
`You Shook Me All Night Long'..
/me shudders...
Some good news in the software world, according
to
this
email, we will not have to wait long to see the very pretty
xft branch of emacs merged into
the
emacs-snapshot package. Also,
GNU
Screen now officially
supports vertical splits. The updated package is not yet in Debian unstable but
I don't suppose we will have to wait that long for it to arrive.
Finally, I was given a new hard drive to hold my ripped movies. Its a 320GB
drive that I formatted with
the
XFS filesystem. I chose XFS
since I had never used it before and it is supposedly very good at handling
larger files which movies tend to be. I had to load the XFS kernel module and
install two packages
xfsprogs xfsdump but other than that it went
nice and smoothly. Some people have warned me in irc that XFS isn't that stable
but others then said they've had no problems with it so I guess time will tell.
