2Devils Internet Radio

Last week i decided to set up a Internet radio show, for my brother Dj pilledduk and myself, so that we have another way of promoting ourselves, i looked across the net and found lots of options but none that were not going to cost me a arm and a leg anyway i found a really cheap solution to the problem over at
pirateradio.com, it was easy to set up and i also got myself some free web hosting for our website over at host-ed.net which was free and very good.

ProSound L58AW Wireless Microphone

Not sure where to start with this one but basicly, i got up the other morning feeling full of beans and ready to spit some of the new rhymes and lay them down on a track or two, only to discover that some how (most probably the kids) my jack plug on the end of my mic had snapped off.

Well i can tell you i nearly cried, but the truth is ive been looking for an excuse to buy a better microphone for ages, but there was no way i could justify buying one when my wife knew i had a working (although cheap) one. well i found my excuse now and promptly explained i was going into town to buy a new more expensive microphone,
as you can imagine that went down like a lead balloon but i wasnt going to take no for an answer.

so my twin sons ryan & kyle my daughter jasmine and me all walked up to the town and i went into our local "Maplins Electronic Store", now there was a lot of mic's in there but they wasnt really what i wanted as a wireless mic is not really what i need because i use a mic stand most of the time, but they didnt really have any coreded mics that where any good.

So i made the choice to test out one of these wireless one's, the one i looked at was all black and it was some make i had never even herd of before, it was priced up at £59,99 so the guy got it out the case for me wired it up and let me test it in the shop, to be fair it sounded good not amazing but better than my last mic and for the price i was happy, so i picked up a new mic stand & spit/pop filter and told the assistant i would have all three.

Now the assistant rang up the total and said he would go out back and get me the mic, and put the other back in the display cabinet, so off he went out back and came out with my new mic in its box, he charged me the price that he had already rang up on the till, i paid and the kids and i left the shop. It wasnt till we got home and i opend the box that ryan says to me, "thats not the mic you asked for dad", so i take a look and see the boy is right, the assistant had picked up the wrong box and instead of giving me the £59,99 microphone he had mistakenly given me the £99,99 one.

So i had a result i got the more expensive mic for the cheaper price, and as it turns out a much better quality one, for example a friend of mine has a "Sure" wireless mic thats £240 to buy and as yet we can not tell a difference in the sound quality between the two so i had a big result it seems. The only problem is that i have a chest infection at the moment so i cannot really use it properly and ive got to wait lol.

Lean Fm 93.1

Well last week my little brother dave - AkA - Dj Pilledd uk, invited me down to the radio station studio, where he plays his set's every friday and sunday, so as its not that often i get to go out what with work and 4 kids oh and the wife lol (love you hun) so i thought what the hell, its go to be worth it just for a laugh even if it does make me feel old.

Anyway i turn up at the studio introduce myself to a few of the Dj's and Mc's down a few beers and before i know it im having a great time and its 2am.
To be honest with you i spent most of the next day asleep a shame because apparently it was a really sunny day but oh well lol.

On the sunday my brother tells me that he is gonna start an afternoon session from 12 so of we go into the studio to set up, at which point he hands me the mic and says, and i quote "your doing all the shout outs, phone no/website promotion today bruv" well ok i say why not seen as tho im a rapper and use a mic alot anyway, dave just nodded his head and said "im a dj i dont touch the mic".

So sunday we played for 4hrs the phone lines didnt stop ringing and we even had somone from norway locked in, they also came to the chatroom, so another good day all in all im looking forward to going down there again soon.

Below are a few pictures that i took, please also take the time to visit the leanfm website, there are downloads on there as well as news on up and comming line ups, just pop along one friday night and hit the listen live link.

Leanfm.com



Me and my brother Dj Pilledd uk



Mc Napa (left) Mc Kushdee (middle) not sure who the random dude on the end is.



Dj Phoenix

Rise Of The Spambots

Well i have noticed that over the last 8 months, the number of spambots that keep visiting all my useual web hangouts, which are mostly forums has risen by a huge amount, and i have seen many people on thse forums talking about how to stop them, by adding all these little scripts and php add ons etc etc.

Now from what i can gather the only type of forum add on's that are working "for now anyway" to get the spammers out are the SMF fourms, but alot of the IPB and phpBB and some others are just getting raped by the spambots regardless of add on's and stuff.

So for those of you that are still getting prob's, or if you dont want to waste your time adding other scripts, maybe you should give this a try, as i know it works because a friend of mine has done it on his very populer smiley forum It won't stop all of it but it will stop most people who normaly use a language based on glyphs (like chineese) and only have a rudimentary knowledge of western languages.

It should stop mosts bots though.
They won't know if a particular letter should be read from the outlined letter or from a solid filled letter.

You just need to change the registration font.
Use an outline font like ransom.ttf

The bots and most chineese can't read that and so can't complete the registration.

hope this helps some of you out......thx again phil.

MentaL MindtriX

The other day i created myself a fan page over on facebook for my rap alias and stage name "MindtriX", this was the first time i had used facebook as a way of promoting my music and was not so sure that it was going to benifit me in a big way.

But i have to say i was quite impressed with the ease of doing it, and i noticed that it became alot easier for me to share my music and thoughts with my small but loyal fanbase, i have added a widget to the top left of this blog page so anyone that wishes to check out my page can do so, there are free mp3 downloads to be found on that page and i will add more as time goes on so please check back.

Once again thanks for reading, Phil.

My Music

Easy Searching For Car Spares

Its that time of the year for us when we need to renew our car M.O.T so my wife took it into the test centre yesterday, unfortunetly it failed because the far left passanger side seatbelt has snapped off.  This is not a new fault as it was like this when we bought the car 3 yrs ago, its never really been a problem as our car is an 8 seater so the kids just never used that seat, and although this same car had passed the M.O.T  at the same test centre for the last 3 yrs they still failed it, with the bloke saying to my wife "you obviously didnt hide it well enough this year" lol.

Anyway we need to get this seatbelt sorted in 10 days so that we get our free retest, beause we can't really afford to pay another 50 quid, so today my wife and i started to check out the internet and phone around some local breakers yards to see if we could find one...

After some searching around my wife found this site called Breakerlink.com which is like one of those price comparision websites but for car parts, here is what it say's on there homepage...

Submit your request instantly to 100s of breakers across the UK 
Start by selecting the type of vehicle Car, Van or 4x4 
or complete your details  on the right
You'll then receive no obligation quotations 
Choose your best offer - saving you up to 80% 
Nationwide delivery available

So my wife entered the details and hit enter, and as if by magic within minutes her inbox was filling up with quote's and also her phone started to ring constantly with people offering her the best deals, this site saved us a hell of a alot of time and really cut down our searching and for that reason and the fact that it was a very good service i thought i would share it with you all..

We got the part we needed for £27 with next day dilivery and now we should be good for another year at least...

Thanks for reading

Prince of Persia Xbox 360

My eldest son finley got this game as a xmas prezzie from his nan at the time she got it, it had only just been released so along with the game she also got him the official game guide which has helpul hints on what would otherwise be difficult situations within the game. Now to be frank i was not in a big rush to play this game so apart from the first boot up to check the graphics its been in its box collecting dust.

So a couple of days ago my boy fired it up as we thought it was about time we checked it out, so from first glance it looks to be very nice, looking crisp and smooth graphics with a few nice animated intros and cut scenes, but right off the bat you are met with this very confusing looking map/hud display that took both of us a few moments to work out what it was for.

Anyway we started playing and have now got at least half way through the main story, and apart from a few tricky puzzles  to work out (which the game guide came in handy for) its a pretty boring repetitive game which does not really differ from the other prince of persia games in the past, and very soon bouncing off one wall to another becomes teadious.

In my opinion you shouldnt waste your time playing this game if you wanna run along walls and jump off things play assasins creed because at least you can throw a few guards off the roofs if you get bored.

My rating: 4/10

Phil.

Notorious, Biggie Smalls "The Movie"

Ok well last nite my wife went up to her friends house to have a chick flick session and left me at home with the kids, so up untill 9.30 ish i was having to watch hotel for dogs, which i cant tell you about as i wasnt really paying attention, but anyway 9.30 or so the boys went up to bed and i was left with a decison of what to do, now i could sit on facebook and easily eat up a few hours or watch the new Notorious movie.

Now ive been waiting for a while to watch this film as i am a massive biggie smalls fan, the only problem was that part of me didnt want to watch it as i was worried that they might have made the normal "hollywood" exaggerated crap,  rather than the truth and this would have really annoyed me. Anyway i decided to watch it and promptly put the dvd into the player, turned the volume up and got myself ready for what i was hoping to be the best hiphop movie ever.

Im not going to sit here and spoil the movie for you by telling you what happens and stuff, i just wanted to give you my two cents worth so you knew what this movie was gonna be like. First off im going to talk about the casting of the actors for this movie and how in some case's imo they got it spot on where as some of the other choices left me wondering why.

Take Jamal Woolard the guy that is playing the part of Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace for example, for me this guy could not have played that part any better and it surprised me just how good he really was, there were times through the film where i even forgot that it was not really biggie just an actor. The same can almost be said about Derek Luke who plays Sean 'Puffy' Combs, who also portrayed his part in the film very well although there was just one thing that bugged me and that was how they made puffy look like me was  an angel that never did no wrong. 

Now this brings me to what i think was a bad choice Anthony Mackie who is palying the part of Tupac Shakur, not only did i think this dude was a crap actor from the part he played as "Poppa Doc" in 8 mile but to cast him as 2pac i belive was a big mistake, to me he brought no life to the part, he was dull and didnt at anypoint make me belive he was 2pac. The other person in this film that i belive was a wrong choice to cast was Antonique Smith who played the part of Faith Evans, why i hear you ask, wll maybe because shes got to be one of the most uglyist women in the world ever, i mean come on Faith Evans is a very good looking women and this person they have got to play her part looks like shes the result of inbreeding.

Anyway thats my rant over, now the film its self was everything i wanted it to be, it covered everything it could of done without being 3hrs long and i must admit that at the end while ms wallace was talking while she was being driven in her sons funeral procession i had a slight tear in the corner of my eye, all in all a very well made film that is def a must see. My Rating 9/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472198/

Phil.

Fishing In The Sunshine

Yesterday my friend alex and i thought we would take advantage of the fine sunshine we have been having these last few days and get in a few hours fishing over at the lake behind the estate he lives on.

So anyway the target fish for the day were tench but we also had a rod out for carp on a buzzer, but the carp can be such a pain in the backside to entice into feeding at this venue which is why we tend to always fish there for the tench, plus the sun was not really bright and it was a little overcast perfect for the tench to feed one would think.

But no such luck, i had a few knocks but nothing to yell about, i tried mixing my bait up a bit to enduce a bite but weather it be corn, meat, bread and anything else to hand they would not take it,and to make matters worse a "pike" that was double figures for sure, came splashing into my swim snatching at the small fry that was feeding on my groundbait, which in turn scared anything that was in the area of my bait far far away....

Alex had a bit more luck than me but not a huge amount more, he also had a few knocks on his tench rod but only managed to snag 2 snot fish (breem) he had three seperate takes on his carp rod though, but everytime he struck the rod it was weightless.

So all in all a crap day fishing but for me it does not matter that i didnt catch, sure it would have been nice to have bagged a few but just to sit a the side of a lake in the blazing sun is good enough for me....

Phil

My LG Viewty KU990i Headache

Ok well my problem started when my eldest son finley said that he wanted a lg veiwty ku990 for his upcomming eleventh birthday, my wife lynsey and i talked about it and said we saw no problems with him having this phone even tho at £127.99 it was not cheap.

So anyway my son and i set about looking at all the video and txt reveiws that we could find over the internet, we found loads and after a couple of hours surfing we decided that we would go to the mobile phone shop and look at it for ourselves, we went to the local O2 shop and got the saleswoman to give us a demo of the phone, finley said he was happy and we left.

So two days later my wife and i go and by this phone we paid cash for it and got it on O2 pay and go (as thats the network we all use). We get home with this phone and as always being "dad" i get the rights to open it up and do my own little investigations.

Anyway i open it up and notice straight away that there is  1, no stylus, 2, no usb cable, 3, no pc suite software disc.

So my wife double checked the box but still there was none to be found, so i phoned the O2 shop up and after waiting what seemed like almost an hour i got through, i explained my concerns and was told to come back into the shop with the phone, so back to the shop i took the phone and i basicly had to wait 20mins to get seen, so as you can imagine i was getting a little miffed.

So this salesman come out and first tells me that we have just bought the KU990i Veiwty (Lite) not as we thought the KU990 Veiwty, so ok we have the newer version result in my book but whats the catch?, well he says this new one does not come with the stylus!! its apparently a better touchscreen now so the stylus is not needed, well i have to say i thought he was full of crap but i thought, ok i can live with that finley already said he wasnt gonna use the stylus anyway.

So where is my usb cable and my software disc? i ask, only to be told that when O2 bought the phones from LG they decided not to buy the cable and discs and include them in there packages (cheap tossers). so basicly i would have to buy the cable extra and download the software which for already paying £130 is just taking the piss imo.

The guy in the O2 shop was a g0od bloke and he said he would give be a usb cable he had spare out back for free and he said i would just have to download the software from LG, this sounded fine to me so i packed up my stuff and left the shop.

Ok so i go back home fire up the internet and proceed to track down the LG pc suite for the ku990i, ok well to cut an even longer story short, its not yet available i could only find the one for the ku990 and when ever i tired to run that one it tells me that its the wrong application for my model of phone, so after trying for ages i phone lg support,  after they hung up on me 3 times i got through.

i talked the bloke thru my problems and what drivers i had downloaded so on and so forth, and he told me that everything i had done was right they just had not yet released the pc suite that is compatible with the new lg veiwty ku990i lite and i would just have to keep checking the site untill they release the update.

So basicly i have a camera phone that will not let me take anything off the memeroy what so ever all we can access is the micro sd card as its reconised as a mass storage device.

Now if you was thinking about buying one of these phones let me just tell you as a phone & camera its really good and as yet we have found no problems with it, but if your gonna buy one DONT buy from O2 and DONT buy for at least another 2 months unless your happy not being able to sync to your pc.

Hope this helps somone, Phil.

Take A Walk With Me

Well welcome to my first blog, first off id like to say thanks for dropping by. On this blog im going to be posting topics about a very wide range of stuff which will be different on a daliy basis, for example on day i could be talking about a freeware program that i found and the next i could be just telling you about the day ive just had, i may bore you and you may at some point wish me dead but alas your cry's fall on deaf ears as im going nowhere (well except maybe hell but not for somtime yet!).

Phil.