Faith No More has reformed an will be playing the Soundwave Festival in February 2010.

Now before I come off as completely un-environmentally friendly let me just prefix this with some things.

1. I don’t own a car. When I go shopping I walk to and from the supermarket and to and from other shops. If its out of walking distance most of the time I catch public transport.
2. I pay extra on my electricity bill for “green” electricity. (Although for a few dollars a week extra how green is it other wise why not just make everyone pay it?) I look forward to the day when I am in my own home and can go 100% solar and not pay any electricity bills and feel less guilty about all the electrical things I run.
3. I have talked to my building manager about recycling and what can be done to make it available. Its not available in my building. It really should be like normal houses.
4. I don’t use plastic bags from the supermarket if its only a few items and I can carry them on my walk home.

Now with that out of the way let the ranting begin…

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For the month of March iiNet is streaming a Dig (Directions in Groove) concert from the Perth Festival. According to their website it should be viewable by anyone but “internet quota free” if you are an iiNet customer. If you are clever you can probably also figure out how to download it.

URL: http://www.iinet.net.au/freezone/#app=f679&1d4c-selectedIndex=4

(Note the have part 1 and part 2 backwards on the site for some reason…)

Dig were one of my favourite Australian bands. I blogged about going to see them in Sydney last year. Was good even though it was only a cut down 40 minute show. Although their style and sound has changed a lot since their albums – its really more of a live remix they put on a fantastic show. Great grooving music.

I did find some more details on what happened to the band in a SMH review of a recent show. Will they reform and play again? Who knows. I hope to see them live again.

Here is the blurb from the site:

They are making an animated Astro Boy movie. Its due to come out this year. Trailer is out. Not sure what to make of it yet. I enjoyed watching it back in the 80’s. Animation /art style is different to the old cartoons. IMDB lists a lot of famous people provide voices.

I ran across Ohloh on the web today and to my surprise WinBolo was already listed as an Open Source project on there. I linked it up to the google code SVN repository. so I could have a look at some of the project statistics.

I’m proud of this one:

Extremely well-commented source code

winbolo is written mostly in C.

Across all C projects on Ohloh, 19% of all source code lines are comments. For winbolo, this figure is 38%.

This very impressive number of comments puts winbolo among the best 10% of all C projects on Ohloh.

A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.

Here is another widget from the site:

If only it didn’t put a giant space below the widget…