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Frission
A synapse fires, then another. The results cascade. Your pupils dilate. Your hair stands on end. Something has happened, yet you are not in danger. Logically speaking you are safe, yet your senses are heightened and the difference from a moment before is greater than you can rationalise. This is frission. This is why I…
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Kap Bambino and Vitalic live 28th Match 2013
At Koko Kap Bambino are a French electro band. I first saw them supporting Atari Teenage Riot a couple of years ago. That was a really good gig. I even started following FOE who were the opening act. Kap Bambino didn’t quite click for me, but one of my friends got really into them. When he asked if…
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Bloc Party Live 22nd February 2013
At Earl’s Court Bloc Party are a London based indie rock band with a very distinctive sound. They recently reformed and have released their forth album imaginatively titled Four. Four does have some of their is a bit stripped back compared to Intimacy, with no synth, but does have their signature delay used throughout. It does feel…
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Vertica Error 4115 and new tables
I’m in the process of creating data tables to be populated by our load system. This will be updated periodically, so using a MERGE statement makes sense. After creating the table and attempting to merge I receive the following error: ERROR 4115: No super projection found for table table_name But isn’t a super projection created…
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Black Light Burns live 14th February 2013
At The Underworld Black Light Burns is creative work of on and off Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland. He was described it as his main project and free of the need to be commercial or fit someone else’s vision he has had the freedom to be far more experimental. We’re still talking industrial rock, but it…
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Storage and Dataloading in Vertica
Column based stores are optimized for reading, but Vertica boasts quick write times and no locking issues. How does it manage this? Vertica uses its memory as a write optimized store before commiting data to disk in the main read optimized store. Data loading There are two commands for inserting data into the database. The…
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Introduction to Vertica
Looks like I’ll be spending some time using Vertica, a relatively new SQL technology. My main contact with databases has been with MySQL. There is information but far less than I’m use to. So I’m going to document my process. I’ve been looking for a writing challenge. It’ll be good to have a reminder and hopefully help the…
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The Tiger Lillies Hamlet 20th September 2012
At The Southbank Centre The Tiger Lillies are an esoteric band. It’s not often you find someone who makes blasphemy a major theme. However behind the inch thick makeup up and farce are some talented musicians. Only a passing knowledge of the band is enough to know that this wasn’t going to be a typical…
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Angelspit live 15th September 2012
At Elecrotwekz/Slimelight Angelspit are a fairly unique electro-industrial band from Australia. They have four albums to their name, have recently expanded from a two piece to a four piece and I was glad to get to see them on their Wall Street Massacre tour. [youtube http://youtu.be/COzASzHd2VI] Slimelight is the longest running goth/alt club in London. Like…
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Mike Ramnarine 