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Finntroll - Nattfödd

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Have to give a hat tip to Calum from Achren for introducing me to Finntroll. I found them so good, the memory of them survived a Hogmanay by Loch Lomond, much Ale was consumed, but a couple of days later I still remembered listening to them that night and went out looking for their albums. True praise indeed seeing as I didn't remember being at Loch Lomond until 2 days later.

Satyricon - Now, Diabolical

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Another album bought for one track of the back of Last.fms radio feature. Probably would never have listened to Satyricon had it not come on in the mix of other songs, but the track "Now, Diabolical" really grew on me, probably due to its industrial feel.

Enslaved - Below The Lights

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This is just a fantastic album that is probably my most listened to album in the car for some reason. It just seems that when I go anywhere and get to put on an album in the car, this is the one I reach for.

Equilibrium - Sagas

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Another album bought primarily for one tune. I really have to start wondering if I am propping up the music industry by buying albums on the strength of one track, instead of buying the single download and letting the industry die on its arse through it out dated thinking and closed minded business proposals.

But I like having something to hold on to when parting with money and downloads are too easily destroyed when moving computer or the hard drive dies etc.

Manowar - Kings of Metal

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I can't say that I am one of the biggest Manowar fans, but this album is very listenable, I really only got it for one song "Hail and Kill" and even then that only grew on me because of some many listens in the Solid Rock, Glasgow. The clincher was after a night when a friend named Rab was running around with a plastic sword, when this song came on.

I promptly re-worded the song so that the chorus is now always forever etched in my memory as "Rabs, Sword, is not steel!"

Dio - Holy Diver

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A must for any Metal fan and probably needs no explanation as to why its in my most listened to music playlist.

Stand out track for me is the title track Holy Diver

Introduction to the music posts that will follow

The following posts are going to be reviews of albums in my spotify playlist. If you haven't got spotify yet, I would go there now and sign up (http://www.spotify.com), There is a free service and a premium service. You can get all the music on your computer with the free service, but the paid for services can include streaming to your mobile. Check out the comparison here.

A birthday function

When you get older you need to write functions to help you though the day:

Block Hotmail email addresses in user signup

I was recently asked to block users from signing up to a drupal site using a hotmail email address.

To achieve this I wrote a small module that will intercept the validate operation of the user module and add in an extra validation on the mail field of the user registration or edit form.

Create your dot info file: hotmail_check.info

; $Id$
name = Hotmail Check
description = "Removes the ability to login with a hotmail email address."
core = 6.x

Then create your dot module file: hotmail_check.module

Backup a drupal site - both database and site files through cron

I wrote a little linux bash script that I get cron to run each night to create a backup of my drupal site. I may expand it later to include auto deletion of older files and database dumps, but for the meantime I will just manage the backup files manually.

Basically create a file and call it something like site_backup.sh

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