Alternative Rock
Music Pick of the Day – Catherine Wheel, Part 2
Apr 18th
To follow up on my last Music Pick of the Day, I definitely think Adam and Eve is their greatest album but Catherine Wheel does have a large wealth of other great material. I want to share some of it with you.
Catherine Wheel – Happy Days
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“Happy Days” was one of my favorite albums when I was 15. With this album Catherine Wheel shifted away from their shoegazer/dream pop sound and fully embraced grunge and brutally heavy metal, creating a cool contrast with a softer non-metal singer. I don’t listen to grunge metal so much anymore, but holy shit, the song “God Inside My Head” kicks ass! Play it load. Just play it real loud from the beginning. “Waydown” was a huge radio hit in ’95. “Little Muscle” is a fun song about your tongue.
Compare and contrast this with their next album Adam and Eve
[A LOT more music and videos after the break]
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Music Pick of the Day – Catherine Wheel
Apr 12th
Catherine Wheel – Adam and Eve
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This album changed me. It changed my taste in music.
I loved loved Catherine Wheel’s 1995 grunge heavy metal album “Happy Days
3 years later, I picked it up again for some reason at the much more mature age of 19 and discovered maybe the most beautiful thing I ever heard. My god. This album is stripped away and about pulling back the layers and getting somewhere authentic. I can now tell that Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and Talk Talk’s “Spirit of Eden” were big inspirations. I heard the song “Future Boy” and I was stopped cold. You understand the meaning of the song just from the production mixing, when the rising swirl of insanity and noise disappears into a singer alone with his acoustic guitar. I wanted to learn how to play this song on guitar. I’d been playing guitar for 3 years at this point, but it was this song that got me to turn off the distortion and learn chords beyond metal power chords. This started my journey through acoustic rock. And I was suddenly sad to realize that creating one of the most beautiful works of all time earned this band the reward of being dropped from their label and having their album go out of print to fade into obscurity.
Although they did add one radio friendly song at the last minute; “Delicious” is a cool song, just out of place here.
If this album didn’t exist there never would have been any Coldplay. Listen to Coldplay’s first record “Parachutes”. It’s a watered down attempt at “Adam and Eve”. But props to Coldplay, they were so much better when they tried to pull off Catherine Wheel than when they tried to pull off U2.
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IT Infrastructure Solutions
Apr 6th
Data Centers are necessary for business to fulfill IT requirements. This has caused a rise in companies adopting IoT to supply any sort of communication, communication control and transport.
Infrastructure Solutions
In addition to providing business solutions, the financial sector is becoming increasingly sophisticated in providing infrastructure as well. The Central Business Unit of banks are utilizing infrastructure and application services across various industries. They are using this technology to improve profitability and business prospects of their customers by controlling the number of connected users, tracking their transactions, analyzing the social and security implications of their customers, sending alerts to their IT departments and partners to help avoid disaster and help mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to customer data and assets.
Both private and public sector entities, especially SMEs are increasingly employing AI, machine learning and Data Science to handle complex problems. What is more, SMEs’ requirements for enterprise IoT applications often start from local to national as it tends to be a business requirement with connectivity and reliability of the same or more than 4G or Wi-Fi. Companies in Indian SMEs’ mind are always asking for not only data analytics and business intelligence but also training on what data their operations needs and how to achieve it and that’s why Data Centers resources from sites as Fortinet are essential to make everything run smoothly.
The Future of IoT in India
The rise of the IoT in India is indeed astounding. It is indeed due to a number of reasons. The country is undergoing economic transformation, high rate of urbanization, consumer expectations of products of highest quality and rapid urbanization. What the government and government officials especially understands and address is the huge potential of technology for economic growth. They have established the National IoT Initiative.
There are some businesses that are finding the big opportunity of the IoT with its ability to save and maximize business data. The area of the government sector where big industries have seen opportunity is public transport. There is a clear need for a lot of connectivity and security in the system. For public transport, the latest public transport announcements by different administrations and agencies are encouraging the usage of AI as a way of assessing congestion, traffic flow and moving within the system. These announcements have made a lot of positive impacts on the safety and comfort of public transportation. Public transportation in India is expected to see growth in the current fiscal year in line with its growth in previous years. By 2018, the UTA (Union Transport Authority) plans to install 18.2 million smart contracts on its buses and plying vehicles. This would involve more than $2 billion worth of funding. The Indian government has started work in this direction to minimize the negative environmental impacts of bus operation.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just an IT application, but is a functional IT application as well. Data is not only being collected, it is being used for business analysis. It is also being used to build the infrastructure, better performance and robustness of the systems being used. The Internet of Things in India is transforming the way we do business.
