The Pierces are a fantastic band from across the pond whose album ‘Thirteen tales of love and revenge‘ came out fairly recently. So I bought it the other week without having heard too much of the sisters work. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised!
The song writing is top notch and the tunes themselves draw you in nicely and generally keep you bobbing along. I’m a big fan of ‘Turn on Billie’ and ‘Kill Kill Kill’ and the first album track ‘Secret’ is beautiful in a slightly dark and scary manner!
Go and check them out as you will like it and they do come across as intelligent downright nice lasses; who you probably wouldn’t want to hack off!
http://www.thepiercesmusic.com/
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Whilst I’m on the subject of useful web design tools I thought I’d share the Gemini issue tracker from Countersoft with you.
A lot of agencies tend to treat the whole testing and quality assurance process far too lightly but that is a major issue for another day. At the very least you should have somewhere to flag and track bugs and issues, assign priorities and actually assign the issues to someone to deal with. Gemini does all this and much more. I’ve used it at DNA and LIDA and the Head of QA at DNA, Peter Lewis-Dale, recommends it highly.
And he knows his onions.
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I’ve been working in the web world for about ten years now and haven’t ever really seen a decent off the shelf content management system for flash based sites. But the guys at 10cms showed me a demo of their new-ish flash cms when I was working at LIDA . This looks like a top tool and the technical director at LIDA (my good friend Jon Chandler) has seen the updated version and says it looks like a good bet if you want to content manage small flash campaign sites.
http://www.10cms.com/
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