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January 18th, 2007

Putting a down payment on Heaven and to Hell with everyone else

It’s school project time for a friend. The kids (about 12 I think) are all to be given £1 and allowed one month to see how much they can make from that initial sum.
Is it just me that thinks that’s wrong?
It doesn’t even come close to “teaching them the value of money”, preferring instead […]

December 21st, 2006

Shafted by the iPod

Apropos of my claims that vinyl can’t carry DRM the fucktards at Apple have shafted me up the arse.
I installed a new software version (1.3) for the old iPod the other night which now righteously refuses to play any of the .mp3s I have created from my vinyl collection. Ironically the last step of creating […]

December 18th, 2006

Gleam

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November 12th, 2006

Hedge Hopping

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Is it time to confess that I never do much riding once Autumn takes a firm grip of the weather?
Tired after a winter, spring and summer of training and racing the bike gets put away at the end of October and left to rust solid. By then autumn storms have left […]

October 27th, 2006

Serendipity

No Page or Plant here
The latest version of iTunes has an “Automatic Album Art” feature.
As long as you have an iTunes Store account, iTunes will automatically fetch available album art for any CD you imported to iTunes.
This feature has turned into a source of amusement.
Sites such as last.fm have developed a way of tagging and […]

October 16th, 2006

DRM is killing music

My wife has a licence from British Dressage to put together CDs for her dressage to music tests. British Dressage pay Phonographic Performance Limited a small fortune each year to grant their members this privilege.
But DRM doesn’t respect our rights to take tracks that we have paid for, and that we have a licence to […]

October 12th, 2006

Vorsprung Durch Technik,Rückwärts Durch Gesetz

“To date, Nasa have filed 6,509 patents.”
“To get to the A6, Audi have filed 9,621 patents”.
So when you buy an Audi you’re not paying for engineering or qualIty. You’re paying for expensive patent lawyers.
Thanks for the warning.

October 7th, 2006

Cover Girl

Kennel Meet
Puk made it onto the homepage of the hunt. She’s easy to spot amongst the chestnuts and bays.

September 29th, 2006

How many planets do You need?

Thanks to Andy for bringing this to our attention. Click on the image to see how many you need.

May 18th, 2006

One Less Plane

Let’s all just forget One Less Car for a second.
Aviation is the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions in the world, and exempt from any limits.
Can you spot what’s wrong with this quote about the Airbus A380?
“It’s an efficient and clean and environmentally friendly aircraft, and it has lower fuel consumption per seat, and produces […]

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