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January 18th, 2007
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 […]
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December 21st, 2006
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 […]
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December 18th, 2006
Photo courtesy Vale of Lune
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November 12th, 2006
Photo courtesy Vale of Lune
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 […]
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October 27th, 2006
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 […]
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October 16th, 2006
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 […]
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October 12th, 2006
“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.
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October 7th, 2006
Kennel Meet
Puk made it onto the homepage of the hunt. She’s easy to spot amongst the chestnuts and bays.
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September 29th, 2006
Thanks to Andy for bringing this to our attention. Click on the image to see how many you need.
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May 18th, 2006
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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The things we listen to are occasionally logged on Last.fm

New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
It doesn't update from the wheels of steel though :-)
Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.

in no particular order...

For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.

Singletrack

The Outcast

Dirt Rag

Bike
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
sometimes you just gotta take action, or at least be able to get our hands on the FACTS