Comedy RED camera viral
Of interest to anyone who has spent time in post production...
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Be Internet - Be my friend and save £24 on the connection fee
I use Be Internet, the Unlimited package at £18 per month. It's not amazing but it's probably as fast as I'll get with our old wiring, and nothing appears blocked (unlike all round broadband horrors talktalk and their p2p blocking). There are also plans afoot with the BPI and at least Virgin Internet and BT regarding file sharing, so be aware who you use.
Be has been a geek favourite for a while, and although the Bulgarian helpline is dire, and the speeds vary wildly from the ludicrously fast speeds I was promised, it isn't bad. And besides, if you sign up as my friend, you get the connection fee waived, and I get a free month. And I like free things. All I'd need is your email, and you know, we can send each other Christmas cards, write cheery messages on each others facebook walls, perhaps I could feed your cats when you're on holiday.. and who knows, maybe one day we'll be Godparents to each others' kids....something like that. Just drop me a message if you fancy it. =)
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Seeking data housekeeping Nirvana...
Little plug here for Alsoft Disk Warrior. My not-very-old 500GB lacie eXtreme drive recently stopped mounting on my MacBookPro. If I fired up Disk Utility, it could see the drive but couldn't fix it's errors.
DiskWarrior however set to the task with with enthusiasm, and even gave me a delightfully detailed log as a PDF about what nasties it fixed. So much cheaper than a new Lacie!
Another top tip for Mac users, I am on a mission at the moment to sanitise my data; mp3s, video, work projects, photos, personal files and so on. Put them all in neat centralised places, no stray files, everything neat and tidy and easy to find!
Part of the solution was a new 120GB portable drive to consolidate and separate out my music collection. I have found two useful tools in this quest.
One is called The Godfather (Windows) and is a typically ugly programmer-designed bit of software that can re-tag and re-arrange your music. I only used it to grab all my files and put them sensibly in Artist/Album/ folders, although I suspect it could do so much more.
This has lead to what must be a universal conundrum How do you handle "various artist" albums in your music collection? Now, I am struggling here, so suggestions are welcome. I have moved my various albums into a folder called just that, thereby reducing the mass of top level artist folders, but, I still have a royal mess in my media player when viewing the artists list. How do I quickly avoid this? I don't care to see artists with one song in my collection... ideas please?
OK, last top Mac tip. I forgot that my new portable drive would be formatted as NTFS by default (which OS X doesn't want to write to..). Damn, but no matter, I found this NTFS-3g driver, which gives me full read/write/modify on the Windows formatted disk.
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Back in time web design
I just love this site
A 1996 original.
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Brighton Banjo! Brighton Bluegrass!
.. and lots of other search engine friendly terms! This is because I have been wanting to find friends to share my love of old time and bluegrass music with in Brighton.
It took me a year to find an old time jam at the Horse and Groom in Hanover, which was sadly the last of the season as it was helmed by old timey locals Chicken Shed Zeppelin who were too busy in the summer to continue.
Anyway, during that one session I aquired myself a banjo teacher! Should anyone out there in the local area require some tutition, or indeed need some expert banjo fixing or setup, please drop me a mail and I can put you in touch.
Indeed, it would still be nice to meet some more musicians or fans, so if you like a bit of Americana, or are a folky fan of string instruments, say hello!
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