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Yearly Archives: 2004
FLAC – 'Free Lossless Audio Codec' – is a way of making sound files smaller without losing any of the content (unlike, say, MP3 which throws away information to help reduce the size in the hope that you can't hear … Continue reading
Peanut butter – it's brown, sticky and tastes horrible. What's the only conclusion? Peanut butter is poo! Peanut butter is poo! Peanut butter is poo!
I liked the film, so I'm tempted now it's transferred and you can actually get a ticket… … but it features Jane Asher, and whatever you think about her cake cooking abilities, she simply can't act. I've seen her in … Continue reading
.. the tube map for people who can't do stairs… (Speaking of the South London one, is Tunbridge Wells really as far out as Amersham?) … Continue reading
Coming up to a set of traffic lights, this hideous blue box of a three-door hatchback zooms past, a bit too close for my liking. It's a G-reg (Americans: about fifteen years old) with custom exhaust and various other 'vroom-vroom' … Continue reading
… but DVD sales do. Nice to have a report that suggests I'm right 🙂 even if – unsurprisingly – the music industry don't like it. … Continue reading
.. said Patricia Hewitt – after they'd lost it. Must be a new meaning to the word 'dominate'… Congratulations to the LibDem campaign which resulted in the first ethnic minority MP for the party since Dadabhai Naoroji in 1892. [The … Continue reading
The top google hit for 'turkey "amnesty international"' is their 2002 report on the country – "Thousands of prisoners were held in conditions of prolonged isolation which could amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment [..] The pressure on human … Continue reading
.. the 'SM' film shot in an abandoned warehouse before she was famous, I can say "Don't bother!" The quality is awful – if the director hadn't kept saying 'Cameron' all the time, you'd never know it was her. Mind … Continue reading