Children gather around – do you know why a PC is called a PC? It’s a Personal Computer. It means that once upon a time we used ‘dumb terminals’ connected to a server, and that’s where the applications were stored. You would ‘time share’ on the ‘mainframe’. We got rid of that shit. It was [...]
Entries from June 2008
…and while we are talking losers – No!
June 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
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Cavalcade of Losers.
June 29th, 2008 · Comments Off
Joel Stein at Time.com wrote:
Skwerl, 27, is in a punk band and used to work for Universal Music. Now he works for a Web marketing company. “Among my friends, I’m the guy known for getting things no one can get,” he says. “I’m just that rabid for information.” Skwerls are the people who make the [...]
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FORM 774B REVIEW AUSTRALIAN POPULAR PERFORMER
June 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
Note. Use the 774A form for classical or operatic performer.
Visual arts requires form 775.
Before completing this form ensure that you are describing a musical performer currently under contract to an approved international musical label and/or publisher.
Attach original copies of supportive evidence to the form as appropriate.
It was great to see insert name of Australian [...]
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Supposing you defined an MPEG standard and nobody came
June 15th, 2008 · Comments Off
It’s 1AM and these thoughts have to go somewhere before I forget.
Item: I am hearing about mechanisms for storage which is all very good, but what we need is a mechanism for retrieval. We already have people busy storing. Squirrels. Nuts. Buy all the hard drives you want guys – that’s half the problem. Something [...]
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Goose lays egg.
June 12th, 2008 · Comments Off
I laid my thesis. As in, version 1.0. Like the very ending of Portnoy’s Complaint, the psychiatrist says, ‘now we can begin’.
A new subsection of this site will carry the journey onwards. Because, having done it, I now know what I want to do.
Comedy. They had sent me an email saying there was severe penalties [...]
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Internet is worse than Television
June 7th, 2008 · Comments Off
Television, drug of the nation… the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy once sang in less complex times. Obviously television is BAD because powerful people control it and it only works one way, they make it and you watch it. It is electronic methadone, it makes you sleepy and it makes you passive and it makes [...]
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Archaic album madness eruption
June 1st, 2008 · Comments Off
Crazed scenes in the House of Disorder as a crate of Adenoids arrives at the same time as metal cased Albums lie about in various states of construction. Imagine two record fairs mounted on the backs of trucks colliding at speed. I don’t think there’s been this many LPs in this house in decades. The [...]
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