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2010 looms. Playtime is over.
Regretfully I must now commence a four year stint in the research army. Called up, given a rifle, sent off to battle the foe. The letter came a few weeks ago and it grimly sets out the conditions under which research will take place:

You must spend 35 hours a week researching. [...]

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It being Christmas and all that I am going to try end this entry on a positive note. I promise. We do have to start in a deep pool of bilge because that’s what the Internet is made of.
Another few months brings another half arsed special about piracy care of The Inquirer. All the usual [...]

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Like all good ranters I have a few preset rants that I keep ready for Xmas, public hangings, fêtes and the like. One favourite is about Kurt Cobain, darling of the 90’s moppet, uncle of emo and man enough to marry Courtney Love. Cobain was the assassin of the last dregs of 80’s music culture, [...]

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A gasp has gone out around the Academic Fashion Scene with the announcement that BRUTALIST U are bringing FRANK GEHRY in to design their new Fun House. BRUTALIST are of course best known for owning the ugliest building contemplated by the mind of man – the Dark Tower otherwise known as The Vertical Slum, Elevator [...]

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Warning. If you’re not interested in disc authoring then pass on by.
TV around the world is divided up in incompatible regions. America has 30 frames per second (mangled to 29.97 because of the NTSC colour system). Civilised parts of the world use PAL at 25 frames a second. In film they still use 24 frames [...]

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I just bought an EMS VCS3 for twenty bucks.
You were momentarily excited – actually I bought a virtual instrument which is decorated with a front panel similar to an EMS. Sonically, I got my twenty bucks. Because it doesn’t matter what the damn thing looks like when it comes to the sound. But we fools [...]

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