Ellard

The USA version of ShowbagHD has bogged down into trench warfare as the main programme refuses to be encoded. I’ve spent every spare moment this week (hah) loading the AVI into some encoder or other, changing settings and waiting 8 hours for the results. It’s not as bad as sending Super-8 film off to be [...]

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For some time there have been things that have pissed me off, yet in denouncing these things I have often failed to translate my personal distrust into a coherent, communicable reason for such curmudgeonly thinking. Although you wouldn’t know it, I’ve been held back by the worry that I’m quite possibly just an old git [...]

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Here’s the details.
The old man had a stroke about a year and a half ago. Because the Australian public health service is fantastic they cleared the blood clot in about 2 hours from the emergency call. No hemiplegia, although he shuffles. He has problems remembering many things, and gets irritable like you would if half [...]

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A far reaching poll of both the publishers and editors of the Sydney Morning Herald has confirmed that which the paper has reported for some time: constant belligerent press coverage of the Labor prime minister has eroded his popularity.
Said one editor, “It’s hard to fathom how this mealy mouthed lying son of a bitch KRudd [...]

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Alas
The birds fall silent and dismayed
The clouds gather dark and listless
The rivers congeal, their sparkle gone
The heavy air will no longer fill our lungs
Men lean haggard, whispering, fumbling their feet
Pro Tools HD has been hardware cracked.
Look upon the ruins of Avid, ye mighty, and despair.

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FIRST OF ALL – HAVE A GIFT! THE SECOND HALF OF OVER BARBARA ISLAND IS NOW AVAILABLE! READ THE FOLLOWING GARBAGE WHILE IT DOWNLOADS.
Glasnost spills across the virtual western world – open letters are opening up openly each opening yet another 1000 flowers of open-mindedness about … well … openness! Yes, we all opine on [...]

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Jed worked at Landis Music back in the early 80s. He sold pianos, and increasingly synthesisers. Jed was the man who found me a whole KORG MS modular system for $250. That immediately places him in Master of the Universe status.
Up on the wall was a picture of Jed in white tuxedo with a white [...]

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Attention Cyber Digital Artists!
You are invited to CONTROL 2010: an exclusive symposium to be held Friday – Sunday in NYC next week.
Courtesy of Apple we’ll be touting the new iPad.
But there’ll be plenty of other REAL  KNOB ACTION.
Some of the talks on offer over the first day:

DJ Skewl will patch the iPad to send a [...]

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Gosh gee willikers! How time flies when you’re servicing high interest debt! The Big Bigot album was released 24 years ago, and the last time it was remastered is now 11 years ago! Now it’s time for Bigot to leave sevcom and join its friends over in the UK on the LTM ‘more memories than [...]

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Yooooooohooooooooo!
Remember me? Don’t pretend! That’s right – I’m your BODY and you can think all you like but you aren’t going ANYWHERE without me. I’m with you your whole life, cradle to grave – and you can PRAY TO GOD about not needing me afterwards – but that’s not likely now is it?
No, you and [...]

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