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Archive for December, 2011

Gah.. Signs that you’re getting old..

Tonight I found a very old VHS tape. Billy was intrigued. I went in the loft, found the video player and then spent 10 minutes explaining to my son that the tape was “open”. I think he expected something smaller ;)

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Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel

This Armand Van Helden mix, if it gets a proper release, is going to be massive. He uses some bits I’ve heard in earlier mixes but I can’t put my finger on which one… OK, it seems to be about a year old, but it’s still epic..

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The SOPA thing

A lot of this is getting blown out of proportion. There’s many things that can be done before a website is removed from DNS, but wait.. We should be aware of something… Have you seen petrol prices recently? Bad aren’t they? Do you know what happens with pricing on that ? It goes up a [...]

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You dirty pirate

Have you been downloading stuff you shouldn’t have ? This site will tell you whether you have, and no, it’s not a fake.. http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/

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Christmas time!

Don’t ever send family photos out as Christmas cards, else you could end up on this page. Oh my lord..

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We need more people like this. Well done pal/

Let’s sum this up shall we. Some oik didn’t pay for his train ticket. The ticket guy told him to pay the fine or get off. The geezer tells him that he’s not going to do either of these things so, despite being asked several times and holding up an entire train load of people, [...]

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The UK in Europe

Nigek Farage in European parliament today… I don’t often get political, but…

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Someone is actually building this…

..yes, I’m thinking the same thing you’re thinking. More here..

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Daz Willot from back in the day..

Oh my lord. I’ve just found this on the interwebs. It’s Daz Willot from May 1991 in bloody Shelleys, Stoke. Prepare for incredibly iffy sound quality (TDK D90 anyone?).. it is 21 years ago after all …. I remember this being the coolest thing ever. Lovin the shout-outs, “Big up Rob from Hanley!” Epic.. :) [...]

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ADSL Speed tests are arse..

This is why those speed test sites should be ignored. These two tests were done 30 seconds apart. Same server, same ISP, same everything. The truth is, if you get bucket loss of people downloading bucket loads of data there will be contention, which means rubbish results which should never be believed. Test 1, around [...]

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