The graphics and all are great, sorry if it looks like I'm whinging, trying to get the best out of you!
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 27 11:12:31 2002
OOOOOH! New site! New site! New Site: http://www.rowanboy.co.uk
rowanboy
- Fri Sep 27 10:27:24 2002
He could bike it. (Unlikely though eh John??)
rowanboy
- Fri Sep 27 10:05:51 2002
I searched for beanbag: http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/commerce/command/ExecMacro/ols-plst.d2w/report?type=Product
rowanboy
- Fri Sep 27 10:05:08 2002
Camper is on the road and the perfect machine for hauling huge lumps of amp about. Will John heed a lift to your gaff or do you live within walking distance?
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 26 21:11:27 2002
Rob and John - you both have my numbers don't you? I have yours now rob, thanks to 'awkins. :-)
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 26 18:38:18 2002
The keyboard can be midi-ed up, so we can do drums and stuff.
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 26 18:37:31 2002
I've got a couple of guitars, but only one amp, so you'll need something at least. I've got a keyboard for john to play ;-) Guys - do you need a lift (can't remember whether your camper is on teh road or not??)
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 26 18:36:46 2002
Of bile.
John
- Thu Sep 26 17:45:40 2002
Or alternatively throwing up a waterfall.
John
- Thu Sep 26 17:45:13 2002
If writing a PhD thesis is like rowing up a waterfall, then I feel like someone's just dammed the river.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 26 16:04:57 2002
John, I'm sure you're more than welcome to join us. We'll find something for you to play. I'll teach you some RATM, Bullet in the Head is really cool to play.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 26 14:46:32 2002
I have a 60W (quite small) amp with a 12" internal and a 15" external wired directly onto the main output bridge.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 26 14:37:51 2002
Mine does stereo.
dsp
- Thu Sep 26 14:31:11 2002
Aha - trouble is, his bass was whacked up so high all the treble was totally wiped out. He needed a couple more sub woofers on his optiplex. Will that do?
John
- Thu Sep 26 14:16:56 2002
If only I had a music technology equivalent of going round corners in third gear...
John
- Thu Sep 26 14:15:53 2002
Tom-me-ole-boy, what rig have you got at your gaff? Do I just need to bring me axes or should I bring amplification too?
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 26 12:28:59 2002
Tom, sorry I forgot about your text message last night. I've just sent you an email though...
John
- Thu Sep 26 09:11:37 2002
I can probably make early evening now... supervising Bronze Duke of Edinburg award in Amersham area!
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 25 23:51:15 2002
Update: Sunday evening is A-OK :-)
rowanboy
- Wed Sep 25 17:19:37 2002
Damn. Thursday is broken - Thames cruise you know - but Sunday *should* be fine. Brilliant! A chance to test out Cubasis 3.0! :-)
Rowanboy
- Wed Sep 25 16:29:43 2002
I'm sort of free Thursday (if John has decided not to go and get pissed in Goring) and sort of free Sunday (but in the evening). Sound good?
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 25 14:37:22 2002
God YEAH! Great Idea. We could put John on pots and pans!
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 25 14:34:50 2002
Rob, do you want to come round for a jam sometime?
rowanboy
- Wed Sep 25 11:35:48 2002
Queen is a fine band. I think some of the greatest music out there was written by Rage Against the Machine. When it cam eot shoe-horning in loads of different, well constructed riffs into one song they were the ones to do it. A song like 'Wake Up' would be split by a lesser band into four songs, but not Rage.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 25 10:58:01 2002
I like The Strokes a lot, and I guess from an objective point of view Queen are possibly the best band ever... However, In my very narrow minded opinion Turin Brakes are currently the absolute most bestestest. I guess it's partly just the new band syndrome. Older more establishd bands always seem to embark on a systematic process of alienating their fans either by producing really obscure "genre defining" albums (i.e. Radiohead), not producing any more albums at all (i.e. Portishead) or just plain splitting up (that would be Rage Against The Machine). It's just self, self, self with some musicians.
John
- Wed Sep 25 09:28:52 2002
Tremor? 1Am you say? AH. I *did* have bad wind the other night...
rowanboy
- Wed Sep 25 08:42:14 2002
I just now noticed the message about the greatest band ever. I must weigh in. I've never heard Turin. I've heard some Deftones and somewhat enjoy their tune "Change". However, the band pales in comparison to Depeche Mode (which they cover) and all other bands pale in comparison to Queen. There are, alas, few good new bands...at least in the US. The Strokes is one I can think of.
Travis
- Tue Sep 24 19:33:19 2002
We'll all end up writing in XHTML 2, but then, why not? Looks FUNKY.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 24 14:28:34 2002
There is dodgy plumbing and there is dodgy plumbing, John!!! I hate to think what you're plumbings like if you think that there is an earthquake going off everyt ime it rattles! Madness...
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 24 11:03:38 2002
What does Arnold Schwarzenegger say before a game of chess? I'll be black!
John
- Tue Sep 24 10:15:05 2002
Hey did anyone else feel the earthquake in the early hours of yesterday morning? It was about 1AM. I could definitely feel it, although at first I thought it was just dodgy plumbing. A bit spooky as I'd just jokingly mentioned feeling a tremor a day or two prior (look further down the board if you don't believe me!).
John
- Tue Sep 24 09:53:08 2002
You madman! And you're up already! And you don't even have to be! Crazy!
John
- Tue Sep 24 09:34:24 2002
Ahhhh, mate, you'll never believe what happened last night. I was passing the Fez (en route) and thought, fuckit and went in! I got home at 3!!! Madness. Feel totally revived this morning: ready for some ass-kicking work! Not much of a hangover, I danced the alcohol out of me.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 24 09:27:56 2002
Ooooohhhh hangover. But not such a bad one, comparatively. I went about an almost military operation of drinking water pints and pints of before going to bed. It seemed to help.
John
- Tue Sep 24 09:23:36 2002
Monkey!
dsp
- Mon Sep 23 17:32:34 2002
I've just bought ellis-o-matic.com and its-really-anoying-because.com
dsp
- Mon Sep 23 17:32:09 2002
But I live in Trewithick.
John
- Mon Sep 23 16:12:05 2002
Remember - Pangbourne is a NICE place. be NICE to the old ladies.
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 23 15:17:17 2002
Just out of interest, I also have a Turin Breaks CD that my sister bought me. Tis V good. I shall go and stick it on now.
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 23 15:16:43 2002
Well balls to the future, let us do it tonight!!!
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 23 15:16:16 2002
It's verrrrrrr nice. I can make lovely food, and there's a number of entertaining ways in which we can get rascally drunk.
John
- Mon Sep 23 14:36:14 2002
Fair enough. Rob would you like to come over for dinner some time (I promise I won't use it as an excuse to destroy you!). You haven't seen my new abode yet have you?
John
- Mon Sep 23 14:35:16 2002
I disagree. I like deftones in particular at the moment. Destroy me, sucker.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 23 14:27:38 2002
At the weekend I was mostly listening to Turin Brakes. I have decided they are the best band in the world. You must all agree or BE DESTROYED! Thanks.
John
- Mon Sep 23 13:27:21 2002
At the weekend I was mostly listening to Turin Brakes. I have decided they are the best band in the world. You must all agree or BE DESTROYED! Thanks.
John
- Mon Sep 23 13:27:10 2002
I suspect that was me, but I don't know how.
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 23 08:27:04 2002
- Sun Sep 22 23:35:21 2002
No. But the minor powersurge probably blacked out pangbourne for a while...
rowanboy
- Sun Sep 22 23:34:19 2002
You didn't turn them on around 8ish did you Tom? I felt a minor earth tremor then.
John
- Sat Sep 21 23:23:06 2002
I spent all day building a rack for my Unix boxes. I'm quite scared as to what will happen when I power them up... will the vibrations trash the rack????
rowanboy
- Sat Sep 21 18:53:00 2002
That guy was SO generous. He invited us twice. Actually, that really doesn't instill faith in his HTML ability if he can't post sensibly. I'll shut up actually.
rowanboy
- Sat Sep 21 18:51:29 2002
Yes. Are you?
rowanboy
- Sat Sep 21 18:50:26 2002
ARE YOU LOCAL?
John
- Fri Sep 20 20:01:50 2002
I'm so impressed that you condescend to invite us lowly mortals to your service which you have selflessly provided for free. If only the internet was mad up of more people like you, I could certainly sleep more comfortably at night.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 20 16:31:21 2002
Thankyou for making it free, no, that is REALLY generous. You're making it free for me to give you my intellectual property. You're really not going to charge me for that? Wow!That's really generous. Well done.
John
- Fri Sep 20 15:45:19 2002
Wow, that's original, free to register. A phpBB no doubt? Good lord, that IS original. I've not seem a million of those with 3 members and 9 posts.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 20 15:35:22 2002
Why not visit The Creative Writing Board at http://writing.proboards12.com to share your poems, song lyrics and stories with others, or just read others. You will need to register if you want to post your work, but it's FREE to register!
David MC
- Fri Sep 20 15:33:36 2002
Why not visit The Creative Writing Board at http://writing.proboards12.com to share your poems, song lyrics and stories with others, or just read others. You will need to register if you want to post your work, but it's FREE to register!
David MC
- Fri Sep 20 15:33:17 2002
"Carry On, Carry On, you've got nothing to loose. You've dirtied your pants and you can't afford shoes. So stand up and fight and stand up for your right and dance to the music that nobody likes!!!"
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 20 14:20:51 2002
Oh yes. When I saw that book (in the annual search for your Birthday prezzie) I knew it was for you. I knew that there wasn't anything else out there that I could possibly buy you that was better. It was perfect. I'm glad you're getting so much use out of it!!!
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 20 12:33:45 2002
Rob, did you read my latest comments on the shaking hands article? It is quite spooky! P.S. thanks again for that book - it's been great!
John
- Fri Sep 20 11:23:03 2002
What about Geoff the Drug Selling Giraffe. Doing deals in 100 acre wood. There's only one decent character in winnie the pooh, the rest are crap. Except perhaps the manic depressive donkey.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 19 10:12:03 2002
Clearly you never read the unexpurgated versions of the Winnie the Pooh stories then; there's Malevolence the kitten, Belligerence the rhinoceros, and Brian, a talking carrot. (Man those are all hard words to spell).
John
- Thu Sep 19 09:22:05 2002
I named my systems after Winnie the Pooh characters. But now I've run out of names!!!
rowanboy
- Wed Sep 18 21:12:37 2002
Well at least it's all fixed now Rob. Sounds liked the sort of thing that would probably flummox me too. I'm currently having trouble with my modem at home, and have to more or less completely reinstall it every time I use it, which is a pain. This is not helped by the really unintuitive settings - I seem to be able to change settings for my modem in about eight different places, sometimes corresponding to the same settings, sometimes different settings that happen to have the same name. By the way, are your other servers/workstations called Mikael, Joseph and Vladimir...? (Does anyone know Lenin's first name?). I wish I owned enough PCs to network them together and have a jovial naming scheme for them. There's not a great deal of point when you've only got two, one of which is about as networkable as a hair dryer, or perhaps even less so. I guess if it's been managed for fridges, it won't be long before hair dryers, vaccuum cleaners and ice cream makers all have IP stacks. Errrr, what was my original point?
John
- Wed Sep 18 14:43:21 2002
I wish you'd all use Yahoo, like the rest of us right-thinking people.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 18 14:29:32 2002
No John, it was a case of Boris (house server) was not assigning IPs, so my machine was not getting one and could not log onto the network. By manually setting the IP, I could get onto the network. We then reset Boris and return it to automatic IP setting and it all worked nicely. Boris had been running for over 180 days and had done well. We gave it a rest. For about 10 seconds.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 18 14:26:43 2002
Actually I'd like it if Tom installed AOL Instant Messenger, as I'm stalking him, but don't have the free hard disk space to install Yahoo or MSN. Thanks.
A mystery stalker person
- Wed Sep 18 13:56:12 2002
Were the few words "is the cable plugged in"...?
John
- Wed Sep 18 12:00:30 2002
Tom! Cheers mate, I'd love to come. You know you're getting old when your mates are getting married.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 18 11:06:31 2002
john, if ur gonna encourage tom to use a messanger can u make it msn, cos i too would like to know when he is online, but cant be assed to install yahoo messanger.....cheers
Chris Rowan
- Wed Sep 18 10:02:33 2002
I'd just like to say that Byrn is the network god. I've spent 3 days debugging my network settings and byrn walks in to say a few words and it works. Hurrah.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 17 21:31:55 2002
It's clearly under destruction.
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 19:18:15 2002
Right. This is sort of an invite. To those I know (this being a website and all...) YOu'll get a proper one anyway. http://www.4thapril2003.info/
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 19:17:40 2002
What I meant is, which would you prefer?
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 18:47:10 2002
Could do!
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 18:42:25 2002
Tom, I'm at home now. Do you use yahoo messenger or anything like that? It could be handy to know when you're online, etc...
John
- Tue Sep 17 18:38:28 2002
Rob, if you've got nothing better to do, you could always put Chie in the banner... Or tell me to piss off...
John
- Tue Sep 17 17:37:34 2002
Cheers tim. Much appreciated. Traffic outside uni is appaulling at the moment so am going to sit here and waste an hour. No change there.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 17 17:31:21 2002
Ahh yeah I see your point, not exactly a lot safer than driving. Just less illegal really. Perhaps.
John
- Tue Sep 17 17:18:55 2002
John: Ooooh. Temptation to ride my bike, whilst drunk, along the BUSY A340. Um....
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 17:13:32 2002
Secretly though, you did. The first time I tried uploading my FTP client bizarrely said "Message from Sysop: Hi John!", shortly after which the connection failed.
John
- Tue Sep 17 17:02:13 2002
John: Yes got the uplaod thank you very much. Though I had to fight the imense temptation to kick you off whilst you were uploading. (Evil Tim would have)
dsp
- Tue Sep 17 16:52:51 2002
Rob: I am heavily impressed with the updated Flash site. Love it.
dsp
- Tue Sep 17 16:51:53 2002
Got a bike Tom? We could oddly meet at the Greyhound in Tidmarsh or something.
John
- Tue Sep 17 16:18:01 2002
It is with the utmost nerdy satisfaction that I announce an update to 1Mbit Internet in the Rowan household. As of about, ooh, 1 min ago. IT SEEMS TO ROCK SOMEWHAT.
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 16:11:12 2002
Ok. But I can't drive. ;-)
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 16:10:02 2002
I have been trying to post that last message for the past twenty minutes. Bloody CGI timeouts.
John
- Tue Sep 17 15:55:11 2002
If only I could assist... However I'm at work for the next two hours. I'm free from 5:30 though...?
John
- Tue Sep 17 15:54:37 2002
Event Horizon passed. HOWEVER - Returned home as Barmaid started to look presentable.... MMMMMMM. Beer in fridge.
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 17 15:17:31 2002
Tim - did you get the upload OK....?
John
- Tue Sep 17 14:43:17 2002
I have managed to make my PC utterly crash (as in, totally reset itself) five times so far today. Not even a blue screen first. This is not what I would class as a good morning.
John
- Tue Sep 17 12:26:24 2002
Oh yeah, and I like the weblog archives, john-boy. NICE!
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 17 11:01:13 2002
Done a few improvements to my flash neural network on me page. Let me know what you fink!
It's fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wide accountancy. To find, explore, the funds off shore and skirt the shoals of the bankrupcy. It can be manly in insurance, we'll lock your premiums semi-annually. It's all tax-deductable, we're fairly incorruptable, we're sailing on the wide accountancy!
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 17 11:00:15 2002
Tim - all done! I hope they all uploaded OK... My connection is so poor!
John
- Mon Sep 16 21:08:38 2002
Rowanboy: upload those pictures!
John
- Mon Sep 16 18:00:44 2002
Alternatively, I can set up shell accounts on a Unix box in the near future (just rebuilding one now)...
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 16 15:24:14 2002
Perhaps someone should set up some kind of http-to-anything-you-like type proxy....
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 16 15:23:25 2002
Tim, I will give it a go. The problem is our firewall stops me FTPing from work, and my connection from home is piss poor and miserably slow... But I will try!
John
- Mon Sep 16 14:19:13 2002
I keep all my psds!!! I'll look into squeezing Chie in! :)
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 16 13:57:32 2002
John, yes there's one there for you.
dsp
- Mon Sep 16 12:51:35 2002
Tim: about once a week normally... Let me know if there is something waiting for me, and I'll check it right away.
John
- Mon Sep 16 12:43:41 2002
Nice one JH. Get to it Rob!!
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 16 12:35:01 2002
John are you still checking you sbu email?
dsp
- Mon Sep 16 12:19:11 2002
Rob. Girls. Do you still have the original layered version of the lovely 'maison banner you did? Can you squeeze some girls in there? It would be really nice to get a picture of Chie in for a start... There's clearly thousands of pictures of her on the web (poignant because her name actually means thousand pictures), either go to my pictures page, or her site - chiesan.com.
John
- Mon Sep 16 10:44:14 2002
After all these years... Finally someone we don't know leaving a positive comment about the site on the board... All I need now is to develop a deep and meaningful relationship with Kylie and I can die happy.
John
- Mon Sep 16 09:51:49 2002
We enjoyed visiting your site. We've bookmarked it for future visits. Keep up the nice work :-) Thank-you.
Tom <currency@mintmark.com>
Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America - Mon Sep 16 00:50:31 2002
Colin has taste. I'm getting one of those.
rowanboy
- Sun Sep 15 20:18:57 2002
John: By about 15:00 I was ok.... and by 18:00 I had a beer in my hand. N I C E! Pictures will be online shortly... although I suspect I shall regret it.
rowanboy
- Sun Sep 15 20:18:34 2002
Oh! You've got it.
On a complete tangent, here's Colin Brunger's picture from Friends Reunited!
dsp
- Sun Sep 15 17:24:50 2002
I wonder if Tom has recovered from last night yet...?
John
- Sat Sep 14 17:17:42 2002
Here it is Tim:
John
- Sat Sep 14 13:36:05 2002
John: What does the mug look like? (photo please)
dsp
- Sat Sep 14 11:08:05 2002
That should really read placeS.
John
- Fri Sep 13 15:43:35 2002
Mugs.
My work mug has been chipped in two place over the last week or so, and all the varnish has gone off it, despite surviving about five years prior to that completely unscathed. Tim: I borrowed a mug from you (not the same one) about five or six years ago for an afternoon. I've still got it. Would you like it back?
John
- Fri Sep 13 15:30:55 2002
John: You still up for drinks tonight?
rowanboy
- Fri Sep 13 10:12:30 2002
Like ti graf, you could spend hours watching those!
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 14:04:40 2002
Have you all seen weebl and bob? It's at http://www.weebls-stuff.com/pie. Oh and you will need sound.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Thu Sep 12 13:33:02 2002
Duct Tape Guys. Purely wonderful.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 12:31:52 2002
Oh, the slag has arisen :) And it was generally thought that as the attacks occurred at (around) 9:11 AM (Eastern Time, where New York is) on 9/11 as we Americans say, that it was all planned, as a sort of mockery or something like that.
Travis
- Thu Sep 12 12:00:53 2002
I understood what you wrote and I see that I sort of launched into the middle of a thought without any background. One can generally be a Christian and believe in all the ethos that accompany that thought but still be pressed to one's wit's end and then go about killing. One is then loosely a Christian. If Christians don't kill, who were crusaders? Certainly, in 'loose talk', Christians kill.
Travis
- Thu Sep 12 11:59:09 2002
Third time lucky. :)
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 11:14:08 2002
This is mad, mad and cool, cool and mad. At the same time. Yes.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 11:13:53 2002
This is mad, mad and cool, cool and mad. At the same time. Yes.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 11:13:46 2002
This is mad, mad and cool, cool and mad. At the same time. Yes.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 11:13:34 2002
It's says: bollocks to working, let's go down the pub for a pint. Of course, it's only a rough translation.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 11:10:41 2002
It's only a hunch, but does it say beer?
John
- Thu Sep 12 11:08:25 2002
An encryption challenge for you...
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 12 10:07:07 2002
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beer man
- Thu Sep 12 10:06:30 2002
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- Thu Sep 12 10:06:22 2002
I heard an American guy yesterday on Radio 4 refer to the events of last year as 9/11. (I guess we would say 11/9 over here right?).. but anyways, 911 is the American emergency service telephone number. This made me think that perhaps that was part of the plan. Then again, probably not.
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 12 09:52:05 2002
John: tom.rowan@securityalchemy.net
rowanboy
- Thu Sep 12 09:48:34 2002
We can all slag Travis off for a while, he doesn't get up for another 3 hours. The lazy bastard.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 09:43:39 2002
Nice clarification, John. NICE. But you are a Oylmpic gold medal winner. So you're lying about being a liar. You won gold in 'Nerd 400m'.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 09:42:26 2002
Travis, I'm not sure if you interpreted what I was saying in the right way - my point was that an individual who kills may say they're a jew, christian, muslim or whatever, but they're not actually. It's like those "vegetarians" that still eat chicken. They may say they're a vegetarian, but they're clearly not in reality. A true follower of an Abrahamic faith (which my father informs me is the catch all term for judaism, christianity and islam) would not kill - it's a principle that is fundamental to all those religions. They all tend to go on the premise that only their god (or Jehovah or Allah) has the right to give life and take life away. I may say I'm an Olympic gold medal winner, but it's clearly untrue. It's a similar black and white issue for me, to say you are a follower of a given religion you really need to follow the rules that religion lays down, at least the really important ones. If you don't, you're lying to everyone, yourself included.
John
- Thu Sep 12 09:18:37 2002
Travis, you get everywhere, don't you? Warning everyone: I know this fool, he's educated and a europhile!!! welcome abouard, T-boy. :)
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 12 09:15:27 2002
I was trying to come up with a reasoned answer to that last post, but I'm too p**ed. Goodnight america, wherever you are.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Thu Sep 12 01:41:54 2002
Christians and Muslims don't go around killing people? Then who does? Certainly, in the loose manner of speaking, Christians and Muslims...and humans...do go around killing. If you want to speak in strict terms, then it could be argued that humans do not 'murder' because to do so is irrational and humans are, by definition, rational. In the loose manner of speaking, one might be a Lawyer but that doesn't mean that at every second of one's life he or she is being a lawyer. Ahh, this place needed some American input :)
Travis <trodgers@ptd.net>
USA, - Wed Sep 11 19:44:41 2002
How good am I. Have had a total programming day and managed to write a fully cusomisable Markovian chain generator for my little program, Raih. How good is that? I didn't know what Markovian chains were yesterday!
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 11 14:59:19 2002
Nice Mr. Lang, nice!
John
- Wed Sep 11 14:08:54 2002
Fair point, Johnny. I am building up for one.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 11 13:48:48 2002
Tom, give me an email address and I'll give you an author account on the 'maison weblog. Go on, you know you want to. Rob, it's been a while since your last posting... I can't believe you don't have anything to say...?!?
John
- Wed Sep 11 12:54:57 2002
Oooooh danger of serious conversation. Fundamentalists? Fundamentalist what? They certainly were not muslims, in the same way Oliver Cromwell was not a christian. Christians and Muslims don't go round killing people, it's a fairly basic prerequisite of being either, really.
John
- Wed Sep 11 12:20:21 2002
One year ago today, the fundamentalists showed their hand and angered one of the most dangerous beasts of the modern world.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 11 11:37:16 2002
Yes Rob. I've got loads of space here for huge output dumps.
rowanboy
- Tue Sep 10 17:07:39 2002
I'm fascinated by the International Space Station. Here's how far they've got:
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 10 14:40:42 2002
I'm fascinated by the International Space Station. Here's how far they've got: I check this site daily. It's brilliant.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 10 14:40:25 2002
Sorry, I missed this one earlier, Tom said: "alternatively, come round here when you want to do a big download :-) ". Fnar Fnar.
Rob
- Mon Sep 9 14:54:06 2002
Need work.... aaaargh! *dying sound*
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 9 13:56:01 2002
If you're feeling rich, the terratec Sounsystem dmx 6Fire LT http://www.dabs.com/terratec/terratec.asp for £102 has a digital optical input thingy on it. It's meant to be pretty good too :)
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Mon Sep 9 12:57:26 2002
Right.. got one.... Lets see if that will work. Cheers John.
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 9 11:39:42 2002
Don't know if it helps Tom, but there's a big list of software that uses Lame, you can find it here. I consulted this (or a similar list) to try to find the best software for MP3ising my CDs, I settled on CDex, which seems quite nice.
John
- Sun Sep 8 14:29:10 2002
Oh. Does anyone have a decent sound recorder program for Win2K? I'm trying to copy a few albums that I only have on minidisc into WAV for MP3'ing later on.... better still would be straight to MP3. My sound card is OK - SB16 - but not brilliant. Thoughts? I may look at a optical in card if anyone can recommend...
rowanboy
- Sun Sep 8 10:09:25 2002
John, as you live about 20 seconds walk from a high speed Internet link..... alternatively, come round here when you want to do a big download :-)
rowanboy
- Sun Sep 8 10:05:08 2002
Ooooh internet from home. However, having spent the last year or so with really high speed business type connections, it's a bit of a shock to remember how slow standard modems are. Is there any way I can get better download speeds without shelling out any more readies? I'm just using the standard Freeserve 0845 dialup thingy with a 56k modem at the moment. Do I have any better options?
John
- Sat Sep 7 18:10:09 2002
Graf: Cool. I found that site a while back. You're right - damned expensive. I may have to steal one instead....
rowanboy
Home, PC in Spare Room - Fri Sep 6 10:08:09 2002
Well done, John! Well, the interview went ok. 3 months probabtion now. Even though I have been doing the job for 18 months.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 5 21:24:15 2002
I seem to have got myself an internet connection at home again.
John
- Thu Sep 5 18:26:15 2002
Does that give you enough time to grow an impressive moustache?
John
- Thu Sep 5 15:34:32 2002
Got a big interview with the Wing Commander this evening. Oooh!
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 5 15:27:53 2002
Wow tim, that's a hell of a lot of money. How many towels do you have?
Rob V2.1
- Thu Sep 5 10:23:44 2002
Thanks for the last link Andy. I now know (for insurance purposes) that the market value of my beer towel collection to be at least 60 quid. Not to mention hard-to-get ones I nearly died stealing from the Hob Goblin.
dsp
- Wed Sep 4 20:30:58 2002
Tom: Was it you who was looking for a neon budweiser sign? They've got them here http://www.drinkinggadgets.com/neon.php not cheap tho.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Wed Sep 4 17:33:04 2002
Actually it looks pretty much like it isn't. Oh well!
John
- Wed Sep 4 15:37:49 2002
Can someone check if my university page is accessible to the outside world? I don't think it is, but you never know.
John
- Wed Sep 4 15:32:36 2002
Fantastic. Hey Tim, you ought to get it and submit a review. Then perhaps future albums could feature quotes from you, attributed to Tim Hastings (no relation).
John
- Wed Sep 4 12:47:49 2002
You've got no hair!!!!
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 4 09:53:40 2002
Check out this interesting link.
dsp
- Wed Sep 4 09:37:52 2002
Oh, cheers John! Excellent Graf, I love you.
Rob V2.1
- Tue Sep 3 13:56:39 2002
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/bbcsessions/dream_ticket.shtml has got a live carter USM concert up at the moment, in case anyone is interested.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Tue Sep 3 11:56:20 2002
No, no, it's just the standard monthly cleanup. Last month's messages are here.
John
- Tue Sep 3 10:27:31 2002
Madness. Looks like someone has stolen the board!
Rob V2.1
- Tue Sep 3 10:03:39 2002
Mmmmm. Guiness.
rowanboy
- Mon Sep 2 16:19:44 2002