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Eurovision CD Shenanigans
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
When you get iTunes to play or import an audio CD, it gets the track names from a database on the internet called the CDDB. If the CD you have isn't on the database, you are given the opportunity to enter the track names yourself, and then publish them to the server, so that anyone else with the same CD won't have to type them in.
So I was amused when, putting in my Eurovision 2006 CD, the track name for the Spanish song wasn't quite right. It's supposed to be called "Bloody Mary", but this is what I saw:
Haha.
So I was amused when, putting in my Eurovision 2006 CD, the track name for the Spanish song wasn't quite right. It's supposed to be called "Bloody Mary", but this is what I saw:
Haha.
Labels: tech
Big Brother secrets
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The intro sequence to Big Brother UK in 2006 (which seems to be themed on MPEG noise) has “secret words” in it.Here they are.
Hard Rock Hallelujah
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Dear Movie Industry: You Are All Idiots
Sunday, May 14, 2006
So I sat down on the sofa, popped in a new DVD, and prepared to enjoy.
But oh no. Hold on there, citizen. First you must be exposed to the state-sponsored propaganda!
"You wouldn't steal a car! So don't steal a movie! PIRACY IS THEFT!"
I am angry about this for so many reasons, I have to make a list:
Way to go, Movie Industry. Why are you all morons?
But oh no. Hold on there, citizen. First you must be exposed to the state-sponsored propaganda!
"You wouldn't steal a car! So don't steal a movie! PIRACY IS THEFT!"
I am angry about this for so many reasons, I have to make a list:
- First of all, it's not piracy. Piracy is: "an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery". Am I in a boat? No. So shut up and learn English.
- If I steal your car in the middle of the night, in the morning, you don't have a car any more. That's theft. But if I download a movie without paying for it, nothing has gone missing, anywhere. I might not have even bought the movie if I couldn't download it. So no-one has lost out: this is not theft. At worst, it's copyright infringement, something that happens every time you sing "Happy Birthday".
- Finally, and most ridiculously, you can't skip this stupid video. You are forced to watch it before you can watch the movie, and the controls of your DVD player are locked out. But if I were to download a copy instead, there would be no such restrictions. The illegal version is better!
Way to go, Movie Industry. Why are you all morons?
Labels: commentary, tech
Caesar the Geezer jingle archive
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
A previous incarnation of my web site had an archive of Caesar the Geezer jingles available for download. I'd recently hooked up a tape deck to my Mac and was going through my very ancient collection of tapes. These jingles were rescued from a tape I made from when he was broadcasting on Talk Radio UK.
Literally only a few days after I took down the page, I got an e-mail from a random person who had found my site (I get a lot of those), and wanted to know where they'd gone. (Hello, "KC"!)
Well, that counts as "popular demand" to me. So here they are, you can download them again.
Warning! These were recorded off a poor-quality AM radio using a poor-quality tape recorder. The quality is bad, and most of them have a bit missing off the start from where I wasn't able to press "Record" fast enough. But as far as I know, these are the only copies of these jingles to exist.
Update 11/10/2006: Hello visitors from the Tommy Boyd forum!
Literally only a few days after I took down the page, I got an e-mail from a random person who had found my site (I get a lot of those), and wanted to know where they'd gone. (Hello, "KC"!)
Well, that counts as "popular demand" to me. So here they are, you can download them again.
Warning! These were recorded off a poor-quality AM radio using a poor-quality tape recorder. The quality is bad, and most of them have a bit missing off the start from where I wasn't able to press "Record" fast enough. But as far as I know, these are the only copies of these jingles to exist.
- Download the jingles (9.6MB zip)
Update 11/10/2006: Hello visitors from the Tommy Boyd forum!
Welcome to the future
Saturday, May 06, 2006
I decided that my next mobile phone will be the Nokia N93. It's not out just yet, but it's a 3G phone, and thus requires a 3G SIM card.
Now my SIM card is only a lowly 2G one on Orange, and Orange won't sell me a 3G card without also buying a 3G phone.
So, I've taken the opportunity to switch to T-Mobile, on one of their new Flext tariffs including "Web'n'walk", which gives me unlimited access to the internet on my phone. T-Mobile also provided a very cheap Nokia N70, which uses the same operating system as the N93 will do. When the N93 is finally released I'll simply put my new SIM card in it.
The combination of Series 60 (the operating system these phones run) and unlimited wireless internet access allows for some pretty funky things, like accessing the web, using e-mail, even blogging and uploading photos on the move. There's even a portable version of Google Maps, which is quite frankly amazing.
The future's bright. It's just not orange anymore.
PS: I find it amusing that Blogger's spell-checker doesn't know the word "blogging". D'oh!
Now my SIM card is only a lowly 2G one on Orange, and Orange won't sell me a 3G card without also buying a 3G phone.
So, I've taken the opportunity to switch to T-Mobile, on one of their new Flext tariffs including "Web'n'walk", which gives me unlimited access to the internet on my phone. T-Mobile also provided a very cheap Nokia N70, which uses the same operating system as the N93 will do. When the N93 is finally released I'll simply put my new SIM card in it.
The combination of Series 60 (the operating system these phones run) and unlimited wireless internet access allows for some pretty funky things, like accessing the web, using e-mail, even blogging and uploading photos on the move. There's even a portable version of Google Maps, which is quite frankly amazing.
The future's bright. It's just not orange anymore.
PS: I find it amusing that Blogger's spell-checker doesn't know the word "blogging". D'oh!
Labels: tech
