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Most conspiracy web sites are poorly written tosh. The Library of Halexandria is still tosh, but it’s surprisingly enjoyable tosh. Just in case the Da Vinci Code wasn’t enough….

I haven’t stopped. Far from it. There’s another bunch gone up today and more to go tomorrow (if I can get my thumb out). Right now we’re surfing the border between two genres - a bunch of Trade related very-hard-very-camp-very-late-nights-very-messed-up house and some altogether-more-acceptable-to-most-of-my-friends tech house. Go see. Bid. I won’t tell anyone which genre you bid on…

A very nice round up of both sides of the argument in the current Google vs. The Authors débacle.
Found at waxy.org

There’s another grow game. There goes my week.

Avoid that embarrassing graduation photo being plastered over the news… If you’re going to go you may as well go in style.

Just got a mail from my mate Paul:

How’s it going? Apparently you can transplant faces now:

US Doctors prepare for first face transplant

But apparently it fucks with your mind. Well d’uh!

Billy was at school last week in an Australian town and the teacher asked all the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came out, Fireman, Policeman, Salesman, Chippy, Captain of Industry, etc, but Billy was being uncharacteristically quiet, and so the teacher asked him about his father.

“My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes if the offer is really good, he’ll go out with a man, rent a cheap hotel room and let them sleep with him.”

The teacher quickly set the other children some work and took little Billy aside to ask him if that was really true.

“No” said Billy, “He actually plays cricket for Australia, but I was much too embarrassed to say.”

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Should cricket be free to air, or should the ECB make slightly more money for the grass roots game and sell the rights for test cricket to Sky? After finding that Channel 4 brings an average of 8 times the viewers to cricket than Sky, and that having won the rights to test cricket as well as county cricket Sky is now only committing to 2 county championship games a year I am well and truly sold… Keep Cricket Free. Seeing my dad (63) and my maiden great aunt (78) forced into giving Murdoch �36 a month to support a sport they’ve already given more than 50 years of their lives to just adds to the feeling. Grass roots support for the game is hard enough to come by, without putting up yet another barrier to entry.

Does your Sky+ box show that you have less disk space free than you should have? Have you deleted all your programs and still have considerably less than 100% free? You have? Then your disk is fragmented, caused by a bug in the Sky+ software…

To fix it press Services, then 4 (to select System Setup) then 0, 1, Select and you should have a hidden menu appear. The first thing to try is selecting option 7 (Sky+ Planner Rebuild). This will take a couple of minutes and won’t affect your recorded programs or series links. Once you’ve waited a couple of minutes turn the box back on and check your disk space - It should now be OK.

If it’s still not showing correctly go back to the hidden menu and this time select option 8 (Full System Reset). This will wipe everything on your planner, including everything you’ve recorded and all of your series links, so make sure you’ve watched everything that you wanted to and made a note of the programs you were planning to record…

(It’s amazing what you find out when one of your mates work for Sky - turns out if I hadn’t found this out I would have been charged �65!)

This is all the radio you’ll ever need on your mp3 player from now on in. listen to it again and again and again.

BBC makes Ashes highlights available for download.