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I'm going to be in Darwin at the time. Damn! I'll have to make sure I get my end away on the beach that day so I don't feel like I'm missing out too much.

binmen are on rubbish money i just found out, i think since refuse and recycling went private it's less good than it used to be. i wouldn't say you get to choose your jobs as a tradesman though, you sort of do everything you can in order to make the money, surely. as far as the top jobs not taking skill anymore, i know what you mean, i think, it's not that it doesn't take skill to work with professional equipment, in like an engineering sense or whatever, and i don't think the true talent aspect is in any real danger- the problem is that morons giving the jobs out don't understand what they should be looking for. there's a transitional period at the moment with everyone deciding they're a designer, editor, producer, director, whatever, and it'll take a while before peoples' standards change again i suppose...

i bet it will be standard fare fps. duke nukem is like scratching, the internet gives it much more hype than real life gives it credit for. what i don't understand though is the forum seems to be filled with 13 year olds, who would have been, well, not born when duke 3d came out. why do they care about it? i think it's the strippers who wiggle their tassles at you.

haha. i hope you went '100 million and one' and then stuck your tongue into your chin and went urrrrggrgrh.

excellent news, congratulations!

sounds nice mate, even on these crappo laptop speakers. look forward to the release someone nicked my loose ends cd, i was fucking livid.

nice to hear the entries folks. i couldn't do this for the same reason i couldn't do the group mix. hopefully i should be getting new for old in a few days. it would be my luck they'll fix it, my applecare would of course be voided, so the problems i wanted them to look at will never be fixed and i will be left with a cracked, stained, noisy piece of crap. that would be my luck. anyway i voted, good luck everyone

also i'm not going to say anything so self righteous anymore on account of me not having a leg to stand on and being a bit full of shit in that respect, to be honest

i've been well indignant lately, to be honest i don't know what i think i just felt like being a nob. or devil's advocate, to be political. i don't think sampling is in the same argument, or at least not the one i was trying to make, though. i wonder when music tends to genuinely be considered public domain? it would be cool if things like california love and i got 5 on it (and generally songs known and sung by anyone aged 5 to 80) were made free in bits and bytes formats on account of the fact that if you want it, you almost certainly already have it somewhere, and if u don't you could easily go and get them from just about any shop that sells second hand music's variety bin. or, maybe, if they could do an 'essentials' collection, whereby a label, or a movement, or a subgenre, or time period, or whatever, of songs and albums is sold at a proper knockdown price, that would be super. especially if, with a conscience, it was all released in lossless and low loss formats too. or, how awesome would it be to buy like that in real format from a label or whatever. imagine if for instance big dada's recent well deep compilation wasn't a cd of the best and defining tracks of the label for £12, but it was a 10 album selection on the original cds for £30 or something. i would snap that up.

^^ i know what you mean, i've never found a way to do that either. annoying isn't it?! i'd also like the opportunity to increase the font size a few points

basically i have a really poorly constructed argument in general that leaves out loads of factors etc etc etc, i won't go too far into it. the thing is though, any industry is a grass roots thing. it's like miracle on 34th street, if noone believes, it doesn't exist. something as simple as not raping blogs and limewire for music you might like and instead buying one album and listening to it solid makes a massive difference, because you've exponentially changed the ratio between your illegal vs legal music. i reckon the problem with the marketing artists of major labels is it's too glam, there's a fallacy that there's a shitload of money in music and it's got people heading into it for the wrong reason and then becoming disillusioned. i think it's going to take a little while and a lot of willing, but the norm needs to change to people accepting that a tenner is a fair price to pay for a cd that's taken 100-200 hours' work. if some music is given away by artists, because their main drive is to make music for people to enjoy, but then some is sold in physical formats as well, i think we'd all benefit by basically placing faith in each other and saying 'yes, i do think what you're doing is worthwhile, and i am willing to subsidise your time in order to have this nice cd/vinyl in my hands and ears'. at the end of the day who didn't dub tapes off their mates? the difference is that when you had to have something or know someone in the first place, there was a sense of community there. be it known that i'm no saint myself, and also remember that i said my argument was quite poorly constructed also that i was a bit drunk last night, heh.

or buy em and stop the music industry completely fucking dying. home is where the heart is... i might make this my new mission. name change to 'dv's very own self righteous cunt'?! actually don't

you can resample the stereo output, you have the ram don't you? then you can save that to compact flash and transfer it. i haven't tried it but i'm sure it works... hope this helps bro

sick. great tears. i remember you giving me a bit of a tear lesson at djs for life after dstyles said how nice he thinks they are and since then i've been well into em

ah, oh well, yeah it's not going to work with a laptop i'm afraid i can't really advise you on laptop soundcards, i use a studio mixer with a firewire interface. i reckon you're right on price though...

if you want an internal (pci) one with a 5.25" breakout bay then you can have my terratec dmx 6fire for £35 plus post. it's a great card, full duplex 24/96, riaa preamp, line in/out, mic pre, optical and coax, midi in and out etc... it's sitting needlessly in the family pc at the moment.

^^ dooban i fucked up you're after cable, so don't add your bit til cable sends you it with his on the end! unless cable downloaded, mixed and uploaded in 45 minutes which would be pretty impressive

this will come straight onto my new laptop bro, no need to worry about that!

not perfect. it feels like most other expensive yet mass produced stuff, solid but at the same time a bit plasticky. i did a fairly detailed review a few months back for gizmo to publish, i would post it but i don't want to go back on my word. actually i couldn't even if i wanted to i've just remembered i haven't got it backed up. i really hope my hard drive isn't completely kaput.

that's really nice of you bro thankyou

yeah it should. sorry i'm having trouble concentrating

if i entered i would definitely lose but who needs prizes when you can have fun, so if i can get down i may well enter. my driving test is in 3 weeks now, if i pass i'm going to try my best to travel about for a month or two visiting people and places before i actually stop temping and go for a proper job, so sunday wouldn't be a problem, but even if it's in the more intermediate future i'll probably still have a go at driving back. to whereever i'm living then. which might even be london, i have no idea. i need to do something of some significance soon otherwise think i'm going to deflate completely.

family pc... it worked when i pawned it off on them, give my brother 10 minutes with anything though and he renders it nigh on useless. i've just had to wait 15 minutes for the hard drive to stop chugging and it actually start to do things. my laptop is proper fucked, which is a pain considering i am not a very good backer upper and i have all sorts on it- i'm going to take it to the shop on the weekend and beg them to recover my hard drive. unfortunately that means that there's a very real chance that there's going to be a mortifying moment where i have to go through a bunch of photos of me doing action man poses infront of the webcam with the nerds at the shop, but i suppose i should have thought about that. apple care doesn't cover accidental damage so it's gotta come off the fucking home insurance too. oh well, at least i'll get a new one. i hope, anyway. photos to follow (if i can find a camera, i used to use the macbook lol) ps dooban check pms i'll forward you the rapidshare links

you bastard! i'll have to take a photo of it now or you're just going to think i'm a shirker aren't you...

i came back from the shower this morning to find that a full glass of fruit juice had been blown off my windowsill and onto my laptop i have a feeling it's broken, it was making a fizzing sound so i've dried it as best as i can and taken the battery out. i will probably try turning it on late this evening to see what happens, if it works i'll do my mix tomorrow if it doesn't i'm going to have to pull out i know, rubbish.