Daily archives: July 25, 2008

Teenagers kicked

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And the rest of us who want to share music.

I lost a lot of respect for Feargal Sharkey on Thursday morning listening to him making a weak case for the BPI’s deal with six big ISPs. In contrast, a representative of In The City was on The Revolution that evening telling the truth- there are lots of ways for musicians to reach out to fans and make money, it’s only the record companies who are suffering, and then only because they want to rip off the musicians and treat their paying customers like thieves.

I would pay for a service that gave me access to the back catalogue of all the major music labels (and all the indies, of course), so long as it didn’t send me files that were crippled with code that kept me from moving them when I upgraded computers, stuck them on my phone or bought an MP3 player.

The Dis from Brazil

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Extrapolating from a conversation last night.

There must have been enough genetic material to be swept up from the Parisian tunnel that someone could have got a decent bit of DNA from it. Replicate that, stick it in a few dozen eggs and set yourself up with a baby farm somewhere in South America (or certain parts of eastern Europe, where they’d be even less obvious) and wait. Then, in 2016, when they’ve all turned 18 break out the bowl cuts and let your army of simpering blondes loose to be bedded by older toffs, rugby players and cads. They will also steal the hearts of Britain whilst you carry out your nefarious deeds unnoticed. We won’t even have Gregory Peck around to sniff out the conspiracy.

(2012 would make a more dramatic year for them to be released, what with the Mayan calendar ending and the London Olympics, but they’d only be 14 and that’s wrong.)

(There’s a listing in imdb for The Boys From Brazil due 2009, but no information. What’s the betting it’s yet another unnecessary remake?)

I’ve turned off the Internet

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The RSS feeds, anyway. I was finding that all I’d do was scroll through reading updates and by the time I’d reached the bottom there’d be a new set to look at, so I’d start again. I have no self control when it comes to information.

I may log in to Bloglines and clean most of the feeds out, so I’ve got a shorter list, but I have found myself more productive since I closed it last week. Information addiction versus increased productivity. Can there be a trade off?

Update I shall now look at my RSS feeds once a week and have a mad frenzy of linkblogging as a result.

I've turned off the Internet

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The RSS feeds, anyway. I was finding that all I’d do was scroll through reading updates and by the time I’d reached the bottom there’d be a new set to look at, so I’d start again. I have no self control when it comes to information.

I may log in to Bloglines and clean most of the feeds out, so I’ve got a shorter list, but I have found myself more productive since I closed it last week. Information addiction versus increased productivity. Can there be a trade off?

Update I shall now look at my RSS feeds once a week and have a mad frenzy of linkblogging as a result.