Closet Heretic

Posted on Sat 08 April 2006 in general

Despite never being shown I got hold of a copy of the South Park Scientology episode. Its certainly not the funniest episode Messrs Parker and Stone have done - for example they rather laboured the Tom Cruise in the closet joke. However full marks for the animated guide to Xenu's history …


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Jason Webley

Posted on Fri 07 April 2006 in general

I went to see Jason Webley last night with Lee et all last night. I last saw him at Glasto so this was a chance to catch his UK tour as it hit Manchester. If your a fan of "Power Accordion Angst" I can heartily recommend his stuff. The location …


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Will someone rid me of this troublesome music player?

Posted on Fri 07 April 2006 in geek

At work I'm a little limited on which music players I can use (basically it has to be one that compiles with the system libs of SuSE 10.0). I also want a player that has Audioscrobbler support. This has meant running beep-media-player which was quite stable although know is …

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Dear Beeb (reprise)

Posted on Thu 06 April 2006 in geek

Continuing my on and off dialog with the nations favourite institution.

"Will the BBC support other formats for their podcasting trial? At the moment only having mp3 podcasts available make it very difficult to listen to on my GNU/Linux system.

The legal status of playing mp3's on my system …


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Trips

Posted on Wed 05 April 2006 in misc • Tagged with politics

I caught All in the Mind on the way home last night. They were discussing the possible therapeutic uses of various recreational psychoactive compounds and the problems clinicians have studying them because of their legal status. I've always held that there should be more research into these compounds not withstanding …


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