Insight, foresight, more sight, the clock on the wall reads a quarter past midnight.

If you haven't heard this song, you should. One of the most perfect bits of turntablism ever ma...

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Hahahahahahaha

I use a tracker on this blog just to see where in the world people come from who read whatever shite I'm spouting. I got a hit from New South Wales in Australia based on an ask.com search for "second hand Daewoo Matiz". Burn in hell fucker, wankers like you who buy these shit cars should be condemned to eternal agony.Fuck you and goodnight.Listening to: Degradead - Out Of Body Experie...

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What I thoguht about on my way home

The drive home from work tonight was wet and wild but the start, as always, was a slow grind from the M4/M5 junction past the M4/M32 junction. It's a busy junction and the mere presence of inclement weather tends to make people drive like complete muppets. But nothing unusual there. Unfortunately there was a stack on the motorway (fortunately for me, on the other carriageway) which occurred in the outside lane. For those not familiar with the British way of describing motorway lanes, that's the on in the middle. It was a low-ish speed affair, so...

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Where's my mojo, man?

It's finally happened. I have totally lost all interest in or concern about my job and my career. I think I knew it was coming, and it has been for a while now, but I finally feel like I have totally lost all enthusiasm for what I do for a living. Once upon a time I was totally up for it, always ready to learn something new and get stuck in. Now I just don't care enough to make any effort.I just read an article related to something I was thinking of doing and to be honest I only understood about 30% of it even though it was based upon my programming...

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Here's to you Mrs Robinson

Just watched last nights Have I Got News For You which was hosted by Kirsty Young. Wow. She looked stunning, absolutely stunning. I would give one of my arms to have even a date with her. Wonder how I could apply to be her toyb...

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Shameless self-promotion

My self-promotion, that is. I've put a couple of mixes online that I recorded a couple of years ago. They're not the best I've ever done as I was out of practice, and the two that are up are very similar in terms of the tracks on them, but it's a start. I might do more soon and put them up, I'll see if I get the chance.Anyway, they are progressive, tech and tribal house and trance - think Nick Warren, John Digweed, Sasha etc. You can find them here. Enj...

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Mmmmm....chicken.....

I'm part of a free-range future. Join me at ChickenOut....

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Now ehere was I?

So that list thing never happened. As usual with these things I got bored and just couldn't be arsed. Oh well. Instead, I thought I might share some music with you. Well, I say share, but you might not want to listen to it, but there you go.You may or may not have heard of Spotify. In case you haven't, it's a free service which allows you to stream unlimited music to your PC for free. Yes, free. You do get an ad every now and then but frankly, it's not intrusive and it's a lot better than radio - no annoying DJs or shitty low rent ads from local...

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Happy Blogday to me!

And so I come to my 100th post. I was going to make this a bit of a discussion on new music delivery models (namely Spotify) and my thoughts on them, but I've decided that can be post no 101 or even a bit futher on. No, today we are talking lists, specifically, the kinds of list that tell you you should have read/listened to/done, or whatever, the various things contained therein. Of course, these things are largely pointless because they generally involve lists made up by journos or pundits all of whom, have some sort of agenda and so they are...

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Scrubbing up nicely

I've just started to watch the eighth (and probably last) season of Scrubs. I started watching this by accident way back 7 or 8 years ago when I caught an episode on a cable channel and thought it was just about the funniest off-beat comedy in recent times (it also helps that it has an eclectic and often rather good soundtrack). The characters are all very good and well acted, the scripts are good and consistently funny, but for me the absolute shining beacon of the program is one of the lead stars, Sarah Chalke (note that this link points to...

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You know whta?

I'm wrecked. Totally wrecked. I'm also still single but things are moving on. Would be happier if I wasn't single but what the hell - life is pretty reasonable. Happy Easter!! In a totally secular way, obvious...

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Old friends

I was just browsing eMusic to grab this months allowance of music when I happened upon the new album from Telefon Tel Aviv (Immolate Yourself on BPitch Control / Finetunes, 2009), a Chicago based ambient outfit. I've come across them before on the strength of one tune that was on a down tempo mix album and I tried to get it on vinyl but the record company (a small indie label) said there was a limited run of about 1000 copies and they were all gone (although the guy did have a look around their office for me which I thought was rather nice of him).Anyway,...

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Love/hate

In my day job, I am a software developer working primarily in Microsoft languages and a Database Administrator dealing with Microsoft databases, and I like their stuff on the whole, it's good, it works and it's good to use on the whole. Tonight I had a job to do which involved ensuring that we had a continuously updated copy of our main database on another server which would live in another building so that should the unthinkable happen and our offices be destroyed, we had a working copy of the system elsewhere.I practised and planned this carefully...

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Arse crisps

I finally got O2 to actually talk to me and it turns out that because I boght the phone through Dial-a-Phone, I'm not eligible for the free bolt-on until the end of March. Fucksocks.Well, to cheer me up it's time for the new series of Oz and James' drinking adventures and there's this which is just bloody hilarious.Chin ch...

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Urge to kill...rising...

O2. I thought they would be a good mobile network to move to a couple of years ago after Orange went down the toilet (they were bought out by a French Telco and the customer service died a death plus I couldn't get a signal either where I lived or worked which made a change of network a pressing concern). I had previously been with Vodafone for years but for some reason I decided that I should give another operator a go. Anyway, long and short is that I shifted to O2, albeit via the Carphone Warehouse. In truth I hadn't realised I was going via...

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