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[08 May 2004|08:33pm] |
I highly recommend checking out the following site. It's about nanotechnology. One of the main areas of interest is building desktop-sized nanofactories that are extremely cheap with the potential to manufacture almost anything. Considering that the technology could easily arrive in the next 10-20 years, it is well worth being aware of.
www.crnano.org
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[16 Jan 2004|05:22am] |
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
A site most worthy of a visit. Absolutely hilarious, and very witty. Potentially quite offensive so be careful, but too funny not to share. Anyone who spends lots of time on a forum will LOVE this.
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| challenge |
[21 Dec 2003|07:04am] |
I present to you a challenge. I have written some satire here. It's not actually about filesharing - the situation described here is hypothetical and somewhat unrealistic. Try to guess what this writing is really about. (HINT: it's to do with Christian attitudes)
As a young Christian walks through the front doors of his church, the metallic fascia of an MP3 player stashed in his pocket catches the sunlight. Pastor McCarthy notices this, and a look of utter disgust crosses his face.
The sermon begins. "One Corinthians Nine verse Eleven", proclaims the pastor loudly, drawing his audience's attention. Before he looks back to his sermon notes, he pauses to glance at Tom directly, and in the pastor's eyes he sees the look of father coming home to find that his son has thrown an unauthorized, messy party in the living room.
He begins to read the passage - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor the drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
"Today we're going to be talking about the thieves", he says.
The sermon continues, passionately, about how some people call themselves Christians yet commit theft regularly, openly flaunting God's law. The abomination is called filesharing, and a small minority of Christians are somehow fooling themselves that they can commit this sin and be a child of God at the same time.
The congregation soak up the message like a sponge. They feel great, for none of them have committed this heinous act. Everybody leaves the building ready to pour judgment on any "filesharers" they find. Everybody except one.
Three weeks later the lights on the side of Tom's laptop continue to flicker, but he doesn't download Christian music anymore. That church has rejected him. A couple of weeks ago, trying to be as honest as possible, he'd admitted to his youth pastor that he didn't consider filesharing a sin. "And even if it is a sin", he said, "shouldn't you just wait until God finds a time to convict me of that sin instead of being so judgmental?". That was the comment that got him thrown out of his first ever church.
I can tell you, God cried that day.
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| caa |
[09 Dec 2003|12:16am] |
Over the past two or three days the CAA has been in complete disarray. Those who were involved will know what I was talking about. Those who don't know probably don't need to know.
I just hope and pray that the CAA emerges from this unpleasant experience stronger that it was before.
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| korea |
[21 Nov 2003|08:48pm] |
This country is doing the right thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3222664.stm
Korea plans ultra fast broadband
South Korea is embarking on a huge project to make its national broadband network even faster.
The government and telecommunication companies will spend 2.1 trillion won (£1.06bn) to upgrade Korea's network.
When the project ends in 2010 the top speed of South Korea's core broadband infrastructure will be 100Mbps.
The government said it would link up with the country's wireless networks to create a ubiquitous system that boosts e-health and education initiatives.
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| set |
[21 Nov 2003|12:33pm] |
Well, it looks like I'll be playing another set in the Grovel tonight (it's a student bar next to our halls). Last time I played drum and bass, and it went down fairly well. I think I'll be playing some house tonight. Before I do so though, I've got a Java lecture and about 4 hours of sleep to get out of the way...
In the meantime, download this track I've made:
djnoz - java
The vocal comes from a Gamelan piece, and the rest is breaks and electro sounds. Enjoy :]
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| gamelan |
[21 Nov 2003|06:40am] |
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Gamelan music rocks... I just download about an hours of it. Loads of acapella samples to rinse, and some awesome instrumentals. Sounds a bit like the soundtrack to Akira..
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| music |
[21 Nov 2003|04:17am] |
Here's a bit of information about what I get up to in my spare time, with pics. I've got a software-based music studio in here...
Gearlist:
AMD Athlon 1600XP - this is the center of the music studio
640MB RAM
SB Live! with daughterboard expansion
Gforce2 GTS
15" flat panel monitor
AMD Athlon 2000XP-M - internet browsing during the production of tracks
256MB RAM
CDRW combo
Extra network card
DJ gear
2X Technics SL1210MK2
Numark DM-3000X mixer
Sennheiser HD25 headphones
Numark CDN-24 cd player
Keyboard - cheap and simple, used to input notes into the computer
10mb connection - l33tness ^_^
There are also some USB devices lying around, listed below:
Digital camera - what I used to take all these picures
Graphire2 tablet - for graphics work
Canon Lide20 scanner - for scanning drawings
Sony NetMD walkman - for the listening of tunes and (future)recording of random samples
Stuff I want to get
cheap condenser mic - recording vocals, instruments(eg guitar) and other things in the studio
small clip mic - for recording random samples whilst out and about
more samples - kinda goes without saying. send some my way if ya want.
That concludes todays entry. I'll post some tunes in the future ;]
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| first post. |
[19 Nov 2003|04:22am] |
This is my first post. I've finally decided to get this thing customized how I like. So what have I been up to? Last Friday I went out to a drum+bass night at one of the clubs in Manchester (Sankey Soap). Grooverider was the biggest name on the flyer, however the best set was easily played by Vegas from Bad Company. Totally rocked the crowd. Grooverider himself played a short 30 minute set, quite disappointing really. However I think I got my money's worth.
Grandmaster Flash is playing there on the 4th, fairly cheap ticket prices too. I might have to check that one out.
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