tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216170412011-04-22T01:56:03.916+01:00blinkered views from a narrow mindRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413326853680569991noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21617041.post-1148238147108640572006-05-21T19:56:00.000+01:002006-11-14T16:26:34.455Z

This had me crying with laughter over the weekend:"The reason I’m unsure about exactly what we ate is because almost everything looked like disembodied shards of gloop submerged in an oily miasma with a grated topping of chilli. The first mouthful thudded me back in my chair and I emitted a small strangulated, “Wow!” It was almost the last coherent thing I said. After that, a painful numbness

Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413326853680569991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21617041.post-1142710132780804752006-03-18T19:17:00.000Z2006-11-14T16:26:34.369Z

I'm pretty excited about this musical discovery. Dropped Down is the most electrifying song I have heard in a long time, so I have wasted no time in ordering their EP from the website. You'll find clips from Eagle and Talon Cares here. I won't embarrass myself by describing how absurdly catchy the chorus is, how it whirls around your head like a crazy thing - go find out for yourselves. I'm so

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I'm up to 31 at the moment, but, as always, they include some that are purely personal and some that are just for fun; although there are no extensions that could seriously be considered indispensable, I'll start with the - frankly - indispensable and work my way down:Tab Mix Plus This is the one you'll want if you want to bypass a lot of the others - sessionsaver, tabx, undoclosetab, and a

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Feedback: The great eBay face-off, eh?I received an e-mail today which read, "Hi there, please leave feedback and I will do the same in kind. Thank you for purchasing (la-di-da). Please leave feedback for me on eBay and I'll do the same for you. Take this opportunity now and help build a better eBay community."Here's the thing, see: Why do I have to leave feedback first? I payed for this item

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Subtitled: Having A Cow-on: Music On The Mooooove (There'll be plenty more of those bad jokes, I'm sure.)Push up the power button on the side and the player takes about twenty seconds to load up - and this with 12gigs already taken up with music files on the 30gb version - so you don't have to wait long to start having musical fun. There is a brief loading bar showing the firmware version,

Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413326853680569991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21617041.post-1139123022023584032006-02-05T06:30:00.000Z2006-11-14T16:26:34.004Z

So, it arrived. I was fairly surprised at how heavy the package was - this sturdy, deep, grey box with the "talent" displayed prominently in the window - until it dawned on me that half the weight would be taken up by a hefty instruction manual in fifteen languages. I wasn't wrong. It is worthy packaging, though; the box, the plastic window, and the false bottom lifted to reveal all the necessary

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Isn't this just the cutest little thing? I mean, take a look around you. What's nearby? Look at your hand; this thing barely covers your palm. Well, it certainly doesn't widthways. See that packet of tissues? This is smaller, and thinner; or "not as deep" or whatever the term is. Packet of smokes? This tiny creation certainly beats a twenty; maybe even a packet of ten. That cassette ? (What's one

Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413326853680569991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21617041.post-1138618068450510762006-01-30T10:02:00.000Z2006-11-14T16:26:33.857Z

I just got a shock to discover that a link on my old website was sending people to a bizarre dating search engine. I felt, by turns, murderous, stupid, panic-stricken; I harboured extreme revenge fantasies and wanted to do serious harm. All in the space of just this morning.A year or two back I decided against renewing my domain name - lessbrilliant.co.uk. I was at a point where I felt like I

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I don't have much of a clue about defragging. I go to My Computer and right click, choose Manage and analyze the hard drive for its fragmentary situation and it tells me if it's fine for the moment or needs to be defragged. Instantly. Cold sweats, sleepless nights, hallucinatory anxiety - all absent and correct. There's a part of me that doesn't believe that anything actually happens when you

Roryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413326853680569991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21617041.post-1138436008184971782006-01-28T16:21:00.000Z2006-11-14T16:26:33.672Z

So, I just wanted to link directly to my old website at A Less Brilliant Pen It saves time repeating what I said over there...over here. I'm sure whatever happens here will be as clunky as the first time behind the wheel of a car, but, as it seems to serve a basic kind of cathartic need, I'm not really too concerned. I'm sure all bloggers have a dark yearning to reach the heights of underground

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