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:: Saturday, May 31, 2003 ::

Full Glastonbury line up. My ticket turned up yesterday and this gets published the same day... I nearly wet myself. And AFX and Squarepusher both playing again! What are Goldfrapp, John Cale and Tricky doing on the New Bands Stage?

:: Dan 31.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I've had to spend the day at the M$ 2003Server roadshow (Oh, joy of joys). I'm not going to get all techy here but I would like to quote one or two of the speakers:

First up was Nevil (or Norman, depending on who was introducing him):
"... I'm here because I'm a Win 2000 admin expert....."
Five minutes later when things start to go a bit pear shaped:
".. bugger. We'll I'm not touching THAT, it's gone wrong." (Someone shouted from the audience what was wrong, he still failed to fix it. Can you feel the confidence rising? No? Didn't think so)
He also instisted on calling a double forward slash a "whack, whack" because he didn't know what else to call them.

Next was Ian: (talking on security)
Spent almost three hours slagging off M$, quality, worth the trip for him alone.

Finaly there was some Indian bloke, who's name I can't remember, and he kept slipping into a German accent:
".. I'm the resident upgrade and migration expert.."
Five minutes later when things start to go a bit pear shaped:
".. perhaps I should reboot"
After the upgrade he was doing rebooted, he'd forgoten the admin password, rendering the next three demonstrations, and the migration, usless.


I thouroghly comend M$, they've obviously decieded that the best way of stopping people slagging them of and saying thier employees don't know jack, is to employ people to do a much better job of it themselves.
Well done.
( ^_^)//

:: popcorn 30.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I've just come across the amazing Crap Towns website. Some of the entries from people who grew up in some places are so bitter they could never have been written by anyone who hadn't put up with 18 years of pain and suffering at the hands of such a vile place. My current favourites are the entries on Stockport (I remember that 192 bus!) and Bath. However, the entry for Merthyr Tydfil doesn't do as much as I would like to express the shear unwelcoming nature of the place, like the bullet hole in the hotel room window. Yes, only one hotel, and it was an overpriced fleapit with no heating and no hot water.

:: Dan 29.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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For those with copies of the Jam DVD, here is a great easter egg guide (and there is quite a bit of stuff on there, quite well hidden).

:: Dan 28.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Tricky's new album is out now. It's called Vulnerable, and has it's own mini site. And if you've been wondering, as I have, whatever happened to Martina Topley Bird, there is an interview with her about her debut solo album, Quixotic, which has been four years in the making and is due out later this year, here.

:: Dan 27.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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