Nothing starts the day off better than a freebie. Reading my usual blogs this morning, I stumbled upon a post from Bob over at FlakLife. Mmm, so as well as giving Bob a bit of linking love, you can get a copy of the Book, “Pow! Right Between the Eyes - Profiting from the Power […]

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I thought hard about giving this item coverage, but thought it interesting that a man, convicted of indecent acts against young boys, should choose to write and record a song, “The Truth About Harold Shipman”, that basically says, Harold Shipman may not have been as bad a man as he was portrayed. However on further […]

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I recently purchased a new laptop, but not without a lot of shopping around for the best deals. One of the things I noticed, was the quantity of models, exclusive to stores. While at first this seems relatively innocent, it was only after thinking about it for a while did I recount a story, of […]

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I wasn’t even going to type the dreaded word, but suffice to say, it’s hard to miss the hype surrounding Apples new iPhone. As it turns out, much of the hype is justified and it looks like Apple have a surefire hit on their hands, well that is if 700,000 units over the weekend can […]

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There’s not many artists that have the kind of recognition that the Beatles enjoy. It’s been over 30 years since they disbanded, but still their music is as fresh now as it always was. The Beatles however are not like most bands. Their influences are great and their reach is far.
As someone just on […]

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I’ve been a professional programmer for over 20 years. I first started out using Televideo CP/M based machines, with varying 5 and a quarter inch floppy disk configurations. The highest spec machine had a 5 megabyte hard disk. From that, the company I was working for migrated to IBM compatible PC’s running DOS and then […]

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Now I could be barking up the wrong tree here, but I had a bit of an epiphany, could the recent furore regarding DRM have been cleverly masterminded. I know, conspiracy theories abound for many things, but this idea maybe bears careful consideration.
I spoke recently about Steve Jobs open letter on the subject of […]

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Steve Jobs has certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons with his recent open letter “Thoughts on Music“. There’s been many conflicting opinions as to what Jobs is up to, but no matter what, it’s certainly a shrewd time for him to consider casting the iTunes web further. iTunes has a reported 82% of […]

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