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I recently bought a new DVD player. The one I had from back in 1998 or so has held up reasonably well, but had started sticking or jumping on an increasing number of discs. It also wouldn’t play some VCDs (particularly ones I made myself), and couldn’t play MP3s at all. The player I was [...]

Recently I’ve been playing a lot with BitTorrent, downloading US TV series, burning them to CD, and watching them with my DVD player. Some of the new series have been rather good, and it could be years before they ever reach the UK - if at all. We’re only just reached Season 3 of The [...]

An interesting take on the latest crop of annual report by Motley Fool UK:

Phrase
# Reports in which it appears

our success
154

we were successful
24

our failure
1

we were unsuccessful
3

we failed
2

our fault
0

our error
0

our lack of judgement
0

mistake
4

What a great idea. Spider Microsoft’s web sites, download Word documents, run a tool on them for revision tracking information still left in the file, and post the interesting bits to a website.
Watching the stories emerge is quite fascinating. [via boing boing]

I missed this one a few weeks back:
The Home Secretary will this week appeal to the Royal Courts of Justice for permission to charge all those who have been wrongly convicted for the costs of accommodation during their time in prison.
— The Scotsman
I’m increasingly finding myself horrified by the insanity of [...]

Police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet… She has been charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via TalkLeft
OK, so you could possibly argue, at a stretch, that posting [...]

Hmmm. Apparently I make kinky error mesages.