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Tampering with history?

Had a mad dash up to the uni library earlier on today in order to get the DVDs back before I started racking up the ursurious fines that get levied if you’re so much as a nanosecond late. Which meant that I had to dig out my student card, which for those not in the know about the bizarre rituals that pass for administration at Leeds Uni, is approximately the size of a small football field. Well, I exaggerate slightly - but it’s obviously been scientifically designed to be too big to fit in any wallet that holds ordinary credit cards, with the results that it sticks out of my wallet at both ends and gets bashed and crumpled and cracked around the corners. Not to mention the holes that it’s wearing in my pockets. Compare and contrast with Leeds Met, who have a dinky little credit-card sized number with a digital photo and signature embossed on the back. Having said that, I should of course be thankful that Leeds have got as far as the concept of lamination - I’m sure we’d still be carrying hand-illuminated parchment scrolls around if the administration powers-that-be had their way…

Doctors ’stole brains for research’ says the BBC. “The brains of thousands of mentally ill and depressed people were illegally removed for research, a government inquiry is expected to reveal.”

Now I can’t help read that second paragraph and not think of the Monty Python organ doner sketch…

How much time can I waste playing around with this? It’s addictive - figuring out the how all the domain name implications work, and tinkering with templates. Not that I haven’t got better things to be playing around with, exams being less than two weeks away

This is what this morning looks like

…and this post comes courtesy of w.Bloggar - a rather neat little tool for posting to MT without using the web interface. It doesn’t do offline posts - you need something like Zempt or SharpMT for that, but it’s pretty damn clever nevertheless

Lots and lots of numbers - MacWizards Music — RIAA Statistics Don’t Add Up to Piracy - analysing the assertion that downloading is killing the music industry. It’s a pretty close analysis in very small type - and given that you can prove anything with numbers, may or may not be correct.

But it got me thinking.

I last bought a CD about four months ago. I think it was a Peter Gabriel release, and cost me about £15. From memory (it’s in a pile somewhere, so forgive me if I don’t indulge in archeology to find it) there were about 10 tracks on it - and to be brutally honest, Peter, only about three of them were really any good. Five were self-indulgent horseshit filler, and the rest I can’t make my mind up about. But anyway, that’s a matter of my opinion, and £15 for 10 tracks it was.
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