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Archive for September, 2007

Well, that was weird. But nice.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

You may have heard that Amazon are selling non-DRM MP3 downloads. I shit you not. Anyway, I decided to check it out. I’ve been thinking about buying Amy Winehouse’s album, but it was £12 at HMV (sod that) and it’s not in iTunes Plus on the iTMS, which means a lousy 128kbps file. But lo, at Amazon it’s a 256kbps, non-DRM MP3! And the whole album is like $9! Or £4.50 for those of you not up to speed with the dollar’s decline.

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Some progress to report

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

This graphic claims that only three countries in the world do not use the metric system. None of them is the UK. Now anyone who lives here knows that we don’t really use the metric system. Roadsigns are in miles and MPH. Beer and milk is available in pints. And people weigh themselves in stone. There is even some progress to report as well. Next year, four?

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