Strangely Perfect

Twitter Today’s news that actor Stephen Fry, famous for his uptake of all new gadgets and one-man publicist for Twitter, is “thinking about giving up on Twitter” got me thinking.  (see Fry ponders leaving Twitter site ) Apparently he thinks there’s too much aggression and unkindness around….. well, dah? Not that I’m disagreeing with the [...]

How to Convert a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk When  Microsoft says It’s Irreversible! Firstly, Do Not Dance with the Devil! I made the mistake (again!) of trying dynamic disks with my new Windows 7 installation.  I must have been asleep – the use of this system is seriously frowned upon for most [...]

Introduction I got a ping this morning from a website called cleanup-registry.net   It arrived because I’d been referenced as a website in the network setup using the plugin, “Related Websites” by the Blog Traffic Exchange (actually, it may be time to knock this experiment on the head as generally, the sites are only loosely related [...]

Introduction In the Russian Dolls virtual world of my PC (I’ve currently upgraded to a AMD Phenom II 4x core 955 Black Edition which now allows me to run at least six Operating Systems (OS) concurrently – at the last count!), I have a Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) inside two virtual versions of Windows XP [...]

A Possible Start to Personal Details Theft? Here’s how it works… Some time ago I made a posting on the odiously chubby internet bankrupteer and millionaire self-publicist Robert Allen (see link here).  As part of this investigation I used the name “Morton” coupled to my spam magnet email address in order to see what would [...]

I Wish I Was a Girl – by The Pink Fairies Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat Ironic or what? Oh I tripped down the street in my fashion, Arousing Ladies passion, But they misunderstand my eyes, They don’t know that I’m just after their guys. The instrumental and vocal bit after the verse above [...]

Hey man, hope all is well with you and your family.  Have you checked out my website videos yet? Well the mixer is on hold indefinitely Picked up a Soundcraft Folio for now The studio is but a few weeks away from semi completion. Just painting(not sure what color)and sound proofing I’ve added a pic [...]

Barn Suitable for Conversion to Recording Studio, Pied a Terre… Relaxation Point, Sanctuary, Holiday Home, etc Isolated, & Private.   ~£50k 76 miles from Newcastle 89 miles from Glasgow 46 miles from Edinburgh 247 miles from Birmingham 360 miles from London Contact Mr Anth Chester via this website or tel: 0191 2592313; mob: 07932440357 View Larger [...]

As part of my day job, I get a (extremely valuable, it must be said, for which I’m very grateful) MSDN subscription. Recently, I’ve had trouble with Visual Studio.  It used to be 2005 and is now 2008.  They use the Team Foundation Server Developer Edition.  So I decided to re-install….  oh, dear. After a [...]

Another day, another Microsoft security alert.. This morning, another raft of advisories arrived in my mail from Secunia, this is one; Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability This rivetting title is like deja-vu.  Time and again we’ve seen this.  This is the fault of a company, Microsoft, that puts form before function, functionality before [...]

Paul. This scan is from my old ETI Circuits #2 from the 70′s.  It’s about the best op-amp info you are likely to find.  With a bit of knowledge, these six circuits are an instant ready-reckoner and allow you to do almost anything! If you’ve no knowledge, they’re just squiggles on paper.  But then so [...]

Gonna get on with the mixer tomorrow Im just gonna plug in one channel to stip, but do i still need to connect the monitor channel also which has a ground strip to earth?  (this would usually be the last channel in the chain of multiple strip) thanks paul

Hey man, hope you had a great weekend did you see the weston beach race? or did you stay at home and enjoy the weather? ive taken on the job of Mixerlock Homes and trying to disyfer/dysifer(check spelling on that ONE) the mixer schematic and pcb trace on the PSU schematic it reads +15vB? what [...]

Hey man hope all is well Used that RTA software today to check out mixer, here are the results For each channel i used the line and then out of direct out I sent various signals through from a 20HZ – 20000HZ sweep to a 500HZ square wave Channel 1 & 7 were dead Channel [...]