Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Lilith __,
Graham, dude, high horse?
Have to agree, Graham. I could do without Tom telling me and everyone else – for the umpteenth time – what pathetic fools we are. But I also don’t need you to issue general baggings to the PAS community.
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Hard News suffered a credibility blow from which it has never recovered – it is now largely a sporadic blog about media matters, generation x music nostalgia and advertorials for the Media 3 TV show. Russell Brown himself has said he wants and likes it that way now.
Why yes Tom, you're so wise: that's exactly how it happened. With my credibility in tatters I was forced to retire and never do or say anything serious again. There's no way I did anything crazy like talk to people on all sides of this dispute on camera, on stage and in private.
/irony
But it is true that I'm less interested in political blogging (as opposed to writing about issues like national standards) at the moment. Mostly because that means I don't need to waste my time with people like you.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Better Bit…, in reply to Moz,
I would be tempted by a similar service for lossless files, because I do still have a big pile of mp3s floating around.
I strongly suspect that's a matter of "when", not "if".
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Cracker: Weapons of Mass Production, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Am I the only one who’s been given godlike powers to close threads and make posts sticky? Russell?
Not just you! Thanks to Sacha for the heads-up. There was a site upgrade last night and a little permissions problem as a result. Thanks for your restraint :-)
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Dean Parker,
Well, this is a change for Public Address, isn’t it.
You appear to have mistaken this website for The Borg, Dean.
A range of views on these issues have been debated here, generally quite civilly.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Better Bit…, in reply to JacksonP,
That really is a tasty treat.
I haven't had time to listen to the whole mixtape, but I really hope his awesome remix of The Faints' 'The Geeks Were Right' is on it.
Virgin Magnetic Material is henceforth a Soundcloud follow.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Also, if Dotcom was paying for expensive corporate fibre service (as he was) even Telecom could have sorted out routing issues quite easily.
You'd think. I don't know what to make of this.
Have sysops been gossiping today?
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Oops. Just realised I forgot to include this steaming, fuming, funky "re-vision" of John Lennon's 'How Do You Sleep'?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Better Bit…, in reply to George Darroch,
How much of your data-cap did refreshing 3000 songs take?
I don't know, actually. Snap gives me 560GB a month so I basically treat it as an unlimited account.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Better Bit…, in reply to Simon Honiss,
Initially I went with Match as I was travelling and wanted access to my entire library but it didn’t really work out the way I anticipated hotel broadband being what it is.
Yeah, that's a big problem right there. It's simpler to just pack an iPod Classic.