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Firefox - Rediscover the web
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Why put up with Micro$oft's Internet Exploder when you could be using Firefox? This browser seems to do everything that IE6 does, avoids much of the hassle (especially with ad programs) and does a few more interesting things besides.
Look at it this way, it's free so why not try it?
Firefox - Rediscover the web
Jack's not Dutch!!!
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Well stone the crows, Jack is actually Belgian. We've been in some doubt as to the rescue centre's claims that Jack was a Dutch Shepherd for some time, especialy since from all we've found out the breed is extremely rare. We finally got around to contacting the National Dog Tattoo Register this week and they told us that Jack was registered by his breeder as a Belgian Malinois. Well there you go.
Jack is starting to settle into his new home though he still suffers from separation anxiety and has a tendancy to chew anything he can when we're not there. We are using various strategies suggeted by our wonderful (and long suffering in the case of Sabre) vet. This is not, I should point out the practice that carried out Jack's snip.
Wedding Bells
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Well we did it. Zakala & Jay got hitched last week and a mighty fine time was had by all - at least that's what everyone tells us.
We've spent a wonderful honeymoon week with the dogs in North Wales, but now we have to go back to work :(
Piccies and video will be available later on on the main website!
My shiny new black 1000cc blog
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Touch it.
Stroke it.
You can't!
See how it almost absorbs the light....
But it still steers like a cow.
It is, however, now licesed under Creative Commons.
Some rights reserved.
Illegal downloading 'costs UK £650m'
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And if we turn off the internet tomorrow will the record companies make £650m more next year? No. Absolutely not. Are all the illegal downloaders saving the money they would have spent on CDs in offshore accounts? NO.
It is disposable income we are talking about and with consumer debt in the UK increasing year on year I think we can be pretty sure that this amount, and more, is being disposed of. People are just spending it on other things - DVDs, cinema tickets (cinema going is apparently on the rise), PC and console games, Bratz dolls, and everything else consumer Britain is told it "must" have.
CD sales have been falling for years and whilst P2P may be exacerbating the fact perhaps the BPIs members might want to think about changing their 50 year old business model to meet 21st century technology.
Do I download tracks via P2P? Occasionally. Do most of them end up in the recycle bin? Yes. Do I spend more on CDs than I might have done because of hearing those tracks? Probably not, but I am more likely to purchase music from artists who's tracks I've heard. So good news for artists, bad news for the BPI's business model.
Could I use the radio or an in-store listening post to do the same? Not for independent labels and artists that haven't had the vast resources of the big record companies to hype their music into the charts. So, even better for the small guys and worse news for the big 5 (4? 3?).
Now ponder with me, how much of that £650m was spent trying to garner chart success for manufactured acts last year?