Update on the CD transfer to hard drive project: It seems that it’s going to take a fair bit to get my entire music CD collection converted to AAC format, but I’m pretty well determined to do it. We’re talking a hefty pile here… It’s a pile with heft. Fortunately, they make firewire capable drives [...]
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- October 31, 2003 – 9:12 am
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The National Party, having long been sad, are now funny. Don Brash, new leader of the opposition after a coup (third time lucky) has made his first announcement: that he will privatise tertiary education and sell off TVNZ (and presumably, RNZ in the process). Who’d have thought the once centrist/conservative party would go further right [...]
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- October 30, 2003 – 10:18 pm
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The Herald’s Peter Griffin has written this article in which he says: In the next few years we’ll discover that the set-top box will be the hub through which all of the electronic content we indulge in – television, movies, digital radio stations, high-speed internet, telephony and gaming – is delivered to us. Mostly, he [...]
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- October 28, 2003 – 1:09 pm
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Further to the last post – the one I’ve only just this minute finished writing – my esteemed colleague Mr Matt Mollgaard sends me this link: New Nokia Radio Phone …which not only has an FM tuner built in, but will record AAC format files from an external source. Now the next question has to [...]
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- October 27, 2003 – 11:21 pm
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- By dubber