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The female of the species

Caroline — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:35:01 +0000

My Amy Winehouse pictures get favourited a lot on Flickr. Mostly by women. Does Amy, like Sinead, scare the hell out of most boys?

Separated at birth

Caroline — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:10:19 +0000

Watching this week’s House I was surprised by the likeness between these two actors, though D.B. Sweeney looks very different from Stephen Rea in his (younger) IMDB profile picture.

Torrential trouble

Caroline — Sun, 15 May 2005 01:27:57 +0000

Dammit, with tvtorrents.tv and btefnet.net (even #bt on IRC is invite only at the moment) offline, where’s a leech to go for a dedicated TV torrent source other than Usenet?

Might want to try http://www.digitaldistractions.org . It’s not the stuff you’d find on efnet and tvtorrents, but there’s quite a variety.
Herb (link) – 17 May 2005 – 14:02

Yeah, stumbled upon it yesterday. Got some stuff downloading at the moment :-)
Caroline (link) – 17 May 2005 – 16:05

The official BitTorrent-client is currently beta testing a trackerless design.

http://www.bittorrent.com/

Lars – 19 May 2005 – 13:46

Got some from isohunt.com
Koen – 19 May 2005 – 21:33

Same problem here, now i use elitetorrents and torrentspy (only display tv) but nothing good yet.
Diederik – 20 May 2005 – 14:14

Show me the way to…

Caroline — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:02:31 +0000

I think I must have missed something, somewhere.But why is Tony Christie at number 1 in the British charts?

I’ve never been prouder of being British.
It’s a guilt-cd – the money is for Comic Relief. And I think it’s more Peter Kay at number one, and Tony Christie not knowing when enough is enough.
Rogue – 08 May 2005 – 09:48

The video for it inspired this version

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/v..

Michael Portillo has no shame.
Simon – 08 May 2005 – 09:48

You know, that band? With that singer?

Caroline — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:01:04 +0000

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

Can you remember any of the song titles?

Futureheads maybe? Killers? Not sure about the Tom Jones thing though..
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

No, can’t remember anything. Other than it isn’t the Killers or the Futureheads, or Interpol, or Bloc Party. They’re not one of the ‘new new wave’ bands, afaik.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Electric Six? Tom Jones?? ;-)
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

I’m not the only one who thinks so:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m..

Check out the song Future is in the Future – where it’s most noticeable.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Ever tried MusicBrainz? It’ll analyse an MP3 and tell you what song it is. It works pretty well. On Mac there’s something called IEatBrainz that’ll take your iTunes library and let you ID any song. I’m sure there’s something similar on the PC.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

That wasn’t really the problem. The files were properly named, but they were at work and I was at home.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Aaah, fair enough. Anyway, from what I see, I should have assumed you’d be on top of such things.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Have you heard their first album, “Fire”?
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

No, I haven’t, should I?
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

It’s a lot more fun than this one, so… maybe.
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

I heard the singles from the first album, this album is completely different. I downloaded it after you wrote about it. Sounds nice.
Tom (link) – 08 May 2005 – 09:54

Wanted: shipping advice

Caroline — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:02:00 +0000

I’m looking to ship about 50 books and some t-shirts from Dublin to Amsterdam. I’m told surface shipping is the cheapest, but I contacted a company and got quoted £390. Does anyone have any experience in this?

seven comments:

Yep. Call someone that does cargo services. When I moved back and forth, I looked around. Basically, you box it all up (crates are better, it needs to be really really sturdy). They collected it, stuck it onto a pallet and delivered it at my new address. Can’t remember what it cost me, but I don’t think it was even half of that for about 20 boxes.

For 390 quid it’s cheaper to fly back and forth and just pay for the extra luggage costs (if any. How much do 50 books weigh?)
e – 27 January 2005 – 16:08

We ship furniture all over the world with BAX Global. They do have service in Dublin and Amsterdam. Try http://www.baxworld.com.. Actually these days I find air shipment is cheaper than surface. You will need to know the size and weight of the package to get an accurate quote. Good luck!

I like “squiggle e”’s suggestion that you fly over there though.
ModSue – 27 January 2005 – 16:42

50 books I think weigh about 20 to 25 kilos? I reckon 300grams a book.
Caroline (link) – 27 January 2005 – 17:18

Do you have one copy of the book yourself? Just weigh that, and then multiply. Same with T-shirt…

And estimate size of the box.
ModSue – 27 January 2005 – 17:21

¤390 Sound way too much to me. I shiped 5 boxes of books 25kg each for around about €150.- to Bratislava with TGP.
Kid A – 27 January 2005 – 19:46

I’d try UPS. Depneding on which service you choose, package weight, the value of the package and wether or not you use own or use theirs. It should cost somewhere between £70 and £150 and take between 24 or 72 hours.
Nick – 27 January 2005 – 21:38

Thanks for all the advice!
Caroline (link) – 27 January 2005 – 23:16