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We can has Heroes, just for one day

Caroline — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:41:57 +0000

Was the net slow for you yesterday? My transatlantic connection was completely throttled. It’s a wild guess, but it may have been the 140260 people torrenting the Season 2 premiere of Heroes combined with the 113347 breaking the law for Prison Break S3x02. And that’s just counting the ones listed on eztv.

I remember (cue string quartet) when you’d get pistol whipped for
including a 50 kb attachment and extradited for allowing HTML mail. And I’d be the one dishing out the punishments. Now
I’m hoovering a couple of Gigabytes per day and nobody bats an eyelid, least of all myself.

Are torrents clogging up our pipes? They may be, but that’s probably not the reason why CRIA (Canadian recording industry association) shut down the popular Demonoid tracker today.

I tried but couldn’t find any links to support the theory. I do remember reading reports some years back about bittorrents killing bandwidth.

My uncle’s ‘book without a title’

Caroline — Sat, 28 May 2005 01:41:16 +0000

Last year my uncle featured in a TV show about ‘miracles’. He told the story of how he found a photograph of himself in a book he picked up from an antique shop, while on holiday in England. It’s a true story. This month the show is letting viewers decide which stories should be repeated in a clip show to introduce the new series.

Do me and my kin a favour and vote for ‘De foto’ on the ‘Wonderen bestaan’ website. You’ll find the poll on the right hand side and ‘De foto’ is the last option in the poll (which doesn’t give it much of a chance of winning!).

It’s a great story and my uncle, who is an author and lyricist, does a great job of telling it (well, duh, he does readings and theater shows for a living). In short: About 20 years ago he was on holiday with his girlfriend L. and another couple. It was a miserable day and he hadn’t even wanted to go to England anyway. When they stopped for lunch, they came across an antique shop.

My uncle had a thing about ‘a book without a title’. He had been talking about this obsession during the trip, of wanting to find this ‘book without a title’. His friends had said books without titles didn’t exist.

Looking through the books on the shelves in the antique shop, he didn’t find anything he wanted. But there was one more book, sitting on a table. Picking it up he saw the book’s cover didn’t have any marking or lettering. It was a book without a title! And when he opened it, he found a picture of himself taken when he was a young man.

Cue theme of the Twilight Zone. Vote now. Vote often.

Link it, bitch

Caroline — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:24:49 +0000

I’m going to strangle the next person who posts a bare URL to one of my sites stating ‘I don’t know how to do links’.

You. Are. Online. Fucking. Look. It. Up.

eleven comments:

Maybe we should add a little Javascript pop-up on U2log? “Please note: This is how you do links. It’s so easy, you’ll want to smack yourself.”
Chris (link) – 11 January 2005 – 20:59

Nah, “Link it, Bitch” beats javascript any old day of the week.
Alan (link) – 11 January 2005 – 21:33

Hack the MT code so any post that does NOT contain at least one valid link cannot be posted |-)

“Sorry, page does not contain a link, please try again.”

They’ll soon learn.
Hg (link) – 11 January 2005 – 22:54

As it’s not U2log OR an MT site, I made a tutorial.
Caroline (link) – 12 January 2005 – 11:26

Aha. I took my cue from Chris, but I might have a clearer idea of which site you’re talking about now :-)
Hg (link) – 12 January 2005 – 22:10

;-)
eric – 13 January 2005 – 12:06

sorry for the previous post (I don’t know how to do links). I don’t like it when you call me bitch. You can strangle me this saturday between 10am and 11am at my place. I’ll be waiting … Be there

;-)
Eric
eric (link) – 13 January 2005 – 12:12

What’s a ‘bare URL’?

8o)

S
Selv – 13 January 2005 – 12:46

Hi Prol,
Where is that tutorial? I could use some help. I always mess up putting links in my modhaus emails. Please don’t get mad at me!
ModSue – 13 January 2005 – 23:22

The tutorial is specific to the site, but maybe it can be of use.

Click my name to get there. :-)
Caroline (link) – 14 January 2005 – 10:57

Book that holiday, baby, he said

Caroline — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:59:25 +0000

Trying to book a holiday is doing my head in. The idea of going somewhere to do nothing all by myself is frightening in itself. Having to decide where and when is well nigh impossible. I should really learn to drive a car. (Have license, don’t drive.)

Update: oh, thank god, I made a decision. Flying (cheaply) to Nice on August 4, will train it to Marseille (only 2.5 hours). Fly back August 10. This is my first ‘holiday in the sun’ since the early 90s. Cue thunderous applause.

Pig children 4 evah

Caroline — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:24:19 +0000

I’ve been watching Virgin Prunes videos for most of the evening. All in the name of research, mind.

It’s almost unbelievable that the warped images on these videos depict men, no… boys not even 25. They wrote some heavy shit barely out of their teens.

If from now on I watched pap for the rest of my life, I’d still be allowed entry to music heaven. I’ve paid my dues watching 4th generation bootleg tapes of Dave-id Busarus vibeing out at a 1983 New York crowd. I’ve seen two men in quite queen-less drag jump each other, roll around in muck and scream: “Why. Should I. Be like you?”

I’ve paid 150 DM for a Japanese pressing of If I Die, I Die. I have all the early CD-releases. Twice. And I’d buy the upcoming remastered CDs if I wasn’t getting them for free this time.

That place in music heaven’s mine.

From Monday, we will be revealing the artwork and tracklists for five re-mastered Virgin Prunes CDs on Virginprunes.com. One CD per week until their release in September.

So come on all you Marilyn Manson fans, come see where Brian got his cue. Other Prunes adepts include The Sugarcubes (Björk), Michael Stipe and Kevin Shiels (My Bloody Valentine).

Look mum, our site’s linked from Mute.com.