I am soooo bored of progress bars, error messages and install CDs, I cannot possibly tell you. Plus I now know much much more about partition tables, file systems, disk recovery and master boot records than I ever wished to. Allow me to explain, expand, expound and exposit.
A short while ago a friend of mine donated an old PC to my cause, as my ageing machine was only a Pentium III 1Ghz, and was quite frankly creaking with age. The donated machine, an off-cast of his brother-in-law’s, was slightly faster being an AMD K6 1400Mhz with a much better graphics card and a couple of bigger hard drives than I had. I decided that this was the time to move on up to Windows XP and away from Windows 2000. That stage of things went pretty smoothly, all in all, although one thing that did catch me out was my not noticing that the motherboard had an extra 12v power socket next to the AGP graphics slot. This ultimately caused several BSODs and misc shutdowns, but in the end I found it and nothing was lost.
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My place of work is recruiting – we need web designers of all levels (good design, typography and flash skills required), and there are also a couple of graduate (no experience required) positions in the Media and Account Management teams going.
Anyone interested drop me a mail on stuff at clivemurray dot com and I’ll hook you up.
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Evil Dave has invented foodstuff of the year!
Whisky ice-cream FTW!
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I just had a play with a fully working iPhone, and I have three words for you.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Want. Want. Want. Want. Want.
WANT.
WANT IT.
WAAAAAANT.
–c.
So, I’ve been replaced in Claytown Troupe, and the first I knew about it was by looking at the MySpace page today.
True, it’s been on the back burner for a year and a half now, but I still counted myself as a member of the band until today. The band went on hiatus around Christmas 2004 for the singer to go off and have a baby (his wife, not him… duh) and then he had some nasty heart operation complications which thankfully he seems to be over now.
True, also, that I had been busy with my other band, but I’d always quite looked forward to CT getting back on the road. The gigs we did were great fun and I got on well with all the members.
So last September I received an email from the singer to all members of the band. This is an excerpt:
All said and done, the band we rebuilt in 2004 is as close to my heart as is the LDL cholesterol, I’d love to have a rehearsal to see how it feels on the ticker, who wants to have a night, either at my work as we did last time or perhaps Bush studios as we treated ourselves to before Whitby.
Let me know if you’re in or out, if you feel the moment is gone I’ll understand, but if you’d like to get together I’d be extremely pleased.
- Christian Riou, 11/9/2006.
Here is the crux of my reply, dated 2 days later, again to the whole band:
Yep, I’m still in if everyone else is! My time’s a bit more busy at the moment what with having just changed jobs and stuff, so I can’t do this weekend – or the two weekends after that!!
But I’m in for it once we arrange something.
- Clive Murray, 13/9/2006.
Then today one of the best tracks we played came up on random and I thought to check out the site and see if anything has changed or moved on.
It seems I have moved on.
And this year (2007) there have been stirrings of more new material and possible shows with Christian teaming up with Ben Christo (current Sisters Of Mercy guitarist) for rehersals. Check the bands myspace site for further info.
Oh well. It was good while it lasted and it would have been nice to resume it. Even an email to say “Sorry man, we’ve got someone else in, hope you understand” would have been alright.
Still, I wish them luck.
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Reluctantly, but I need the money for something specific.
Ibanez RG750 for sale on ebay.
It’s an awesome player and I’m going to miss it awfully, but it has to go. This is the third listing – please pass it on to anyone who might be interested.
–c.
…from laughing. This is the funniest thing ever of any kind ever anywhere ever at all ever.
The intro explains exactly what’s going on. I stop now, you click Play.
–c.
William Shatner on the Belgo beer menu
Originally uploaded by Clive Murray.
William Shatner on the Belgo beer menu