Ejecutive

Happy New Year’s Eve! I’ve just found that the new Chemical Brothers album, Push the Button, due out late January (I think) has been released on BitTorrent.

For legal reasons, I’m not downloading it. But I am egerly awaiting the release of this album, especially since I’ve heard “Electronic Battle Weapon 7″ and “Galvanize” from it.

It’s a shame to see such an anticipated album being released on the internet before the actual CD is released. This has happened on nearly every other album I’ve bought this year, Palookaville – Fatboy Slim, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned – The Prodigy etc.

Saying that though, some major BitTorrent sites have also been threatened with legal action (and some taken out). The biggest, SuprNova.org, was taken down vollentarily by its owner to avert legal action. The biggest now is probably TorrentSpy, which is where I found this Chemical Brothers torrent.

It seems what began as a blog wishing you a Happy New Year’s Eve, has turned into a discussion about BitTorrent sites. I’ll post some links later.

Update

• I found an intresting interview with the administrator from LokiTorrent about why he is fighting the MPAA and RIAA.

The estimated death toll has now risen to nearly 70,000 120,000. I thought it would be appropriate to share a few ways you can help and get more information.

• Tsunami help blog
• American Red Cross (via Amazon)
• CARE
• Direct Relief International
• GOAL
• Habitat for Humanity International
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
• Karuna Trust
• Network for Good
• Oxfam International
• Sarvodaya
• Save the Children
• UNICEF
• World Food Programme (UN)

The links are from Google’s page on Tsunami Relief.

I’m going to miss Top Gear now the current series has ended, definatly one of the best programmes on TV at the moment. This moment, was a classic. Check out the screengrab (sorry for the poor quality, this is the quality of our digital TV service).

I can’t seem to decided between the Audi A3 and the BMW 1 Series however, both are brillaint cars, both look great, and I’d love to have both (of course, both are way out of my price range for a car, currently at £0). Any thoughts?

Some minor updates to the layout of the menu, and some more content on it’s way very soon. Also I have nearly made the site 100% correct with IE, and not just Firefox.

Also, seeing as I’m trying to keep this site on the leading edge of web design (and lazyness), and probably constantly changing/tweaking it, I’m not going to bother testing it in anything other than the most current browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla camp. However, if a large proportion of my visiters start using IE 5.5 or Opera, I might consider tweaking the design to be cross-compatible.

Update

I’ve finished the CSS for the extra content, but the content isn’t, and I’m really busy for the next few days upto 2005, so the new content probably won’t be up until we’re in 2005.

Saw this floating around the various bloggers on the internet. Thought I’d give it a bash. Please notify me of any dead/broken links, there are a few :-). Thanks!

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I’m now using the excellent Human Condition design by Ian Main.

I think I can safely say it is a massive improvement over the standard WordPress design, and should last me until I finish my custom WordPress template and style :-).

I only had to modify one thing in it, which was the style for blockquotes, which looked a bit rough around the edges.

Have you got one? Have you tried to get one this near to Christmas?! It has been almost impossible for me to find one this Christmas, and my sister despratly wants one. Of course, you could get them off eBay, but at a hugely inflated price. Read More »