27/07/2007 by orientfan.

If, like me, you have problems keeping track of your MIDI files the solution is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKzmMej8A3c

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27/07/2007 by orientfan.

I really am at a loss for words, have you found anything as awful as this?

http://www.hotrecorder.com/index.asp?cdOp=BUYVOIP

I’m surprised they didn’t put “This page scrolls sideways for your convenience” on there.

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21/07/2007 by orientfan.

You can now visit my forums, register and post your messages to your heart’s content!

http://orientfan.jconserv.net

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21/07/2007 by orientfan.

What were they thinking?

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

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21/07/2007 by orientfan.

Maddox is back, language a bit ‘fruity’ [oh, how I love that word!]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

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20/07/2007 by orientfan.

I have been dreading my laptop dying, requiring the use of that most useful command, FDISK.

Up until a couple of weeks ago I was backing up manually to DVD-RW. It’s not ideal at all as

1. You have to remember to back up
2. You have to faff about dragging and dropping your files
3. There’s no guarantee you’ll be able to read from the DVD in, say, a years time
4. You have to remember what files you are supposed to be backing up each time
5. Sods law your PC/laptop will die an hour before you intend to back up

I’ve been looking into companies that provide backups over the internet, you basically back up your data over the internet to their servers and, if you need to, restore the files from there after a catastrophic data blowback incident.

Most of them offer a free trial but, being the tight git prudent chap that I am I wanted it free and I wanted as many features as possible [tech time - open file support and file versioning].

So, after much testing, I can heartily recommend www.idrive.com. You get 2GB free and that should be more that enough for your documents and important photos.

You can access your files from their web site, so if you are at a friends PC and want to show them your pic, just log in and download them to their PC. It really is good.

Bearing in mind I am not paying for this I sent them an email asking a question about their software and got a reply within 5 minutes.

OrientFan - staying up late so you don’t have to.

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14/07/2007 by orientfan.

If you’re a Dexter fan or just want to know what all the fuss is about, email me at orientfan@gmail.com - it’ll be worth it.

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14/07/2007 by orientfan.

Contains a couple of sweary words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAX6yi60OPY

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07/07/2007 by orientfan.

Starts on FX tomorrow, 8th July, at 10PM. I think it’s repeated a couple of times during the week.

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07/07/2007 by orientfan.

After finding out about Spinal Tap’s appearance on Live Earth, and given the set list by a very kind soul, I settled down to watch the Tap [amp at 11, obviously] only for them to cut the last song to see some recorded turd of a song from somewhere else.

They then returned to the studio to announce ‘almost all the bassists from the other groups have joined Spinal Tap on stage for their last song’. We then had a minute of crowd shots before they decided to show the stage.

I’m writing this while watching the Pussycat Dolls. One for the WB.

edit, they have the missing song on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJchUEz9IgE

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