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Dear Kristen, Clearly, you haven’t read either the post to which you refer, nor the other posts on this site. I am not running a Professional Nail Gun website. In fact, the only reference to a Nail Gun is bagging the company that supplied it. So, no, I won’t be joining your affiliate program, and I won’t be clicking on your link.

No talking this week, I’ll let them stand on their own.

submitter I noticed this when looking through my referers tonight. It appears to be a Spam Comment entering system. Nasty stuff, by the look of it! I hope someone who knows something can do something with/about this.

Boing Boing: Gamers are better at multitasking And I would have gone back the other way. Jaq can’t talk to me and expect a response when I’m gaming.

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• Tim Rogers • You’ve Been So Good To Me So Far

  No surprises here - one of my favourite songs.

• Paul Kelly • Look So Fine, Feel So Low

  This one raised an eyebrow. Great song, but not the PK song I’d choose as my favourite.

• 3 Different versions of Pachelbel’s Canon, by different orchestras

• Gymnopédie No. 1 • Satie (Composer): A fabulous tune!

• Mel C & Left Eye • Never Be The Same: the song that outed Mel C, or something like that. An alltime great Lesbo song.

• Two Antonio Carlos Jobim songs, but only one of them performed by him: Quiet Nights (Corçovado), and Inütil Paisagem (Useless Landscape).

• Hanson • MMMBop

This was not all of the tracks, but a pretty good selection, nonetheless. You can hear my signature here.

I missed the last episode of The Biggest Loser. A friend taped it, but our VCR is still packed away somewhere since we moved house, and we only have the Xbox connected up. This does double duty as our DVD player. So, he converted the taped version to DVD using his PVR. Except it came out as not a proper DVD. VR_MOVIE.VRO This is a file format used by PVR systems, and apparently is similar to a VOB file, but not quite. I went to convert this with some software, but it failed. I then tried to copy it across to the HD so I could manipulate it, but that failed too. It seems to have something to do with the fact that the file is larger than 4Gb. But I’m not sure… but I do know that no commands or applications seem to be able to open it up. I’ll have to try on the PC. Update: No good. The PC only has a DVD+RW drive, the disc is a DVD-RW disc.

I’ve been keen for a while now to go through the Blogsome Forums with a bit of a broom - there are lots of duplicate threads and topics that could be pruned, and some stuff probably belongs in different forums. The recent server troubles have generated a flurry of posts, some of which were total duplicates, and some of which were even in the wrong forums. I think for instance, that a lot of the stuff that is in FAQ should be moved elsewhere, and have this as a place where a really well thought out list of questions, with complete answers, is listed. Perhaps this forum can be limited to a subset of users, and they can create new posts here with answers from other questions asked throughout the forums. I’d love to hear from some of the other users about this idea, particularly people who might be interested in helping with the writing of actual FAQs. I wrote a significant rant/rave in the forums about this issue… it will be interesting to see if it gets any replies.

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