tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27317360549149488772013-02-21T17:37:46.238+01:00We've moved! Please visit http://blog.hmvh.net for the latest and greatest in irreverence.HMVHumourListhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09019081416602168752noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731736054914948877.post-83963653390201193582010-12-04T14:27:00.001+01:002010-12-04T15:16:45.629+01:002010-12-04T15:16:45.629+01:00

In the event that anyone might notice, this blog has moved to blog.hmvh.net. Thanks, Blogger, you've been good to me. But it's time to move on. Please update your links, feeds, and bookmarks accordingly.

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Keeping in tune with the previous posting, we may as well follow up with the announcement that the Walkman has officially ejected its last tape. After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The company announced on Monday that it has ceased production

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Or: The history of hmvh vs. mp3 Like most connected people in the 21st century, I've accumulated a plentitude of MP3 audio/music files. Like many modern people in the western world, I've ripped most of my CD collection to MP3 music files, and like many other people I've also converted my old cassette collection to MP3 audio files. Like an audiophile, however, I've not switched to this so-called

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It's not often that something as ordinary as a few select writing utensils and a simple caption can speak volumes about human sexual preferences and perversions. LOLCats have been doing this for... what? Oh? Urhm, nevermind. Forget the last part. This was received some months ago and almost got relegated to the happy dumping grounds were it not so clever and funny as to deserve its very own

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Before anyone accuses this blogger of stagnation, thundering silence or an utter lack of activity, let it be said that we have been keeping ourselves rather occupied. With loose tasks, mostly... lots and lots of loose items that need to get done before the next project can begin. To wit, a few loose thoughts and ramblings: Received a few more tapes. Have started buying records again. Ubuntu

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Progress update: South African discogs label research progress = 148 objects remaining. This is pretty much what our tweets consisted of during the last few months: status updates of the current round of research and rummage through previously- and recently-added record labels in the discogs database, and pre-search of those that hope to be included sometime in the future. Months of this

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So, today is that other hallmark day named after a certain Saint Valentine, a Roman priest who got arrested, stoned and then had his head separated from his body for the crime of marrying (heaven forbid!) Christian couples. Charming. And what is it then that we should give our dear loved ones? One of these perhaps? Next up on the event calender we have that annual four-day weekend where we

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a picture made up of words must be worth much more. "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however

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While we're rounding up what's left of the current decade, allow us to reveal some statistics of nonsense within the vast hmvh network of shenaniganisms. For starters, few folks like them rednecks no more. Very little visitors as of late... maybe Averell should sign up on the Facebooks instead? Then it's turned out that the most popular blog posting by far is the the pseudo-humouresque,

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C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S. = "Customers Helping Retailers Increase Sales Through Myths And Superstition".

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December is traditionally the time when we sum up and recall the events and highlights of the year that almost was. Through their annual Zeitgeist report, those evil people from Google have revealed that "Facebook" was 2009's top "search query" -- which basically confirms my suspicions that people have become too lazy to simply type "facebook.com" into an address field or plain too dumb to

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Naturally, the question that's always asked is, "what are you going to do with all those tapes? What do you want them for?" Valid indeed, and usually met by the default answer of "Some kind of museum." "I'll keep you posted. Now shut up and gimme those tapes. Oh, and any CDs or laptops you don't want anymore either? Thanks, I'll take them, too!" And yes, people have been eager to give me their

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In May of 2007 I wrote the following introductory blog post: [...] Whereas the previous main page was nothing more than a menu pointing to another list of text- and increasingly graphic jokes and humour, with the odd smitten of personal anecdotes thrown in for good measure, this new! improved! layout is still little more than a blog pointing to lists of text- and increasingly graphic jokes and

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This morning I was given another 80+ cassette tapes. It's not that I asked for them or anything, they just got dumped on my desk since it seems that I've become the guy in the building with a reputation for collecting old equipment, electronica, and media. Ironically, I want no more tapes. Now is simply the worst time to give me any. Still, I looked through them, picked out a few that are

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It's not often that I rave about a particular piece of hardware. It's rarer, even, that I rave about one that I don't own myself. Behold then this very blog posting where I will rave about a telephone -- a mobile phone, to be more specific. Quite in contrast to the industry that pays my rent, I don't really care much for phones of any kind. It's a gadget that just doesn't rattle my cage much.

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Oh, and I got me a domain. All I have to do is add stuff. Lots of it.

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What a hoot!Despite the miscasting of Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger and Eli Roth, it's good to see QT back in fine form again after the self-indulgent wank that Kill Bill was.And it'll be a war crime if Christoph Waltz doesn't get an Oscar.

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Last week the web was all atwitter aflutter about Microsoft's poor photoshopping skills.And the fact that they had to resort to photoshopping in the first place. And a certain something that didn't get photoshopped.Accusations of racism, sexism, ethnicism, and stigmatisation were flung as far and wide as traditional and new media coverage from Argentina to Zimbabwe permitted. Clearly, a lot of

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In case my absent readers are wondering why this page looks a little different, then, well... uhmm! Exceeded my 1GB (free) traffic quota on the outdated humour site a few days ago, so the header logo won't re-appear until the new month.At least now I know again where it's kept.And I need to move this blog elsewhere. SRSLY!

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During the normal course of traversing the wide wastelands and heinous hinterlands of the internet, the average surfer collects not only drive-by downloads and cookies, but also passwords. We collect, we save, we bookmark, and sometimes we sign up.We sign up because, at that moment in time, a particular service or site fills our immediate needs and purposes. Tomorrow your needs, purposes and

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Continuing the previous rant about plastic toys, children, and madness, allow me to present to you the "work" of one Kenny Irwin. Kenny Irwin art comes in many unique forms from using bic ball point pens to draw with to weaving xmas lights into textiles to microwaving everyday retail products into other worldly creatures and building giant robots out of your junk and much much more. Kenny Irwin

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Speaking of plastic parts that pose choking hazards for children, the other day I came happened across this somewhat disturbing product from the house of Playmobil:Product Description from the manufacturer: "The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch

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Farrah Fawcett dies and goes to Heaven. God meets her at the Pearly Gates and says he will grant her one wish on behalf of all humanity. After a few moments she replies, "I wish for all the world's children to be happy and safe."So God kills Michael Jackson.Breaking news! King of Pop, Michael Jackson found dead!On a lighter note, Madeline McCann has been found alive in Jacko's closet.But given

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Yesterday was my 5th 'ogsday.Five years of discogs. Under this account. Signed up and as an active contributor... not just a frenetic researcher.Five years of deciphering cryptic codes and punctuations and matrix codes on CDs and tapes and records and figuring out and defining relationships between this label and that licensee, this company and that pressing plant, or this band and its members

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I've been wanting to digitise my old tape collection for several years now. I had the hardware, in 2002 I got some software. Lacking was a tape deck. Any semi-decent old tapedeck would've done -- providing it had line-out jacks. In 2003 a colleague was flogging his old HiFi, all I needed was the tape deck, and so I ended up with a Sharp RT-100 -- a plain and simple unit that finally got to do its

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