Dennis Chambers

Buddy Miles

Billy Cobham

Think the drummer out of My Morning Jacket is quite large…and he's also an awesome drummer.

+1 for Alela Diane.

Neko Case – Fox Confessor or the new one…production is amazing on both.

Santogold (pretty different to the two above though ;-)

I thought it was pretty average, and pretty expensive. Would not go again.

I was told by a shop which sold Smeg fridges to avoid them as the seals go, and cost lots to replace.

Steve Malkmus & the Jicks in December.

For me…
Stones – Exile on Main Street
Van Halen 1
Brad – Shame
Janes Addication – Ritual da…
Billy Cobham – Spectrum
Mile Davis – Kind of Blue
Elliott Smith – XO
Hendrix – Axis Bold as Love

Dunno how much you would get for it (£300+ maybe?), but you could try selling on Pink Fish Media classifeds, as it's the type of stuff they are into. It will sell on ebay, but if you take paypal (and you have to offer to accept it as a payment!), the fee's are getting pretty steep and the odds are stacked against the seller.

Thanks for the info Northwind, it is good to hear that the BTP took it seriously.

I would write to Virgin, but I did not purchase the tickets, and the person who did just wants to forget about the whole thing.

It's a shame, because it's the first time I have been on a train for ages, and the train itself was really good. Looks like it's back to the car next time :-(

A guy I work with has used them, everything went fine.

We are getting train into Euston at midday, then watching a show at the Garrick at 2:30. Looks like the weather is going to be pants :-(

Thanks for all the suggestions, looks like it either the science museum or hanleys then!

If your using Windows, you can right click > email to recipient, then choose to compress the picture.

I have pissed in Leslie Ash's front garden.

Make sure you don't have Recirculation turned on?

IMHO, it needs bringing up. What's the point of ending an interview with no idea of the package, and therefore neither party knowing if you would take the job if offered? It happended to me 10 years ago, I had interviews with 3 different people, and none of them would indicate salary. When I pressed it with the 'lady from HR' (for want of a better expression) she did not know what position I was applying for :-).

…the robustness thing is quite important. I work away from home, and I don't want to be fixing the computer every time I get home. They use my PC at the moment and I have had to reinstall the O/S from scratch after they had been using it.

All the apps in the apps store looked like they were for the iphone, do they run on a imac too?

PC world did have the latest ones in….27" screen…looked ace ;-)

Has Norton been anywhere near it?

anything not explicitly mentioned probably won't be covered.

I'd reword that…anything not explicitly mentioned is not covered.

Statisticlly (sp) you are far more likely to claim for CI than any other insurance.

You sure about that? You think more people claim for Critical Illness cover than any other?

The non disclosure thing is the real problem, you went to the doc 20years ago and he measured your blood pressure was a little high? It goes on your records. You try to claim on your insurance, the insurance company goes through every little item in your medical history. If they can show any non disclosure, they won't pay out. There was a horrible case of a woman screwed over by the Norwich Union where they claimed non disclosure for depression, when the claim related to cancer.

I think your stat's are a little optimistic too…

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/insurance/life/article.html?in_article_id=413454&in_page_id=36

If you do keep your cover, i'd make sure you get hold of your medical records, otherwise you could be paying for no cover. I compared the critical illness list between two policies, and some of the ones ommitted from one of the policies made me think there is a whole lot out there that won't be covered by either.

Articles in the broadsheet press on how Dizzee Rascal is the new Keats and Cheryl Cole is an english rose.

Not really home cinema, but I use 50" LG Plasma / LG Blu-ray > Lavry DA11 DAC > ATC Active 20's. I use HTPC to stream flac's of my CD collection.

Saw The Dead Weather last night. JACK WHITE is just as talented on drums as he is with everything else musical

I agree with that..but I think we mean different things :-)

Janet Weiss – Sleater Kinney
Stephen Perkins – Jane's Addiction
Mitch Mitchell – Hendrix

Costco do great toppers. Dreams do really bad ones.

User removed, looking at your website (looks good BTW :-)) you do give clients CD's with the jpegs though?

TBH, I don't buy the QC argument, people (as stated before) will just use a flatbed scanner to scan a print, remove the logo from the print and do what they want. Perhaps the photographer should also keep the prints in a locked safe to prevent them being scanned?

The only real advantage I can see in user-removed's argument, is that he can offer a low headline price? My two kids are little shits when posing for photographs, I'd feel bad if a photographer gives up 3 hours to do a shoot for £60 and I don't order any prints through no fault of the photographers. Equally, some of the prices for prints seem excessive, so if I did want more prints, I'd order minimal quantities, and scan them, because I ain't gonna pay £20 for a 7×5.

Why would you want to wrest control from those that know what they're doing anyway?!

Because photographers move on, take other careers, go under… I want to keep the digital negatives of pic's of my kids when they were young until I die…and then pass them on. I can't believe I will be alone in wanting to do that?

You can, a friend of mine felt overcharged, he challenged it, he got a lot off the bill.

MTT, what not touch Rolex?

People are used to the idea they can do a lot with digital images (digital photo frames, print on a mouse mat, email to family, whatever…). If photographers have not moved on with the times, then tough luck. They should adjust their pricing strategy accordingly to reflect the clients preference. I'm not saying they should work for less, but the current strategy of paying minimal fee for the shoot, then charging for expensive prints seams flawed, especially as if the client gets pissed off with the print prices or the photographer withholding images, the photographer will only get minimum fee, which won't cover his expenses, and he’s out of pocket.

I think most people want to pay for a photographer to stage and capture images, not act as on overpriced printing service, and their fee structure should reflect this, because to me, it seams like photographer is trying to lever extra cash based on practices from times gone by.

Heard the single on the radio… thought it sounded v.good.

I tested cable directionallity in a c. £11K Linn system I owned a few years back. I could not tell any difference between the different cable directions. It's funny when you listen to some of the people on the Naim /Pink Fish forums who profess to have golden ears, then find out they have had one of their speakers wired out of phase for the last 2 years ;-).

Back in the 80's/90's people would put up with this shit, but now things have moved on. The cult of the british HiFi industry has choked on it's own BS, and personally I am very glad about it (dispite wanting to support british industry).

I'd aviod AEG, they used to be good, but they have been taken over by Electrolux. We bought one last year, and it's hopeless.

Super Mario Galaxy (i know it's a kid's game, but it is a work of art!).

Wilco Live DVD, Santogold and Neko Case.

Won't the Boardman bikes be discounted in the next few months? Last year they had some great deals.

It's deffo not an urban myth, because a couple of years ago the Sun tried a charm offensive on Liverpool to try to recover it's lost circulation.

How does he charge his camcorder?