beatallica.com site has been shut down.
Sony bastards!
I suppose Michael Jackson has to take his fustrations out on the small harmless people.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Model Jordan announces pregnancy

One thing I cannot stand is "Z" type celebs breeding. Photoshop images of the mutant that Price and Andre will produce please.
At least the other couple in the news at the moment won't produce. Imagine what that baby would look like!

Super Mario Rampage!

mariorampage.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Have you ever wished that the Mario games were more violent? I mean, sure, you hit turtles with hammers and crush men by leaping on to their heads. And spit fire to burn things alive. There are also all of thos espikes, and crushing rocks and whatever. But that is kiddie violence. Have you ever wished that Mario had some real American-type violence in it?

Well your wishes have been heard, and magically transformed into a flash game: Super Mario Rampage, wherein the titular plumber grabs a shotgun and unloads some good old American ultra-violence.
Posted by Mojo at February 23, 2005 02:17 PM "

Wright This Way: iPod Shuffle RAID
Madness, this is not normal.

DarkCompass Podcast #25
Download here
27mins, 12mb, 64kbps
Podcasting whilst walking the dogs, with additional sound effects from those wonderful men in airplanes.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 22 | 1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned

Not much blogging or podcasting at the moment, baby bouncing most of the time.
Everyones is doing fine, and we're now getting around 3 hours gap between feeding demands.
Thanks for all the emails sent in, we thank each and everyone of you.

beatallica.com
A cease and desist notice from Sony. Surprisingly not by either Metallica or any living beatle.

Save the guys at Save www.beatallica.org!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | PCs do thousands of years of work
I've used SETI for years

DarkCompass podcast #24
Download here
22mins, 10mb

More info on mother and baby intermixed with music from Thomas Dolby, Kate Bush and John Martyn.
No real notes for this one as it's main topic is the family.
Cheers, Rowley.

Got interviewed by Richard Vobes on his Radio Show, well worth a listen.

BBC NEWS | England | Devon | Fawlty Towers hotel fetches £1.5m
You know, I always wanted to know what happened to that place ... now I do.

Little Tuesday, born Wednesday 16th Feb 2005, 22:30, 9lbs, 5oz.
Victoria and babe doing well.
Thank you all for your emails of best wishes.
Postcast (or rather birthcast), will be up in the next few days.

Skype, Motorola Push VoIP

DarkCompass PodCast 23
Download Here
Nothing much going on except for the imminent arrival of the new member of the family.
Music from Creed, Bauhaus and Beatallica.

Victoria is now firmly implanted in the hospital hooked up to monitors. She is getting contractions, but not any where near labour yet.
Induction has started, but it's a long road before little Raine, Ophelia or Tuesday is born. So I'm home with the kids. Everything is again on standby, and I'll be going back to the hospital first thing if I don't get a call.
Waiting.....

No blog today, doing more important things.
We'll be going into hospital later today for the induction. We'll become 5 tomorrow.

Dutch military develop colorful night-vision - Engadget - www.engadget.com

DarkCompass Podcast 22
56kbps, 9.6mb, 24mins

Intro
Work, wind down for paternity.
No skyping whilst away.
Music Interlude ... email me who you think this is
BMI and ASCAP costs on music copyrights.
What would I spend £300 on?
Music Interlude ... lounge versions
UK News, the engagement of the Royal Jug-eared one, and the one holding the puppet strings.
Is this a good thing for royality?
Music Interlude ... God is un-american?
Comments
One from Richard Vobes
Yahoo Messenger
Sign Off
Weekend Podcast?
Outro

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | BBC denies Blackadder TV comeback
Damn

BMI Licensing for music on websites.
Mm, fees are in dollars, and there is a minimal fee.
Not exactly notes podcasting, but paying $500 / year to ASCAP and BMI for me to cover my arse does not give me any joy in this podcasting business. More ranting on this later in my podcast tonight.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | US cinema release for Deep Throat
This classic bit of Porn released? Digitally enhanced? NV-17 rating. Mmm - uncut version in the UK, I'd bet thats an R18, and not in your local Blockbuster either.

EPIC 2014
The shape of things to come?

'I'm a technophobe' - Blair's shock confession | The Register
Not surprising that the head of our government is a technophobe.
Just look at some of the e-gov policies that have had in place in the past.
Give it up.
The only one that seems to have worked is the online tax assessment. Worst case was a month or so ago with CSA, Doctors have no faith in the NHS IT system being planned, just give it up - stop spending loads of money.

Darkcompass Podcast 21

Download Here
9.8 mb, 21 mins

intro
Morning panic
Swearing
Not with Vikki and Graeme this evening.
Lost money.
Music Interlude by ...
Copyright
ASCAP and Adam Curry
PPL, and PRS
Give it up, weblog only?
Ask the Artist.
Had enough
Musical Interlude by ...
Ellen McArthur

Comments please
Sign Off
Leave every thing behind.....
Outro

Wired News: Budget Hike Won't Save Hubble

I can see what they are meaning now, with discussions with other people and the ELT/OWL Telescope design studies going on now, hubbles optical capabilities will be a little over the hill.

Developer working on WiFi-detector ring - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Mmm, bling!

As promised

Curry.Com - change of Podcast format?
Argh! No. Bad Idea, do you really want to neglect the non-ipod owners from receiving podcasts?

BBC NEWS | Health | Left-handers have different view
Bollocks, I was born left-handed, and was probably one of the last few primary school year pupils to be taught to use the right hand rather than left. I don't feel any different from anyone else in regards to language or spatial awareness.

BBC NEWS | Business | Skype in deal with Hutchison unit
Mmm, Free Calls.
I'm planning some more phone playing at home, ditching 1571, and using the PC to get answers, however that ties the pc to a phone line, something I've just got out of.
We'll see.

DarkCompass Podcast 20
Download here
30 mins, 20mb

Intro
DVRing in the car
Dentists
School Run
Long time coming.
Nice new clean teeth
Skyping Richard, Paul, and Geoff about PodCastCon UK
Broadband up and running at home
Too much downloaded!
Outro
Gotta Stop

Music From:
Mike Chappelear - Cruel Weather
POD - Set it off Tweaker Mix

Judgement by Phone
The new way to SMS? Mmmm

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Casino Royale is next Bond movie
Mmm, Niveneee

Darkcompass Podcast 19
20min, 10mb

Intro
Worm Promo, thank you Richard
Ipodder Entry
Atom feed tests
Bootleg Night
Music Interlude
Carling Tour 2002
Godpod
Aural bleeding
French Connection.....
Another interlude
British Humour
American Headcharge news
Sign Off
NO! Geoff, not iPod
Outro


Music / Interludes:
Lost Prophets
Monty Python - Parrot Sketch

iPodder.org
Adam's finally added me to the ipodder directory.
BUT
The feed he's put on it is the atom feed, which I am testing, not the livejounal feed which is currently the norm.
Hmm.
The atom feed works, I've tested it with nimiq. Maybe I should now drop live journal?
I can change the DarkCompassBlog feed to work with the atom file, which will not effect all you lovely people who have already subscribed. Which I'll do now.
so next podcast, which I will be recording tonight, and will be with you tomorrow morning will be via bloggers atom feed as opposed to the live journal.
Thanks Adam for forcing me along.

Wired News: Congress Balks at Hubble Repairs
What's $2 billion between friends?

STARTREK.COM Axing Enterprise
Still 98 Episodes though, not a bad run.

BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | GodPods, holy golf balls and JCUK: "'With it being solar powered, it means they can use it for up to 6,000 hours.' "
Look like gadgets have hit religion.
I will not cope with one of those on the train, especially if they don't use headphones. From the picture it looks as if it's got an inbuilt speaker.

Is it just the bible, or are they planning a Koran version?

Test for atom feed, please ignore the link below just point straight to the last mp3 file

Test for atom feed, please ignore the link below just point straight to the last mp3 file

Oops, too quick. Podcast has now been uploaded to the webspace..sorry for the confusion.

Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill

DarkCompass Podcast 18 - Another evening with Graeme and Vikki
Download Here
Intro
Setup
Music selection, Morcheeba
Mic setup
-mute moments
-more mute moments
Sticky Bits
Intros
Look around you
Family Fortunes
Family Fortunes


Rules
First to 750
Insomnia
Shall we put the worlds to rights
Vikki has a fag break
Baby experiments?
Back to the game
Rowley gets in the lead for the first time
Morons
Rowley steals Vikkis Apple question to win!
The death thing - who's going to die this year?
Sign off
Outro

Hi Rowley

just in the middle of listening to your podcast. Be the first to
call you girl ipod. You'll get some great press attention for your
show :-)

Hope all goes well with the birth. I look forward to hearing about
little ipod :D

cheers

Geoff

Doom goes back to boardgame origins | The Register
If your PC's too weak to pump out acceptable Doom 3 framerates - or you're heart's just getting too old to cope with game-series' ever more frenetic pace, US company Fantasy Flight Games has the answer: the Doom boardgame.

DarkCompass PodCast 17
Monday 31st Jan 05
25 minutes

Intro
The drive podcast, weird.
Richard Vobes Radio Show
Wifi
Internet Connections
Bandwidth Guzzling
Is Wardriving ethical?
Musical Interlude
Visit to Graeme and Vikkis
On standby
My Pods prediction
Baby names (Raine, Ophelia, Tuesday?)
Induction
Musical Interlude
Whatever happened to American Headcharge?
Nu Metal old
Feedback
Podcast Paul
PodcastCon UK
Hire the Birmingham NEC?
Podcasting the Future? Get rid of Radio?
Radio Podcasts
Sign off
A word from our Listeners
Outro

Music from:
Beatallica - Leper Madonna

American Head Charge - Just so you know (Live Ozfest UK 2002)