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May 24th, 2006

..its ma birthday w/e comin up so here’s the masterplan:

Saturday 27th : drink.
Sunday 28th : drink.
Monday 29th (Im 32): drink.

Saturday Xenia and Wolly (well dodgy 🙂 but nice people) are havin a housepardy
(brixton) I think so why not go there?
Sunday Simon Automatic (good dj, nice people) is doing a party at cafe cairo
which involves someone elses birthday too I think so why not go there?
There’s also my housemate’s sister’s (godamn punctuation I dunno whats right im only swedish)
houseparty (brixton yeah!) to consider on sunday so why not go there too?
Monday is a bankrobber’s day so we go rob da bank ja?

Suggestions, freebies, presents, hoes etc welcome!

/Rasmatazzer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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UBU WEB

May 24th, 2006

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

http://www.ubu.com/

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Rant it is

May 23rd, 2006

nightcrawler.mp3

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Why you should always backup..

May 23rd, 2006

Saturday afternoon 20th May 2006: our site goes down so I contact the web hosting company (web-mania).

They are slow to respond but once they do, they fix it pretty quickly – I ask them what the problem was, their response:
technical difficulties that have been resolved.

Well, it was around lunch time today when I tried to log on to purplemass.com and guess what?

The site was down – so I kept trying most of the afternoon and then BAM!

The site is back up but I’m looking at pages that are 6 months old!!!!

So naturally, I try to get in touch with Web-Mania and their response for the sudden back-to-the-past phenomenon is:

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Unfortunately the hard drive was giving errors last night and we had to attempt to repair the hard drive before the hard drive became corrput, during the scan several bad secortos were repaired on the hard drive, unfortunatley data on those sectors will have been changed.

If we had left the hard drive though all data on it would have been lost, so it was esential that we attempted the repair before.

Sorry for inconvenience faced with web-mania. Upload your data on web space.

You will have to restore you data from backup.

Thanks a lot for your co-operation

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Unbelievable!!

Basically, as I was foolish enough not to back-up over the past couple of months when we made most of the updates and well, that’s that…

Still cannot believe these web-mania people and how they do *not* in any shape or form take responsibility for maintaining their servers and then making sure that their customers data is protected (they call themselves the affordable and reliable web hosting company) – good Lordee!

Anyway, I’ll probably write a letter to their bosses but I’m not optimistic if they’ll even acknowledge that they’ve been very very slack…

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View from my parents’ flat in Tehran

May 20th, 2006

And here’s a large version of the same photo..

L&P

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Great radio stations

May 19th, 2006

samurai.fm

Lots of mixes by out there DJs – House/Techno/Electro/Funk

RadioABF.net

Paris Electro Spirit Live From FRANCE – The Finest Global Music : Dance & Club HITS !

erika.net – freeform internet radio

Plays anything from world music to electronica to the blue – no talking – pure class

WMFU – freeform radio station of the nation!

Very varied – all sorts of music with DJs

last.fm – the social music revolution

You get your own online music profile that you can fill up with the music you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station and to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new artists and songs you might like. It’s addictive, it’s growing, it’s free, it’s music.

Etherbeat – the urban alternative