Probably my album of the year, even though it took me a while to cotton on to just how good it really was. Underneath the mess of 80's samples and the filter disco insanity of Drop the Pressure you've got some genuinely smart musical foundations holding everyting up.

I've got a 250gig Western Digital hard disk, I bought it just after I came back from my honeymoon because I needed space to work on all the video footage. I got a good deal, but it had one year warranty. 1 year and a few days later it suddenly decided that DMA transfers were too much for it, soon after it became unreliable and I was faced with the propect of losing an awful lot of data. Since then I've acquired a replacement disk, but backup is a tortuous experience 1) reboot computer sever times until the OS manages to mount the disk 2) start copying something 3) watch paint dry for several hours as the combination of lightning speed PIO access and random errors give us a data transfer rate of less than 1megabyte per second. 4) realise that to back up the contents will take approximately 3 days of non-stop copying 5) encounter an error halfway through dealing with a critical file and restart the process. On top of this the drive is making more noise than the rest of my computer put together, so I have to shut it down at night so that people in the neighbourhood can sleep.

Why did we pick port 1729 for our network traffic? 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a hospital visit to the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words [1] (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Hardy.html): I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." The quote is sometimes expressed using the term "positive cubes", as the admission of negative perfect cubes (the cube of a negative integer) gives the smallest solution as 189: 189 = 63+(-3)3 = 43+53 Of course, equating "smallest" with "most negative", as opposed to "closest to zero" gives rise to solutions like -189, -1729, and further negative numbers. This unclearness is eliminated by the term "positive cubes". Numbers such as 1729 = 13+123 = 93+103 which can be expressed as the sum of cubes in distinct ways have been dubbed taxicab numbers. The number was also found in one of his notebooks dated years before the incident. 1729 is the third Carmichael number, and a Zeisel number. It is a centered cube number, as well as 12-gonal, 24-gonal and 84-gonal number. 1729 has another property -- the 1729th decimal place is the beginning of the first occurrence of all ten digits consecutively in the decimal representation of e, although, of course, this fact would have been unknown to either mathematician, since the computer algorithms used to discover this weren't implemented till much later. [2] (http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath028.htm) Because in base 10 the number 1729 is divisible by the sum of its digits, it is a Harshad number. It also has this property in octal and hexadecimal, but not in binary. Bender, the robot on the television show Futurama, has a serial number of 1729. Ken Keeler, a writer on the show with a Ph. D. in Applied Math, said that "that 'joke' alone is worth six years of grad school." The serial-number on the ship Nimbus (which also is from Futurama), contains this magic number as well.

Recorded in 1954 I discovered this in the basement of my mother in law's house on a scratchy 10 inch slice of vinyl. Even through the clicks and pops of half a century's handling I could tell this was something special and after running it through my computer to clean up the audio it didn't disappoint. Her vocals come from all over the place, spanning about 5 octaves and puctuating the music with otherworldly landmarks. Fantastic Stuff

Here's Her Profile Weight: 8lbs 2oz Height: 22" Hair: Dark Brown Eyes: Blue Poop:now mustard coloured stuff Congratulations of course must go to Amy who accomplished this magnificent feat without the aid of painkillers. Luv ya hunny

Becuase Amy needs all sorts of music to give birth to..

but it's worse on the way back up.... oh well time to try jumping on a trampoline I guess.

It was suppsed to be a route home to save time by avoiding the traffic.... but it took us a little too close to Amoeba records, the next thing I knew I was leaving with $180 of vinyl, some of it new - like the new Soul of Man remixes on Distinctive records, and albums from Rennie Pilgrem, Fatboy Slim, Mu and Koma & Bones. But in there I managed to acquire a somewhat hard to find early recording from Dance music superstar BT, absolutely fantastic!

Including the world famous castor oil omlette.... It's just a matter of time now.