The Concise AS1967

And here we are. Out of sight and largely out of mind. There is a lot for me to write about. So here it is neatly summarised.

- The long drawn out death of HMV.

- The comedy league table of failed / failing retailers the BBC have created.

- Watching the transparent doublethink of several of these same retailers claim their decline in sales is good news because it wasn't as bad a decline in sales as they'd predicted.

- Pointing out the claim, repeated by the BBC, that company profit warnings are up by 70% is blatant misdirection.

- The charade that is the SACD release of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here".

- My continued pursuit of High Def music.

- How this is being thwarted by skelping fuckers on ebay trying to sell Peter Gabriel SACD's for a few pennies shy of £100.

- Wondering why, if it is wrong for people to profit from illegal downloads, it isn't just as equally wrong for people to profit from selling second hand music, music which according to copyright law isn't actually theirs to sell?

- The moral rights and wrongs of downloading high def music which can't be purchased new, and is only available from the shysters above.

- Gurning how a property company and a shitty generic sub-premium "premium" clothes brand gazumped the only decent music shop in Belfast, forcing it to close.

- Crap product training which not only answers questions no customer ever asks, but then gets these answers wrong. LNB? Low Noise Blocker? Fucking morons

- Wondering who at Intel signed off training which compares the performance of an Intel based machine, running Excel, compared to the same machine with an AMD graphics card running Excel. Adding a graphics card makes no difference? No. Shit. Sherlock.

- More "Tales From The Public Domain™", including the rebooted Sherlock.

- More "Even an Eric Would Serve Me Well™" especially as we're in Oscar / BAFTA /FUCKOFFANDLEAVEMEALONE time.

- Wondering who decided that basing a Norwegian / Hebrew / Dutch customer service function for people who play FIFA' 12 in Belfast would fill a critical gap in the city's employment needs

- Remarking how a decision I made, in response to a short term problem, ended up defining the last twenty years.

- Thinking how completely fucking powerless I am to change things, and how despite going to extreme lengths to prevent it, I've ended up precisely were I started.

- Wondering, if the old saying "any port in a storm" is correct, why I always end up in Larne rather than Monaco?

- And death by bacon.

- And mutant bird flu.

We're BACK!

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