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Kurt Cobain estate ‘loses’ $750 million? Eh?

andrew — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:05:44 +0000

Where the hell did Cobain get $750 million? I know Nirvana sold a lot of records ( I bought ‘em and so did you! Which is rare for us ) – indeed with worldwide estimate of albums sold over 65 million, the total plus interest would be in $750m territory…but surely Cobain didn’t get anywhere near the majority of it. Those sleazy, blood-sucking good for nothing record industry types would have just popped a ball of black tar on the table and gotten Cobain to sign away most of the money, if not, then perhaps they aren’t as evil as i’d imagined. I guess it was all invested wisely by his wife…

The bride of Cobain

I wonder how hard it was to scam Courtney Love? I’m guessing it was pretty easy if the first time she noticed was when ALL of the money was gone! Ah well, I’m sure Francis Bean will have her revenge on the scammers.

Robotic Overlord Overview

andrew — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:54:28 +0000

Is it just me, or is there no good way for the whole “killer machine” thing to turn out? I mean Terminator was pretty much the worst case scenario, but even PW Singers’ recent TED talk about these machines failed to highlight any real positives for mankind. Ah well, time to start shopping for underground property and EMPs.

Zeitgeist

andrew — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:26:59 +0000

I’m not sure exactly how much of this 2 hour film is true (a great deal of the details certainly are), but even if just half of it is true then it explains a whole lot about the world and the way it is. Either way it is fascinating (even for someone who doesn’t revel in conspiracy theories), so with Z-Day drawing near (15th March 2008) it seems appropriate to give it a link and hope one of you two visitors (I know who you are…) watch it…

More battery woes…

andrew — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:34:58 +0000

I’ve been running CoconutBattery since I got my MacBook Pro and was interested in watching the battery degrade over time. Last week I was a little suprised to see the battery degrade very sharply to the point where it lasted for 20 minutes tops and often the Mac would simply die as opposed to normally going into Sleep mode.

Date	Maximum Charge
14/06/2006	97%
17/07/2006	94%
16/08/2006	92%
16/09/2006	88%
18/10/2006	85%
16/11/2006	82%
15/12/2006	26%
17/12/2006	20%

Given i’ve already had one battery go kaput and knew about the battery recall, I checked but the battery didn’t have a recalled serial number. I contacted AppleCare on the Monday and had a very breif call as they didn’t ask to reset the PRAM or anything else, it was simply a case of Q. “Have you calibrated the battery recently?” A. “Yes I do it every month” and that was it a new battery was on it’s way indeed it arrived the next day – so does Apple have another battery problem which is silently being dealt with through AppleCare or am I particularly unlucky in battery life?