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Posted: March 22nd, 2004, by Marceline Smith

Despite being a computer tech geek, I am amazed and astounded by the listen-to thing which I consider nothing short of magic. Look, it tells you what I am listening to RIGHT NOW! I can look over there and see what Ollie’s listening to on the other side of the world. RIGHT NOW! We’ve managed to enlist the help of greg kitten and chrish to the cause where they will cancel each other out as Greg tries to lower the cool quotient and Chris tries to raise it. I’m actually finding this something of a kick up the ass as I’ve been sadly neglecting my records lately but now I feel guilty when I see that I haven’t listened to anything for hours and hours. It’s also going to be interesting to see if/how much we all start pandering to the public knowledge and start pretending we listen to Merzbow all the time. Or that we don’t listen to Girls Aloud and songs by your own band…ahem. Incidentally, thanks to NYLPM for the listen-to tip.

Also to let you know that I’ve just initiated a domain transfer request for diskant so things may go a bit screwy over the next 10-14 days. Not that any of us care – we’ll be at ATP! WOO! (except for Ollie, aww. But that’s what you get for moving to the USA).



Marceline Smith

Marceline is the fierce, terrifying force behind diskant.net, laughing with disdain as she fires sharpened blades of sarcasm in all directions. Based in Scotland, her lexicon consists of words such as 'jings', 'aboot' and 'aye': our trained voice analysts are yet to decipher some of the relentless stream of genius uttered on a twenty-four hour basis. Marceline's hobbies include working too much and going out in bad weather.

http://www.marcelinesmith.com

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