Neil

I don't know how good your May was but I've just roughly done the sums and May, 2005 will go down in aberdeen-music.com's history as a very important month indeed. Yep, for the very first time in the web site's history I am not using any of my own money to pay for the monthly web hosting fee! Thanks to all our sponsors and supporting members, aberdeen-music.com is at this moment in time completely self-sufficient! This is a massive achievement for the web site and all of you who have donated money in the past or are a current sponsor/supporter should feel very proud of yourselves indeed. If things were to remain like this (and I sincerely hope they do!) then there will be no need for me to spend anymore of my own money on the web site. You don't realise how much less grieve I'll get from people about this fact! Things might not stay this way of course. There are many other costs the web site has aside from the monthly web hosting bill. License renewals (for vBulletin, PhotoPost etc) are example of other running costs but thankfully they only usually come once a year. The web hosting bill is the all important one - if that doesn't get paid then the web site gets switched off and is always the most expensive bill to pay. This now puts aberdeen-music.com in the unusual position of having a cash surplus beginning to build up. My intention was to never run this web site for profit and I'm not going to change my mind now. This means we now have the exciting prospect of using the money to make further improvements to web site or even donate or invest the money externally. Being the geek I am I immediately think of how we might be able to add or improve to the web site using the extra money. One thing that immediately springs to mind is something we tried long ago with some success but something we had to switch off due to it's expense. Can anyone remember aberdeen-music.com radio? Feasibly, this would now be relatively affordable with this extra money - especially when the strength of pound is taken into effect (this is also why the web hosting is so cheap just now!). So what do people think? Would this be worth resurrecting for a trial period perhaps? Or should I spend the money on something else? If so, what do you think could be done with the cash? For those of you that can't remember or were not a visitor to the web site back then, aberdeen-music.com radio was an Internet streaming radio station that people could listen to using most audio player software (e.g WinAmp etc). The station was programmed to play tracks submitted by local bands but also other commercial music. The highlight of the station though was when we did live DJ broadcasts. It was quite a laugh I seem to recall! If the station was to be relaunched then I would see it working in a similar way as before but because we would have more members this time round then I would hope more people would like to do their own live shows on the station. Shows can be done from the comfort of your home/venue or whatever but you do need to have an ADSL connection due to the bandwidth required and the usual DJ'ing equipment - CD player(s), mixer, microphone etc. Anyway, let me know what you all think should be done with the extra cash! Be it setting up aberdeen-music.com radio or otherwise!

To us, yes it would be hilarious. But to the hundreds of people leaving comments to other members declaring their secret love/hatred of them (yes, people have done and are doing this) it would probably leave them absolutely mortified if these comments were then to be later revealed to the public domain. At this moment in time I can only see two things happening with scene points. They will either stay exactly as they are or I will get sick of people going on about them and just switch them off completely.

Not a chance in hell this would happen. It would cause absolute chaos.

My recent CD purchases: Nine In Nails - With Teeth Oceansize - Music For Nurses The Blueprint - Phenomenology VAST - Nude Rico - Violent Silences Dredg - El Cielo

That possibly has to be the best cup final I've ever seen on T.V. - not a word of a lie. Well done Liverpool.

Happy Birthday old man!

I don't mean to cause alarm but that could be the early indication of an impending fan failure.

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Congratulations short arse!

The web site is considerbly more popular now so it might be worth another shot. I also have the photo gallery section this time round as well so I could just add a webcams section to that. I'll think it over...

Done. Drunk or not - you have crossed the line just one too many times now. Cheerio.

Yeah, the reason they got taken down was that nobody every had their web cam running. So you were with the same web cam image for months on end. Not very interesting...

Nope, they are mostly different songs. Funny you should mention this as I'm listening to the album just now. The only song I can recongise from the recorded and live stuff that has been kicking around the Internet for ages is the track Kind Diamond. Great to hear the album is finally to be released. Has it not now been something like 4-5 years in the making? Sounds lovely as well.

...no, really. An interesting read (well, for us geeks at any rate): http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html

Read the small print. I've got the HD3 model which claims to have about 30 hours battery life but that estimate is made assuming you are only playing back files in Sony's ATRAC file format - not MP3s. Playing back MP3s reduces the battery life more (I get about 12 - 18 hours out of mine) but it's still better than any iPod. So although it says the HD5 can do 40 hours I'll happily bet you it won't get anywhere near that if you are going to be playing back MP3s on it.

But also surprisingly short. She was only just a little bigger than me (and I'm tiny) and that was with her wearing heels.

hehe..ah well, at least this web site didn't do too badly out of it!

Has it actually been axed? I remember being told at SMG it was only ever going to run for 5 weeks and then be replaced by, yes, Jerry Springer!

Well, I know James is DJ'ing tomorrow night at Moshulu so I can only assume this means that the night is definitely on.

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