oldbloke's mutterings

From oldbloke

I always thought it was unfair on Desert Island Discs that you could only have 1 song if it was 'modern' but a whole symphony or whatever if it was orchestral. So, before the MP3 culture kills off the album and we all move to downloading just the tracks we want...

8 albums to be buried with.
This is all you get to listen to for eternity in the aferlife. No boxed sets! Maybe compilations.
On Desert Island Discs you always got The Bible, too: pick an edition (maybe the new L0LCAT Bible http://lolcatbible.com/) or substitute a religious text you prefer (eg Alice In Wonderland).
And of course your 1 luxury item.

Copy the text down to here into your own journal, and append your list. Prepend a From [your name] line, keeping any that are there already, so we can track how it propagates...

Needed a day to think about this, but actually the choices were pretty simple in the end. Except I had to leave out the Stones' Goats Head Soup to get the other stuff in.
In no particular order:

The Feeling, 12 Stops And Home
Alabama 3, Exile On Coldharbour Lane
Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
The Eagles, Desperado
Captain Beefheart, The Spotlight Kid
The Allman Brothers, Eat A Peach (or maybe Brothers And Sisters I'll have to go and play them both a few times before I finally decide)
Soft Machine, 7 (or 6, see comment above)
Steely Dan, Countdown To Ecstasy (or one of the better compilations if I can get away with it)

Religious text: The Laws Of Form, by Prof G Spencer Brown (ostensibly mathematics, but that's what God is really anyway)

Luxury: Gibson Les Paul + amp

Current flap here is some phishing emails, claiming to be from eBay. They 'confirm' a change of email address request, and contain an IP belonging to us. Mostly, people are bemused, as half the targets don't even have an eBay account, but we've had one woman who's (apparently) reported our head of comms to the police (since all our IPs are ultimately registered to him). Only she reckons her eBay account details DID get changed, without her clicking anything in the mail. So it may not be quite as simple as a straight phishing expedition. Anyway, we're NOT GUILTY.

There's another one, though, where we are a bit guilty. Did you know that retailers pay Kelkoo and Shopping.com 50p each time somebody clicks the Compare Prices button? Don't misuse that info, please... 4 machines here have been whacking a certain retailer rather hard in the last couple of days, and they're not happy. Other retailers may be getting hit too, for all I know. Apparently the shopping websites sometimes pay people a fraction of their 50p to do it, to get their web scores up or something.

And something that may just be a rumour. If you get an email from your favourite poker site saying somebody's been trying to connect with your username from a known-to-be-iffy IP, or somesuch, and please install this security patch... After you do somebody else can see your hole cards when you play poker online!