The Sheppard

Fear my fat Dorset hands. [more]

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Latest spins:

The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads by Talking Heads

Young For Eternity by The Subways

Give Up by The Postal Service

The Back Room by Editors

Give Blood by Brakes

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Recent reads:

Margrave Of The Marshes by John Peel

The Sleeping God by Peter F. Hamilton

Thud by Terry Pratchett

The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe

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Contact:

msn: msheppard

[bitter not desperate]

The Blog

July 31, 2003

it’s hip to be square

Hipster Bingo

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July 29, 2003

body locking, body popping

Via MeFi: the kid in the orange shirt has no bones. (windows media ~3.7mb)

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July 11, 2003

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.”

“Who would ever, in this time of the greatest interconnectivity in human history, go back to shipping bytes around via snail mail as a preferred means of data transfer? (Really, just what type of throughput does the USPS offer?) Jim Gray would do it, that’s who. And we’re not just talking about Zip disks, no sir; we’re talking about shipping entire hard drives, or even complete computer systems, packed full of disks.”

Full Article

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