The AERO jewel case

'Anthology of Electronic Revisited Originals'

Or AERO for short. What is it? it's the new album by Jean-Michel Jarre. Those who know me well I'm sure know how keen I am on this genius's music and what he's done for electronic music as whole.
The album has been in creation for ages (ever since the AERO concert in Denmark 2002), it's actually a best-of album + 3 new tracks. You might think that he's already released loads of best-of albums, but this one is different. The tracks are remixed and also distributed in pure DVD audio 5.1 format! The album comes as a double AudioCD/DVD-Audio pack so even if you don't have DVD audio yet you can still listen to the tracks on CD. Jarre had to engineer the album himself as he couldn't find an audio engineer in the world to help (www.jarre.net)
I'm fortunate enough to have a 5.1 audio card that supports DVD audio + 5.1 speaker system. Believe me, DVD audio is THE WAY FORWARD! I've sampled it's delights and it is a truely amazing aural experience, placing you right in the music. Just the thought of listening to classic Jarre tracks in this format makes me drool!
A sneak preview of the new AERO website is at www.jeanmicheljarre.com
The album is due for release on 22/09/04 all across Europe. It's going to be a long, hard wait....
Till later, good delicious!

Bank Holiday Monday

11 am Monday morning... for some funny reason, the British public annually enjoy what they like to call "Bank Holidays". It's always a Monday, and I think there are 4 of them each year. Today is one of those "Bank Holidays". So what happens? well nothing. Banks are obviously closed, but other shops are usually open and tend to have a massive sale (Bank Holiday sale they call it). TV sucks as usual. The hospital is ran on skeletal support staff (in other words, about 10 doctors for 600+ patients), and in general it's all very sedate.
I would have been very bored today if it weren't for my "special friend" who's asleep right now just behind me on my bed. She looks just like an angel, but even more beautiful. I managed to convince her to take the day "off sick" from her shifts and to come down :)
So here's a thank you to my special friend, for making this Bank Holiday Monday alot easier to digest. Hope she's not dreaming of another man right now :)
Good-delicious y'all

Come Get Some

A regular Good-delicious visitor who's also a good friend of mine has made his own blog. The address is http://www.come-getsome.blogspot.com
It's cool to see more people having their own (sort of) space in the vast, vast universe of the net. Spread the word!

Boredom

Sigh..... these last 2 weeks I have been SO BORED I thought I'ld moan about it on the blog. It all started when my new rank as SHO was appointed. They told me I'ld be a floater (at my size? they had to be kidding!), in other words I will be with a different team every day/week covering the other SHO's on leave (hence "floating")... problem is, for the last 2 weeks no one is on leave! This leaves me earning quite a lot every week without working. A good thing in a sense but also a potential killer. Add to that the fact that I'm attempting the ever so difficult MRCP-UK part 1 exam in September, so not just being at home with nothing to do, but being at home with nothing to do but STUDY!
I tell you, it is the most lethal combination known to man! on top of that I'm not going out with everyone (cause I'm "studying") and that a "special friend" of mine is working shifts for 16 days in a row, means I can't see her till next Friday! It all drives me up the wall I tell's ya.
I think tomorrow I'm going to electively ask someone to take the day off and I'll cover. I'm THAT desperate to get out of this prison. Talking of prison, everyone has to play the excellent Chronicles of Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay (Out on XBOX, PC soon). This game is good in every sense, a bit of a first for anything license related-they all tend to suck!
Back to the books.

The SEXY Viewsonic VP201s on my rig. A beauty in every sense!

My XFX 6800GT has arrived! Serious power

Joke

Here's a joke I got by email. I enjoyed it, and so should everyone else!
for those non-brits around, ASDA is a big supermarket chain in the UK

One day, in line at the company cafeteria, Jack says to Mike behind him, "My elbow hurts like hell. I guess I better see a doctor." "Listen, don't waste time," Mike replies. "There's a diagnostic computer down at Asda. Just give it a urine sample and the computer'll tell you what's wrong and what to do about it. It takes ten seconds and costs five pounds.................a lot quicker and better than a doctor". So Jack deposits a urine sample in a small jar and takes it to Asda.
He deposits five pounds, and the computer lights up and asks for the
urine sample. He pours the sample into the slot and waits. Ten seconds
later, the computer ejects a printout: "You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water and avoid heavy activity. It will improve in two weeks". That evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was, Jack began wondering if the computer could be fooled. He mixed some tap water, a stool sample from his dog, urine samples from his wife and daughter, and masturbated into the mixture for good measure. Jack hurries back to Asda, eager to check the results. He deposits five pounds, pours in his concoction, and awaits the results. The computer prints the following:
1. Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener.
2. Your dog has ringworm. Bathe him with anti-fungal shampoo.
3. Your daughter has a cocaine habit. Get her into rehab.
4. Your wife is pregnant. Twins. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer.
5 If you don't stop playing with yourself, your elbow will never get better ..........and thank you for shopping at Asda!

The XFX Geforce 6800GT 256mbyte

The SEXY viewsonic VP201s

Upgrades, upgrades

Money itches alot. when you have extra money it itches so much. And in this age of plastic money, it's impossible to stop spending.. damn that itch.
On the recommendation of the EXCELLENT pc-zone (uk mag), I've bought 2 things for my main PC:
1\ XFX Geforce 6800 GT 256mbyte
check this beast at http://www.xfxforce.com/product_view.php?sku=PVT40AUD
why not ultra I hear you say? well cause ultra is £100 more and does 5 frames more. NOT WORTH IT if you ask me
2\ now this one I'm excited about. I finally caved in and decided to jump the CRT and go for the ever-sexy LCD monitor. Since the 16ms response time is affordable nowadays (essential for any gamer, anything more than 16ms and you get "ghost" images on screen), I decided to invest in another pc-zone recommendation: the viewsonic vp201s 20" LCD.
Check this beauty out at http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/UK/Products/LCDProf/VP201s.htm

Problem is, I still haven't received this stuff :( XFX reaches tomorrow I hope, and the monitor is due for Thursday.... half life 2 could never come at a better time!

Till later y'all.....

Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Well, at long-f***ing last, the new album by the Prodigy is finally upon us. Doesn't sound like it needed 7 years to make, but Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is a back-to-the-roots album from the excellent team. Missing out on both Keith and Max, Liam adds a few guests but makes music just like the great Jilted Generation 10 years ago!
A great album for techno/proj lovers all over. If you're expecting another Fat of the Land though, you'll be disappointed. This isn't angry rock, it's just pure techno heaven!

The TomTom GO installed in my car (read below)

Tomtom GO

Call it stupidity, call it impulse buying, but once I saw this thing I had to get one. It's a great car sat-nav system that's really easy to use and doesn't need any professional installation!
Real plug-and-play if you ask me. So, what does it do? well it's supplied with a map of great britain, including all major Points of Interest (eg cash machines, restaurants, parking, repair, hospitals, theme parks and tons more). You can either tell it to take you from A to B, or even better ask it to find the closest point of interest and it'll show you how to navigate there. It has a real-time 3D interactive map and gives clear voice and visual instructions on what to do next (in a sexy voice nontheless).
All in all, a great product that all drivers must have!

Just thought I'ld post this: the final design for Nintendo's EXCELLENT DS system!

PSU

Just thought I'ld update the blog with PC news.
I'm happily typing away on my main PC at last! Went down to PCWORLD today and got me a 500w (not v - thanks Hackers :p) PSU. It's bog-standard, nothing fancy, but it does the job quite well. Tried playing D3 for about 2 hours today and luckily I didn't blow my arse off!
In other news, I'm off to London tomorrow for the weekend, so wish you all a good-delicious weekend!

My PC is DOOMED!!

No, this is NOT about the game, but while playing Doom III today, just as I was faced with one of those fire-ball throwing things (that bite and scratch as well!), a BIG BLUE flame suddenly came out of my pc with a massive big bang (louder than my speakers!), and the screen went black. Suddenly everything was silent.... I opened the box to find a blown up PSU... hope it didn't surge the voltage and burn the rest of the mobo/components!
Trouble is, I'm on-call tomorrow so can't fix the damn thing till Thursday. I'll keep y'all updated on how much cash I gotta part with!
Enjoy your PCs while they work, and take my advice: change your PSU to more than 350v if you're gonna play any new game
*SIGH*

2xH, O

Things are looking grim here in Colchester. For the last 3 days all it's done is rain, rain and then rain again! Outside it's cold, but my bloomin' room is a furnace!
Not sure what's going on here, I've checked the heaters to make sure they're all off, but still my room is hotter than a turkish sauna.... is it me? am I so hot that I heat the environment as well? no I didn't think so either..........
Anyhow, enjoy the summer (if you still have it) where ever you are, I'll just sit and rust here in the damp heat!

PS: Doom III rocks!

Contrary to Popular Belief!

Just wanted to clarify that the lithotomy picture below is NOT me! lots of people seemed to have thought I was crazy enough to post my own picture :)
In other news, it's a busy period here now, cause everyone changes jobs and you gotta get used to different teams/patients/wards etc...
Wish me luck for tomorrow, the dreaded ON-CALL day!

Good delicious!

Doom III manual index page

Doom III

It's 1 am over here.. I'm STILL on-call (finishes at 2am)
Got time to come over home and pray that no one bleeps me at this time of night!
Anyhow, enough whining! Just browsing and found that the Doom III manual has been released by some good people! Some of you are lucky enough to have it in their inbox as we speak ;)
This game is gonna KICK ASS! well at least I hope so, they announced it 4 years ago so it better be good, damn it!

ps: the manual sux :p
Good delicious night!