the slightly less serious site of Monsieur le Dan, stuff posted about anything from anywhereblogfrench blogflickrtwitter i’m on most social networks, just search for monsieurledan Tumblr (3.0; @monsieurledan)http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GwaGFzSWicwvoc04VxVaOVRP_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Boris Johnson by Darren</b>http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46821310http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46821310Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:11:52 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GwaGFzSWicwp8sewAGNOpV1d_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Boris by Darren</b>http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46806417http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46806417Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:11:48 +0100file server w/ winbind definitely works. Can replicate conf & performance w/ ad permissions. Woo!http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46676067http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46676067Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:26 +0100after 20 mins of checking conf files, reason i can’t join domain is domain controller was offhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598788http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598788Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:25 +0100woo! Joined the surrey lug mailing list. Will still stay on klug irc for karoshi and usmhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598789http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598789Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:25 +0100boris is on the news. Oh dear. ‘wheels are coming off his administration’http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598790http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598790Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:25 +0100great. Next door neighbours have a big wasps nest.http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598791http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598791Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:25 +0100trouble with work and having internet on your phone- don’t remember last time i used one of my computers, for my own usehttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598792http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46598792Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:25 +0100<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GwaGFzSWicu75p23iywRe4uG_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Cheap way to patch through call:</b> i was sick of relaying messages between two calls, turns out this workshttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46559393http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46559393Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:09:59 +0100officially accepted for msc, so at least one more year of studyhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468798http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468798Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:52:15 +0100installed flock on my eeepc, impressed with flickr uploading! next bluetoothhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468799http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468799Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:52:15 +0100love the way my clients decide what i’ll be doing on my days off. Easy time management!http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468800http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468800Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:52:15 +0100watching american pie, reminds me of college. Extreme day, need beer and sleep.http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468802http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46468802Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:52:15 +0100smashed company record. Insane day. Wickedhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223846http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223846Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:37:51 +0100my round at the pub. What a day. Tomorrow will be even busier, bring it.http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223847http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223847Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:37:51 +0100can’t believe i only just found m.slandr.com, has exactly what i wanted.http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223848http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/46223848Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:37:51 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_0VZGsOahs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x_0VZGsOahs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>one of my favourite top gear momentshttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/45653980http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/45653980Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:33:14 +0100beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/45252640http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/45252640Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:29:50 +0100<p>had the chance to relax and reflect over the holiday, it was wonderful.</p> <p>got to read a heap of books that i’d not found the chance to get into, my favourite of which ended up being fredrick forsyth’s ‘the afghan’ which i thought was both well written and an exciting story. i just need to finish a paul sussman book called ‘the last secret of the temple’ which looks to live up to its promise of being an intelligent darren brown.</p> <p>i also got to have a proper listen to all the drum n bass cd packs that i’d been buying over the last couple of months from slamminvinyl.com and from these, i thought i’d share what i consider to be the best; my favourites:</p> <p>live dj: nicky blackmarket</p> <p>studio dj: friction</p> <p>producer: calibre</p> <p>back 2 back djs: andy c and hype</p> <p>scratching: hype</p> <p>double dropping: mampi swift</p> <p>remixes: shy fx</p> <p>mc: presha</p> <p>mc duet: ‘the dynamic duo’: eksman and herbzie</p> <p>if you look at this list and go “huh?” then i recommend having a listen to this stuff, the very darkest of the uk dance music scene. dnbshare.com will get you started, and then slamminvinyl.com is the place to purchase after your taster.</p> <p>i devoted a lot of time to playing around with my new camera, and reading the instruction manual to find all the settings hidden away in bizarre submenus and behind combinations of button/shortcut pushing. as i’m typing this, the machine next to me is whirring away uploading a 560mb chunk of my experimentation to my flickr. more will follow over the weekend if i get a free evening, and i’ll get round to rotating and organising into sets on monday all being well.</p> <p>considering the compactness of this s12, the quality of the images stunned me and the options for lighting and colours are vast. i still feel i have a long way to go before i familiarise myself entirely with it. you’ll see on my fickr that there are some repeats of certain objects, where i might have adjusted something or changed to a preset to see how different it was from manual. it took me an age to realise that one aspect i was toying with to digitally zoom closer to the subject was greatly lowering the quality of the image and as a result my early photos are only around 1mb each, similarly as soon as i had killed digital zoom the filesize was around 5mb each.</p> <p>i’m excited, i believe i’ve made a great start with this camera and i feel my enjoyment of photography will only grow.</p>http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/44392788http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/44392788Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:52:00 +0100via @<a href="http://twitter.com/mled" target="_blank">mled</a>: i like Aitch’s suggestion of using meebo for karoshi discussion. message me if this gains tractionhttp://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/44392429http://monsieurledan.tumblr.com/post/44392429Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:49:06 +0100