With all the coverage of TPB in the media at the present time perhaps now is the time to look at alternatives.  I know that TPB is not going away soon whilst the appeals process is ongoing and the servers have been relocated to the Netherlands (and alternatives will pop-up) - but take a look at oneswarm. It's available for Linux as well as windows.  I think some kind of anomynity giving client will be the future of p2p, whether it's oneswarm or some other piece of software - it will happen.

Oneswarm is a friend-to-friend 'darknet' file sharing protocol so will probably take off in university campuses first, you can watch a video here that explains oneswarm.

I have put a new theme on this website - it's called moleskine and is supposed to be in the style of the Moleskine notebooks - I think it's kinda steampunk . 

Why?  Just because I fancied a change.  I have altered the theme not to underline any links and also changed the home logo at the top of this page to a hat.  I am going to perfect my php and css skills so that I can create themes myself - so one day there will be a RAM Theme.

I don't care that:

I was reading my rss feeds the other day and came across this website which led me onto this one. I now tie my shoe laces with Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.

It doesn't take any longer and is far more secure - and I don't have to retie my shoes during the day.

I just came across this great resource.  It is full of creative commons media - that's film, audio content and books.  You could download old classic radio episodes and listen to them on your media player.  You can legally download all the media in a variety of formats depending on your connection speed and how much resolution you want.  I suggest you download the MPEG4 file and use VLC or mplayer to watch it.

Ian you should definitely take a look here.  There is a vast range of content so take a look.

I just want to keep this bit of info handy that's why I have put it on my blog - I got it from Jeffrey Veen's blog. It basically tells you all the switches to download a directory (possibly music) from the command line, very simply and stably.

Here's the code, go here to find out what it all means:

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i ~/mp3blogs.txt