Fighting Ninja Turtles

I played hookie from uni and went and saw The Simpsons movie. Plenty of famous people there in the cinema.

It’s a good movie plenty of fresh jokes unlike Borat the Movie that was 1 and a half hours of stuff from the TV show.

While doing my morning news rounds (I read The Age and The Hun to remain fair and biased) I noticed that The Herald sun was having problems with their proxy servers.

Since most large scale operations have more than one proxy server I was surprised to find that they’ve actually named then after different beers (coopers, squires and hahn) all terrible beers if you ask me.

You know network administrators get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to come up with cool server names.

The Aged
Patrick Donovan
July 11, 2007

MUSIC to dance to is about to cost more. A landmark decision yesterday will cost nightclubs and dance party promoters — and maybe punters, at the end of the line — millions of dollars a year.

The Copyright Tribunal yesterday sided with artists to approve an application by the Phonographic Performance Company for an increase in music licence fees paid to artists and record labels by nightclub venues and dance parties.

It lifted rates for recordings played in nightclubs from seven cents per person a night to $1.05 per person. The dance party rate rises from 20 cents to $3.07 per person.

Ruh-Ro

“The increase from (almost) eight cents per person to $1.05 … is astronomical, it’s over 1000 per cent,” Mr Ball said.

Not surprisingly, musicians took the opposite view, hailing the decision.
Lindy Morrison, the former drummer of the Go-Betweens, who is also a Phonographic Performance Company board member, was elated with the decision. The work of recording artists had been “subsidising” the revenues of nightclubs for too long, she said.
“As an older artist, receiving those cheques becomes very important.”

Fuck off, if you can’t afford the expense of living get a job like everybody else (and Jason Donovan). Anyway, who the hell are the Go-Betweens?

Phonographic Performance Company chief executive Stephen Peach said it was “highly unlikely” to send any clubs broke. “What we’ve got to keep in mind is that number is less than half the price of checking a coat, it’s probably 20 per cent of the price of a drink.

“The majority of artists at the seven-cent rate would be earning less than a couple of hundred dollars a year from nightclubs. At this sort of rate, no one is going to be retiring or buying a holiday house — it’s going to get them more towards getting a reasonable income.”

Once again why are musician’s now wanting more money especially when record companies will be getting half. It’s not like for every web site I build I’m allowed to charge a $1 back to the client for each hit the receive. $1.05 is a ludicrous amount to change every time a track gets played.

Phonographic company board member Paul Christie, who was Mondo Rock’s bass player, said: “Artists are entitled to a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work and this will go some way towards compensating us for our creative output.”

It may come as a surprise to you but you got a fair day’s pay when you recorded the song.

But Dror Erez, who runs The Prince in St Kilda, was flabbergasted by the 14-fold increase in licence fees.

“The CEOs of the record companies will be sharing this money. Most of the music we play is from overseas, and I bet those artists don’t see a cent,” he said.

After operating costs, the Phonographic Performance Company distributes half the money to record labels and the other half to Australian artists.

Yep, everybody has their hand in the pie.

I use Google Analytics for site stats so allow me to share with you some data from the last quarter (about the same time I set it up).

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Referrers made up for 60% of incoming traffic. Thanks to all those who link to FNT.

Hello, your friend and humble narrator here liveblogging* from the fair city of Geelong. Unlike the previous trip, this one was rather hastily planned.

I was with some friends in the city for movies and food. Hoyts at Melbourne Central was packed beyond belief so we decided to go to Geelong to catch a movie. I mean why not? most teens from Geelong would be coming into the city right?

Once we got there; we couldn’t locate the bloody cinema. No matter how hard we tried on feet couldn’t locate it. So we spent an hour walking around aimlessly until we gave up and came back to the city.

Anyway, while we’re waiting for the train to leave I’m writing this email to blogger to see if the function actually works…

*Apparently, 3 doesn’t provide HSDPA service in Geelong so this email sat in my phone’s outbox until I got to Kensington.