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  FLLR 029 - At SDC ...At SDC (shopping.com), which was acquired by eBay about the time I got there. Field recordings at work, not really working....done with my Archos Jukebox AV320 which I've featured in one of my prior posts.  For completists only, as it was an early run-through before I'd attempt to take this on the road at live shows, with mostly disasterous results. First item is a recording from 17 March 2005, of myself and coworkers taking a break from the daily grind on the ping-pong table.   This is a fun listen, even if the quality isn't that great. Second item was a presentation during an engineering lunch, recorded on 18 March 2005, with an employee named Jordan Redner presenting a Java framework for web applications called Tapestry.  It's still around , and is hosted by the Apache Foundation.  Fairly sure that parts of the old shopping.com site were built with it.  I really haven't listened to it since 2005. FLLR029 - Listen / downloa...

 So my first digital recording device was an Archos AV320, which is shown here. Remember, this was several years before iPhones and being able to enjoy movies on the go.  This also played MP3s, but man was it bulky...and buggy.  I previously had a Jukebox Multimedia JBMM20, but that didn't support remote recording and had a tiny screen as well. Unfortunately, the AV20 turned out to be a very poor choice for the recordings I wanted to do, as anything with a portable spinning HDD in it does not like being jostled or moved.  I would only use this for two shows until I replaced this with a Sony Hi-MD (records to WAV), which lasted for a couple of years. So for some reason I saved some recordings I made to it as a part of testing it out. ...including this GEM from Robot Wars which I'm surprised hasn't been sampled by any of those wacky pro-Brexiters (or has it?).... "yes, the borders have gone back up, we've said "SEE YOU" to the EU and European harmony most ...