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Does anyone know anything about XML editing software? I may have to invest in something for freelance use and I have no idea where to start. At work I've used XMetaL Author, but it's horrendously expensive. I want something that has both plaintext and WYSIWYG views, that integrates with a given...

I know there are some Radulescu fans here who'll be very sad to hear the news that Radulescu died yesterday after a long illness. Avant Garde Project nos.85 and 109-111 are a good introduction to his music. This Paris Transatlantic interview from last year is worth a read. RIP :(

I've been asked to take over the running of a small website; one of my first jobs is to find some new webspace for it. I've got that part of it sorted, but I have no idea how to get the original domain name (which we want to keep, obviously) to point to the new server. Anyone know of a good...

Bit of a cheeky one this, feel free to ignore... While in Tokyo recently I picked up a second hand copy of 'Out of Cold Storage', priced pretty reasonably. Excellent, I thought, and grabbed it. However, it's only after getting home that I realise that half the discs are missing: no Blue and...

This sounds like a really good idea, and comes with the benefit of side-stepping politics so it might actually get done: The only effective option for controlling carbon emissions and halting climate change is by tackling tropical deforestation. Cool Earth is a unique organisation that works...

"I must remind you that the scanning procedure ... Sometimes other symptoms of a similar nature ..." etc. Anyone know where this sample is from (presumably a film)? Sorry if this is a really dumb question and it's from Bladerunner or something :)

Mods - dunno if this is better under Literature/Misc/whatever - feel free to move. Off the back of my blog, I've started getting the odd record company or individual writing to me offering me free CDs. Woohoo, yeah, I say. Up to now these have been offered with a clear eye to getting them...

This is the first mix I've done, and it's an attempt at mixing with predominantly avant classical tunes (there's also some 90s shoegaze just to break it up a bit). The links are YSI, but I'll re-up if there's a demand after they expire. Props to Droid and Slug, who's Schwantology mix from a...

Hope you don't mind the plea for help - this one is for the record collectors. If anyone reading can help with information I'll be hugely grateful I'm in the middle of writing draft 0.1 for the Ligeti Requiem chapter of my thesis, and I've hit a minor snag. I'm trying to track down the...

I'm getting a bit bored with Blogger these days. I notice that WordPress seems to be the way the free blogging market is going at the moment, and I've liked the look and feel of every WordPress blog I've seen over almost every Blogger blog I've seen (that's no dig, I just like the features and...

Heads up for all UK Dissentians I learnt about this over the weekend; a Bill currently going through Parliament that would dramatically reduce parliamentary discussion over future laws, and give individual ministers the power to alter any law passed by Parliament. Taxation and crimes with a...

So, if not the Wire, then what? My subscription finishes in a month or two and I'm reading the mag less and less - I'm hardly giving time to the cover CDs these days. With the quality of mixes that are getting posted here and elsewhere at the moment I hardly have time in the day for listening...

White Raven - Andrzej Stasiuk. My own cultural preferences make me a sucker for anything by East Euro writers. This one has become a bit of a cult novel in post-1989 Poland apparently. About a group of 30-something chaps who head out for a completely mental hike in the mountains in the dead of...

This topic cropped up on the Grime/Classical thread a couple of times, but I thought it could do with a thread of its own. There's a piece in the Telegraph today about the outcry of French politicians against hip hop - 200 MPS have signed a petition calling for legal action against rappers...

Obviously Gemm is the place to start looking for second-hand vinyl; but where's best online for books? Is the old Amazon/eBay combo still the best bet, or am I missing some giant second-hand book marketplace?

Inspired by the burgeoning logophilia on this thread http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=1910, here's your chance to post your favourite words. Personally, I love architectural terms - I even have a dictionary of them on my wishlist for this year - so I'll start with 'architrave'.

Hi, another request from me. I'm off to Paris for a few days at the weekend. Anyone got any tips for record shops? The best my Rough Guide can come up with is Virgin Megastore; I'm thinking more like MVE ... Cheers!

I confess that other than the various mixes etc. that get put up here and a few of the big CDs, I'm pretty much a Grime virgin compared to most people here, but I completely love Demon's 'I won't change' on Run the Road - who's got tips for other Demon stuff a novice like me should be looking for?

Yeah, it' s the old authenticity question rearing its head again, but this one has a twist. Dunno if anyone else remembers them, but one of the first tapes I bought as a kid was Jack Mix '88, a pretty ghastly 'remix' epic in which nothing was actually remixed at all - in fact all the 'samples'...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1435715,00.html?gusrc=rss RIP Dave Allen.