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Okay, cheers guys.  Ah, nah it's not for MAGS.  It's a book I can't find anywhere else.
I'll try this uTorrent thingy.

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Well I'm doing it. It's a shame you can't chat to the other people who you're downloading it off.
Or can you?
I swear you used to be able to do that with Napster back when it was illegal.

Right.  First things first.  An admission... I've never downloaded a torrent in my life. At least not knowingly. I've certainly never used a client.  In all honesty I'm not entirely sure what torrents are nor what the difference is between them and any other file sharing system.

I've come across a file I need in .torrent format and I suppose now's as good a time as any to join the 21st Century.  So where should I begin?  I obviously need a client.  I've found a list of about 80.  Which ones do you guys use?  I'm not after any fancy features, I just want a safe and effective way to download this file.

Cheers all.

PS. I also don't use an mp3 player (well I do, but I use it as a memory stick for files - there are no songs on it)
PPS. I also have only burnt 2 CDs in my life.. and that was only a months ago, when I finally got around to backing up the recovery files on my computer.

man, for someone who has been an internet dweller for over ten years, I'm pretty shit at the internet.

'at yours' is fine.  It's pretty standard practice.

@ Zabnat... do not use 'then' in this context.  It's wrong. The fact that a lot of people use it on the internet is probably an indication of how badly they did/will do at school.

I considered this once, and thought of a good idea.
Go on IMDB and look up some computer games (especially if you have been impressed by a voice and want to know who the actor is).  Then you can find out some names, and that will give you a springboard.  From there a bit of googling will get you to some agencies, or maybe even some of the voice actors will have their own websites.  And then all you have to do is ask.

Where's Trihan?

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[1. I painted the room.]

Generally...

1. I painted the room.

Simple Past
An action that took place at some point in the past.


2. I have painted the room.

Present Perfect Simple
An action that is has been recently completed

3. I was painting the room.

Past Progressive
An action that was going on at a certain time in the past


4. I have been painting the room.

Present Perfect Progressive
An action in the past that has recently stopped or is still going on or a finished action that hasinfluenced the present.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses

I'm not sure.  The comma seems like the least preferable option to me... but maybe this is an illusion because the main clause is considerably shorter than the rest of it.

@Vince - I'd say a semi-colon would be correct. You might even get away with a full-stop, but a comma would be wrong.

Me being me I'd probbaly use elipses...
but thats just a bad habit and I'm not entirely sure of it's correct function...

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Oooh... so we know that someone is working on a story, and that they need to tread carefully...  I feel spoiled now... don't think I'll bother to play Resonance anymore. 

I love how the 'popular searches' bar goes "Billy Mays, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Venus Willams..."

If I was Ms Williams, I'd be shitting myself right now...

That may be true, however there are instances where it's not.

In this case you should still have a comma after 'however'.

Of course, this is only if you want to please the pedants.  Since I started studying Linguistics, though, they've been banging into us how we should take a descriptive attitude to English usage rather than a prescriptive one... if enough people are not using a comma after 'however', then that's what they are doing, and as long as they are understood then it shouldn't be described as 'wrong' or 'bad English' (although, ironically they still check our grammar in our exams and essays...).

There is one exception where the full-stop does come inside the parenthesis. (When the content itself is on its own like this and doesn't come as part of another sentence.)

Notice the subtle difference there? That is grammatically correct.

Hey Kinoko.
I follow you on Twitter and RSS.  I think it was one of your Twitter posts that introduced me to the BlueHearts' Linda Linda, which led to me discovering a whole load of old school Japanese punk, so thanks for that :-) \o/
xxx

I must admit, when a famous people die, I also often have a 'who cares' attitude... I don't tend to be quite as vocal about it as Mr Matti, but still.  Butttt... Michael Jackson is no ordinary famous person.  He was the biggest uberstar alive until  yesterday.  And while I fully expect to be swapping Jacko jokes fairly soon, even I've had to restrain myself (to a degree), out of respect to the man.

He was the butt of jokes for most of his life, and will surely be in death for a while... but having the radio on for an hour this morning made me remember just how many fantastic songs that man had, and not to mention the videos that went with them.  And boy could he move... Fan or not, you gotta admit the guy's a genuis.

RIP Man,  I was genuinely shocked to hear this news... but man, I'm itching to tell some jokes I've thought up, but I know it's a bit tasteless, he's still warm, for crying out loud... come back tomorrow.

I'm going to South Korea in August for two weeks.  Only decided to do it a few days ago.  I have a friend out there who I'm going to visit.  The other week I spoke to her about the North Korean "crisis" and she told me she's not worried in the least about the threats of the North.  Infact she says she hates her own president Lee Myung-Bak more than the North's Mr Kim.

I haven't really got any interesting drunken stories.  Only a few times have I been so drunk that I've forgotten events.  I have, however, fallen over a dog whilst kissing a girl and taken the girl flying with me... in front of all the villagers at my local social club...  She must have been so embarrassed.  Needless to say, that was the end of that with this girl... shame, she was a sweet chick. :-(

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Have fun guys! Get as much on video and in pictures as is humanly possible!