Went to this last night with some friends at the Hippodrome. Whilst the fantastically bodies and named Brett Pfister wasn't performing, David O'Mer replaced him, which was also good.

I can say that I've never laughed so much in my life as at Captain Frodo :) And there is also the friend-of-a-friend that does an interesting vanishing and reappearing act!

You totally have to go :)

I've just finished building a media centre PC. I've wanted to be able to do timeshifting and simultaneous recording of TV for a while and the added benefit of using a Vista box to do this is that I can play all my music and HD content too.

A quick overview of the components I used:

Zalman HD160+ HTPC Case
Zalman ZM600 600W PSU
Zalman CNPS9500 CPU cooler
Samsung Writemaster DVD
Gigabyte Radeon HD4550 graphics
Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint
4GB DDR2 RAM
Hauppuage Nova-T 500 PCI dual tuner
Acoustipack soundproofing material

It's not quite the ultra silent PC I was after, but it's not too bad. The only noise is a small bit of CPU fan noise. At the moment it doesn't fit into my AV cabinet under the TV (the case is pretty big.) but if I get another one in the future then that should really help cut down on the audible noise.

Um ok: