"Nothing comes for free..." ITS ALL LIES!

Earlier this week, my colleague GrinGod helped me unravel the mystery that is 'BitTorrent'. This is a method for sharing knock-off software and films, pre-release music albums and slightly out-of-focus porn...

The key to 'BitTorrent' is to upload your files at the same time as downloading someone elses so that bandwidth is utilised fully. I am sad to say i have nothing worthy of sharing so haven’t mastered this side of things yet - but i am getting very good at just taking! So far i have downloaded 8 albums, 12 singles and a film - all within work hours with sneaky usage of the ALT + TAB buttons to get me back to something more worktime-worthy, like Sky News Shobiz.

Heres how:
1. Download all the BitTorrent music and films you like at a file-sharing site such as The Pirate Bay.
2. Download a bit of software from one of the many sites out there (like UTorrent) to unpack the above file.
3. Listen, watch (and w*nk) to your hearts content - all for free.


But wait - i cant take my PC home every night, how will I get all this music work home? Well, yesterday I pilfered myself this shiny bit of kit from work. The real object of today’s blog is to learn how to install this cd-writer on my machine. It was surprisingly easy.

• Firstly; I unscrewed the sides of my machine, ripped out a small metal barrier inside so that there was room for my old cd-player and the new cd-writer:
  
• Secondly; I changed the setting of my old cd=player to 'Master' and my new cd-writer to 'Slave' (you'll find these settings on the back of the boxes):
  
• Finally; plug the wires back the way they used to be, with the old spare set now in the new cd-rewiter, and screw it all back together:
  
  

You will be pleased to know i only had 3 screws left over when i had finished, and that my boyfriend is now the proud owner of the new Paulo Nutini album... (tis very good BTW).