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For the past month I've been building and playing with Leonard 'paniq' Ritter's Aldrin, a music production system that combines a tracker-style composition interface with audio synthesis and processing modules called machines. Users of the famous Buzz music software will probably recognize Aldrin's design at once. In fact, it may be fair to describe Aldrin as Leonard Ritter's interpretation of the original Buzz. For my last blog entry in 2006 I'll take a brief look at the latest public version of Aldrin, then we'll discover just what makes its creator tick in a rather lengthy interview with Leonard Ritter himself. Leonard is a thoughtful and articulate fellow, I hope you enjoy his responses and comments as much as I did. Introducing Aldrin Figure 1: Aldrin I downloaded and compiled Adrin 0.7-2 on an AMD64 machine running 64Studio 1.0.

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China Telecom Selects PacificNet Epro for CRM Telemarketing Services

BEIJING, Dec. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- PacificNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACT - News), a leading provider of CRM and telemarketing services, ecommerce, gaming and mobile internet services in China, announced today that its PacificNet Epro subsidiary has been selected by China Telecom's (NYSE: CHA - News) Xinjiang Branch to provide CRM consulting and call center training services. Under the project service agreement, PacificNet Epro will enhance the CRM service level and telemarketing management capability of China Telecom's customer service center called the "10000 Information Hotline." This comprehensive consulting project's focus covers a number of key areas including customer service and telemarketing management, development of outsourcing telemarketing programs, call center workflow design, business management, project Return on Investment (ROI), customer affinity, designing effective telemarketing scripts, and improving customer service agent capabilities.

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