Archive for December, 2005

So This is the New Year…

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

A long december and there’s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
- Counting Crows, A Long December

For once I’m actually excited for the new year in a positive way, instead of a “Well, it can’t suck as badly as this past year did!” way.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Torture, thy name is Dennis DeYoung

Friday, December 30th, 2005

I discovered jefitoblog this past week. Most MP3 blogs I find either too “Indier-than-thou” or too focused on strange sub-genres to hold my interest. Not so with jefitoblog. It’s not hip, it’s not cool, and I like it that way.
Every Tuesday, he hosts a “Complete Idiot’s Guide to:” segment, systematically assessing the entire recorded output [...]

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Some house cleaning before the new year

Friday, December 30th, 2005

In case you don’t go snooping around the other pages on this site (and really, who would blame you?), I’ve been adding some content to the Music and About Me sections. Check out the aquamarine page if you’re interested in hearing a different musical side of me.
Throughout the next year, I hope to turn this [...]

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I’ve created a monster

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Geof Morris gives us the lowdown on Audioscrobbler/Last.FM. It was at my urging that Geof first started using the service. Now, he’s seeding the network with music 24/7 and has logged over 100,000 songs to his profile.
Guess I’ve got some catching up to [...]

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The true spirit of Christmas in Maine

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

No room at the inn

…and when there was no room at the inn, Mary, Joseph, and the baby took shelter under a wayward truck cap.
This picture doesn’t do the scene justice, but Carla and I cracked up when we saw this on a streetcorner a few miles [...]

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