Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I keep trying to improve my various web mashups as APIs change and I pick up a new trick or two. One idea I had was to decrease the number of albums from every CD I own to say one hundred. I thought this would make the code run better as a lot of effort [...]

After finally getting my web mashup code into GitHub I spent a lot of time ensuring the code was easy to read and well commented. The code still needs testing on another box than that used by my webhost, volunteers? I use my collection of web mashups as a test suite of sorts for the [...]

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb… These quotations were spread over journals, webpages, .sig files, and blog postings. As I had a lot of time on my [...]

The TSN announcing team commented that it was sad that the Gallagher Brothers couldn’t put aside their differences for one song during “Wonderwall” but no mention was made of Dave Davies during “Waterloo Sunset”. Before the British Tabloids had the Gallagher Brothers to write about they had the Davies Brothers. Dave Davies arguably invented the [...]

Blind Joe Death was the name John Fahey recorded his earliest recordings under. Now a days many musicians use pseudonyms, but in 1959 pretending you were something or someone else while self releasing an album was near unheard of. In addition to self releasing his first album in an extremely limited pressing of only 100 [...]