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I’ve spent a lot of time working on my mashup codebase, more than I intended. I’m not a software developer anymore but I can fool people online if I can keep my distaste for PHP under control…

Now in 2019 a lot has changed, APIs that I used may no longer allow me to use them or at least they are not returning the data they used to return. I do not have the time and energy to fix this code, assuming it even can be fixed. Maybe I’ll get to it someday but right now you’re welcome to download it and look at pictures of how it used to work, but it is not running as well as it did eight years ago…

Although I took a long break I’m back to writing PHP. I’m still not enamored with PHP, but I’ve put too much time into it now to leave my code missing key features. The features I’ve been working on is support for collections of DVDs instead of just CDs. It will work for collections of anything, but I just decided to demo these two popular media formats…

Whether you realize it or not if you use Facebook or Twitter you have Klout. Klout.com measures or attempts to measures your connectivity and the influence you have with your peers, followers, and friends online…

The themes I’ve returned to over and over again in my blogging, that I’ve tried to pass when giving advice, techniques, even the essence of quality writing are timeliness and timelessness…