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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 [...]

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 [...]

I made my albumCollection.php class versatile enough that it was easy to just crank it out. I spent most of my time in the last 24 hours fixing up the csv file so that the maximum number of album covers are found in Amazon.com. It still doesn’t find them all and it gets a few [...]

I went to get it to check the songwriting credits as I’m working on a new mix entitled “Ain’t no Beatle, Ain’t no Rolling Stone”, bonus points for knowing where that refrain is from… Anyway it isn’t with my other Rolling Stone CDs so I go through every CD in my various CD racks to [...]

It isn’t out, but already it has pissed off a lot of people. After being asked at South By Southwest to write a new “Ohio”, Neil apparently has written an anti-Bush, anti-war, protest album. It is a return to a louder angrier Neil after his empty nester album. Despite almost dying last year, despite turning [...]