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 [...]

Is not what I want to be doing now, or ever. I don’t like PHP. I never wanted to program in PHP. I’m just unemployed so I decided to build something and PHP is available on my webhost. Not finding very good examples or code out there I ended up writing a lot of PHP. [...]

Amazon.com is still throttling me so I haven’t been able to debug all my methods or add more audio previews to my mashups. I still get information from the iTunes Store Search API, Last.fm, and MusicBrainz. But Amazon.com was the original API I tried to get working so I’m a bit annoyed they have stopped [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]