RasterWeb!It is now officially my birthday, and Vinny is the winner, and by that I mean that the only gift I have thus far received has been from him, and it was the Fugazi Instrument DVD, which is a freakin’ awesome gift! (Thanks Vinny!)
As for the rest of you… You’ve got about 23 and a half hours to prevent me from crying while sitting alone watching the freakin’ awesome Fugazi Instrument DVD…
I’ve been working on generating XSPF files for WordPress, which is really only useful if you run a WordPress site and do a podcast. Is that you? If so, please get in touch with me.
As a side-effect of generating XSPF, it should be very trivial to embed the XSPF Web Music Player into a page on your site. (The player is open-source, and has a BSD License which allows it’s use even for commercial purposes.)
So if you’ve got a podcast, use WordPress 1.5.x, want a player on your site, and can drop a few files into place, let me know.
(Oh! If you are a WordPress Hacker and want to help me with this, please contact me, as my code is not up to WP-standards and I’d like to have some input on it. Thanks!)
Over at Amazon there is this page for The Anarchist Cookbook which has this long tirade from the author about how he basically wants it to “go away” and says he’s changed his view on things, and other such crap…
I say “crap” because I used to own this book, and as someone who believes in free speech, freedom of the press, the internet, the power of the people to take over media, and all those other things, I can’t help but feel like he missed the point. The point is not that The Anarchist Cookbook exists to show you how to blow things up, the point is that we (supposedly) live in a country (we in the US anyway) where you can publish such things, and not be afraid of disappearing in the night, or having the Secret Service visit you at work and it’s ok to change your mind and change your views but you can’t wave a magic wand and making things go away.
Those of us who use the internet know that nowadays once you put it out there, it’s out there. It’s indexed, and filed, and stamped, and collated, and archived. You can try to make it disappear, but don’t count on it. The best you can do, oddly enough, is pretty much what he did. Write about what you currently think, state your case for the record, let be known your current viewpoint, but in all this realize that you can’t control the world. You can try, but you’ll fail every time…
I’m really a bass player… I mean, I play guitar, and if it’s 3-chord punk rock you want, I can deliver it, but really, I’m a bass player… Oh sure, I used to have a drum set, and play other people’s drum, and it was fun and all, but now, now my friends, I have a drum set.
Through a crazy set of circumstances, I now inhabit a house with a nice basement room that contains a bass, guitar, two amps, and a drum set. Those drums! They make for a good workout I tell you! It’s been probably 10 years since I really played the drums for more than a few minutes, and it was a blast. (I’m hoping the neighbors don’t mind too much.) I just wish it was a double-bass setup so I could get a full body workout.
The next step of course is to get the kids involved, and see if they’ve got any musical inclination. They say they do, so we’ll just see what happens. Don’t think The Partridge Family, think School of Rock. ;)
Just a reminder folks, if you’re ordering my birthday gift from Amazon you’ll want to use my Amazon Wish List, and you’re gonna wanna order it very soon so it can get here by next Saturday.
I mean, I don’t mind my gifts coming later than Saturday, but if you wanna be all official and stuff, that would be the day…