Category Archives: Music

Rock, jazz, swing, punk, alternative, classical… It’s all good.

Blogging is like that

By Dougal | Published: November 17, 2006

Plans by Death Cab for Cutie

You know how sometimes a song comes along and gets stuck in your head? But in a good way. [...]

Also posted in Blogging, Blogs | 6 Comments

Birthday Booty

By Dougal | Published: January 31, 2006

Stuff I got for my birthday:

P.O.D.’s new CD, Testify. [...]

Also posted in Movies, Personal | Tagged Atlanta, Birthday, CD, DVD, Gifts, Hockey, pod | 5 Comments

Breaking the silence

By Dougal | Published: November 23, 2005

Between projects at work (rolling out the largest indoor WiFi network in the world at a certain international airport near Atlanta) and projects at home (building more IKEA furniture — bed, dresser, chest, entertainment center, end tables, ottomans; doing what I can to help Suze prepare for Thanksgiving), I haven’t had much time for posting lately. But I’m making a minute to come up for a quick breath and note some of the things that have caught my attention lately:

WordPress 2.0 beta (what, you thought it was version 1.6? Ha!)
Feedlounge alpha 5 (faster, more new features)
Feedlounge switches from MySQL to PostgreSQL
American Edit (Dean Gray does mashups of songs from Green Day’s “American Idiot”) [Update Nov. [...]

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Christmas, FeedLounge, Feeds, Google, iPod, Mashups, Memes, PHP, PSP, RSS, Tivo, Video, WordPress | 7 Comments

A brief musical interlude

By Dougal | Published: August 2, 2005

Mahna mahna!

Also posted in Fun | 2 Comments

Now playing…

By Dougal | Published: July 7, 2005

About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. I looked at various canned code solutions, but I usually like doing these things myself. But it wasn’t a high priority, so I just tinkered with it here and there, and never really finished it up.

Since then, I’ve changed jobs, moved into a new house, switched from Winamp to iTunes, and I generally have had less free time available. [...]

Also posted in Tech | Tagged Amazon, Commerce, iTunes, Media, MP3, PHP, plugin, Programming, this-site, Web | 14 Comments

Warnings and Promises

By Dougal | Published: June 20, 2005

Glenn McDonald has written an excellent open letter to the music industry titled Warnings and Promises, explaining what he’s been “stealing” from them, and why.

I have been one of the last independent apologists for a moral kernel, elusive now to perhaps the point of imagination, in your corrupt and desperate retreat, but now even I have given up. I still buy, but now I also steal. You have forfeited your right to my loyalty. And maybe you’re too lost and beaten to care, and even more likely it’s too late to matter, but for a few minutes I’m going to pretend that neither of those things are so. [...]

Posted in Music | Tagged MP3 | 6 Comments

Musical Baton

By Dougal | Published: May 19, 2005

Thanks to the magic of Technorati and a little bit of ego surfing, I discovered that Mike Papageorge of Fiftyfoureleven passed me a musical baton a couple of days ago, but I missed it until now. I’m not sure how, because I keep up with that site… So, two days late, here are my answers:

Total volume of music files on my computer:: 5.6GB. . [...]

Also posted in Fun | Tagged Memes, Technorati, Web, WordPress | 1 Comment

Happy birthday to me

By Dougal | Published: January 31, 2005

Lexar Media 512 MB JumpDrive Secure USB 2.0 (JDS512-432)

Lexar 512MB JumpDrive

Peter Gabriel, Hit/Miss

Yesterday was my birthday. [...]

Also posted in Electronics, Personal | Tagged armyofdarkness, Birthday, brucecampbell, Comics, Embroidery, Gifts, jumpdrive, petergabriel, pod | 4 Comments

Fight for Your Right to Copy

By Dougal | Published: October 27, 2004

The November 2004 issue of WIRED magazine comes with a CD of music by major artists. All of the songs are available under a Creative Commons license, and are freely distributable. I downloaded a BitTorrent copy the other day from LegalTorrents, and I finally got around to listening to it this morning. (I use BitTornado as my BT client, BTW)

I’m really digging it. [...]

Also posted in News | Tagged Web | 1 Comment

Stone Mountain Highland Games

By Dougal | Published: October 19, 2004

Bagpipers on Parade

Susan and I went to the Stone Mountain Highland Games last Saturday. We had been told that it was “huge”, but we thought that it wasn’t that much bigger than the Alabama Highland Games, which we’ve attended the past few years. [...]

Also posted in Scottish, The South | Tagged Georgia | 6 Comments