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

Blogging is like that

11/17/2006 – 12:47 am

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. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogging, Blogs | Comments (5)

Birthday Booty

1/31/2006 – 5:57 pm

Stuff I got for my birthday:

P.O.D.’s new CD, Testify. [...]

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

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. [...]

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

A brief musical interlude

8/2/2005 – 1:51 pm

Mahna mahna!

By Dougal | Also posted in Fun | Comments (2)

Now playing…

7/7/2005 – 9:49 am

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. [...]

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

Warnings and Promises

6/20/2005 – 9:11 am

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. [...]

By Dougal | Tagged MP3 | Comments (6)

Musical Baton

5/19/2005 – 5:16 pm

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. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Fun | Tagged Memes, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (1)

Happy birthday to me

1/31/2005 – 1:28 pm

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

Lexar 512MB JumpDrive

Peter Gabriel, Hit/Miss

Yesterday was my birthday. [...]

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

Fight for Your Right to Copy

10/27/2004 – 10:41 am

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. [...]