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  • Mar
    06
    I’m not that cool.
    by mike at 5:18pm

    Apparently the experts say that You are what’s on your playlist hmm from a quick look at what’s on my ipod these days I’m a flaming punk rocker with modlike tendancies. The Onion AV Club is going with a neat column these days. They’re asking famous types to put their ipod on shuffle and talk about the first 10 songs to play. I was going to put this up on the relevant metafilter thread but, damn I’m no where near as hip as those cats (and if I hear one more thing about M.I.A and her casio based crap psuedo-rap I’m going to break every record player in sight).

    So here we go 2 lists, first a random hit from the whole ipod, the second from my current On the Go playlist.

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  • Mar
    06
    Red Rocks.
    by mike at 11:15am

    So I was listening to my all time radio friend Live 105 the other day. Live 105 is the San Francisco “alternative rock” station, and one I’ve been listening too since I was about 12 which was about the time they switched to their current format. For some reason around 5th or 6th grade I had about 3 weeks straight where they’d be playing Peter Schilling’s Major Tom (Coming Home) right around the time my alarm went off. (Note: this is NOT David Bowie’s Major Tom, totally different thang … interestingly currently a google search for “Major Tom” ranks Schilling First).

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  • Mar
    05
    Of Blogs and Men.
    by mike at 3:11pm

    So you’re thinking of creating a web log?

    So I’ve been meaning to create a new more usable weblog/site and this is what I’ve ended up with. This process has taken way too long and various fits and starts. My old site was running off of php web application I wrote a couple of years ago when the main solution for weblogs software was moveabletype which at the time was perl and used a flat file db. Because of this I ended up writing a PHP based weblog package that I was actually fairly proud of, but never really got the time to finish it off. So this time around I decided to start looking at more solutions.

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