My Oft-Proposed Music Website
It seems like I've written dozens of drafts of sketches of designs for a new music website, with this just one more step in the series. However, events -- admittedly not all that well understood by me...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22967 [22934] rated (+33), 599 [611] unrated (-12).One more week like last and the ratings count will hit 23,000. I doubt that will happen, but 30+ weeks show I haven't made much...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (March 2014)
Since folding Jazz Prospecting and Recycled Goods into this column, the number of records has increased, with this being the most voluminous Rhapsody Streamnotes ever: 108 records. One might think...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 23007 [22967] rated (+40), 593 [599] unrated (-6).Heavy week for records rated, easily sailing past that 23,000 mark. Some of these showed up in last Wednesday's Rhapsody...
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I haven't posted anything since last Monday's Music Week. Not sure where all the time has gone, but after Monday's Music Week I should have a books post and a Rhapsody Streamnotes coming pretty quick....
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Music Week
Music: Current count 23045 [23007] rated (+38), 594 [593] unrated (+1).Having trouble with this "emeritus" concept, as once again the rated count is in the stratosphere. I thought I'd do a second...
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New Book Notes
Another batch of new book notes. Last one came out on February 11 and cleared out a backlog of 52 books -- more than my usual 40 limit. I imagine I can do these posts monthly or so, and indeed with my...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (April 2014)
Another whopper, with 73 new records, 21 old ones -- neither anywhere near a record (November 30, 2013 had 100 new and 85 old, and I'm not sure that's it, but that's good enough for my point). Since I...
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Exterminating Prairie Chickens
For a couple decades now, it hasn't been unusual to hear right-wingers gripe about the Endangered Species Act, which gives the federal government some latitude in identifying species that are in danger...
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Weekend Roundup
After yesterday's post on Kansas Republicans' latest attack on the environment, and the federal government's pathetic effort to protect it (Exterminating Prairie Chickens) I thought of another point I...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 23091 [23045] rated (+46), 581 [594] unrated (-13).Big rated count, which usually means a lot of Rhapsody -- partly to fill up last week's post, partly post-post momentum, but I...
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Weekend Roundup
Crowson this week, following up on the Kansas legislature's emergency school spending bill, which stripped schoolteachers of the right to a hearing if terminated:Some scattered links this week: John...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 23165 [23091] rated (+74), 557 [581] unrated (-24).Very productive week with most of the newly rated records found while trolling Rhapsody for Penguin 4-star recommendations, but a...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (April 2014 Part 2)
Only 13 days since last post, but they've been productive ones: 40 records in the new section, 36 in the old. For the old, I've been scanning the database for Penguin Guide 4-star albums that I had...
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Several recent articles have pointed out the woeful lack of funding for free software development, particularly with regard to the recently discovered "Heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL -- the "secure sockets...
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Woke up this morning with the electric power down, a forced reset of my entire operating environment. Did manage to sleep through whatever the morning's storm front wrought (aside from the outage, if...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 23243 [23201] rated (+42), 554 [565] unrated (-11).Another busy week, again mostly because I've been searching out old jazz records on Rhapsody. And since I'm only looking for...
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Rockcritics Interview
I've been corresponding recently with Scott Woods, the proprietor of the excellentRockcritics.com website, and one fruit of that was that he asked me to do an interview (linkhere). The site has been...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (May 2014)
Last Streamnotes column came out April 15, so I figured I'd play it safe and set up the next draft file for May. That was all the hint I needed to wait until the calendar turned, even though this one...
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Weekend Roundup
Some scattered links this week. First, Crowson today, on Governor Sam Brownback, following the news that his Arthur Laffer-approved tax cuts have resulted in a massive shortfall in state tax revenues,...
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