Category: Music

  • Jewels and binoculars

    Freaky software malfunctions are currently making it nearly impossible for me to reply to email in the normal way, so if you need to hear back from me soonly, try calling me. If you don’t have my number or don’t know anyone who does, then that’s probably just as well. There’s a weird dislocating feeling,…

  • Life as a beta test

    When inviting friends to an orkut community, the interface should remove from the list friends who are already in the group, and maybe even let you know which you have already invited, in case they silently declined to join in which case things could get awkward. More: Brian Dear has some impressions of orkut too.

  • Relaunch as new blog

    I just commented on the last entry but that doesn’t notify anyone, so thought I’d iterate her that I’m happy to archive off the legacy RFB and relaunch in a new clean setup, though I’d have to tweak the search a little, I think. Hey, who added the categories? Good idea! Now they need to…

  • Hooray, hang out the flags

    Here comes President Kill again, surrounded by all of his killing men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead. Hooray, now back in your cells, we’ve President Kill instead. Here comes President Kill again. Broadcasting from his killing den. Dressed in…

  • The great renaming I: the switcheroo

    Once consequence of my “damn the torpedoes” approach to web presence is blundering ahead and trying stuff without knowing what the final shape will need to be. I hope to learn from the consequences and if my tools make the work malleable enough and I pay attention, things will keep getting closer to what I…

  • The marketing plan

    It consists mostly of names, people I’ve spoken to or will email or have chatted with or plan to, many of whom I plan to quote, have interviewed already, or are being featured in some other way. There’s also the web and radio marketing plans to think through. TV would be good too. People have…

  • Salon covering 2004 election with new War Room blog

    Scott Rosenberg announced the new War Room ’04 section of Salon, using a weblog format and incorporating contributions from across Salon’s staff. It’s not part of the Salon blog community in terms of rankings or updates, and it doesn’t (yet) appear to have an RSS feed, but it’s still a fairly kewl idea. Also, I…

  • Make certain the story is not used

    From dmasson on the Well: This looks like a mistake. In case the link is taken down, it says: AP Kills Limbaugh Painkillers Story The Associated Press Saturday, January 3, 2004; 5:06 PM WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Please kill the story Limbaugh-Painkillers, V9991. Rush Limbaugh has not been charged with doctor shopping. A kill…

  • The end of dusk

    File under “you learn something new every day”: The transition to full night happens when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. Source: Joe Flower in the Well’s ‘current’ conference.

  • How to look presidential

    Stand in front of a bunch of American flags. now playing: “Lo And Behold!” by Bob Dylan & The Band [The Basement Tapes (Disc 1)]

  • Email trend

    It’s odd how much mail I’ve been getting from Paris Hilton lately.

  • Iggy, the Stooges, and Watt

    Thanks to shacker I just noticed that Mike Watt is playing bass with a Stooges reunion in SF this December: iggy pop + the stooges watt gets the incredible honor of adding bass to the lendary team of iggy and the asheton brothers in some re-ignited stooge fury! friday, december 12part of the not so…

  • Cloudwatcher

    Sometime when I’m headed to the Berkeley Bowl late in the day and my digital camera’s battery is charged up, I grab the cam and stick in my pocket because there are times when the parking lot of the Bowl will provide several wide vistas showing interesting East Bay cloudscapes or sunsets. There’s something about…

  • Blogging the Democratic convention

    Leading left blogger Kos says, in Bloggers at DNC convention: There is interest amongst individuals inside Democratic Party circles to do something special for bloggers at the Democratic Party convention. He invites suggestions about how bloggers can participate in the convention, beyond simply getting press passes. One suggestion from the comment thread attached to the…

  • Exploring DeanSpace

    In order to help the DeanSpace people document their software package for would-be site developers, I figured it was necessary to, like, actually use the software myself. I got a domain name from sites.fordean.net and free hosting from Bruce Forkush, logged in as admin, and started flipping some switches and voila! Oakland for Dean lives.…

  • New photos up

    I’ve posted a gallery of photos from a recent geek dinner in San Francisco, as well a series of food and drink shots, some Halloween pumpkins, and a nighttime shot of the Bay Bridge over at my photo log, Mr. Spontaneous.

  • Night bridge

  • Two Jacks

  • Afterparty

  • Concentric

  • Coffee egg