Category: Musicology

  • Jazz Fest, Day Two

    iced coffee and four (huge) beignets large rosemint tea one nacatamal (b) one seafood gumbo Big Sam’s Funk Nation (congo square) Charles Teony of Recife, Brazil (heritage stage) New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra (economy hall) Fishbone (congo square), they started late, only heard 3/4 of a song large cochon de lait po-boy (en route to…

  • Jazz Fest, Day One

    IMG_8605.JPG Originally uploaded by xian. Just uploaded 51 photos from today to flickr (the photo of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys is a link to my photostream over there). Took notes, will add them when I have time. Having too much fun to blog. Update: foodlog: iced café au lait three beignets two softshell…

  • Search engine re-optimization

    I like this idea. We can fight fire with fire by helping to point comment-spam favorite phrases like online poker to innocuous pages (in this case the entry at wikipedia) rather than to the v!agra-ific spammy pages the comment spammers are trying to raise the pagerank of through polluting our blogs. Semi-related: I understand why…

  • Yahoo! and Google merge

    For example, here’s the YaGoohoo!gle search for blogistan.

  • Did Hugh skew it?

    Over at Personal Democracy Forum, Micah Sifry reviews Hugh Hewitt’s book Blog (about the political blogosphere) and finds it useful but hopelessly biased toward the right. This shouldn’t be surprising, given Hewitt’s day job as a right-wing talk radio host, but it’s still somewhat disconcerting given the misleadingly neutral-sounding title of the book. It seems…

  • Lazyweb request for help with mySQL (phpwiki problem)

    Over at The Power of Many, the wiki-driven portion of the site is down because of an error of some sort in the “page” table in the mySQL database. I’m kind of stymied now and don’t know whether the error is even fixable, or if I’ll need to revert to a backup. Please drop me…