Wordpress Tangents

Wednesday Morning Update

thicke — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:45:45 +0000

Mobile post sent by thicke using Utterz. Replies. mp3

Just a reminder…..

thicke — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:48:37 +0000

My real blog is over here…..

Why I love comments on Digg.

thicke — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:08:17 +0000

And this is a perfect example of why I love to read comments on Digg. Someone posts a YouTube video where a cheerleader falls flat on her back in a parking lot they start arguing over if “asphalt” can be called “concrete” or not…..

Random iTunes Playlist

thicke — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:10:13 +0000

One of my favorite blogs is Dappled things:

Fr Jim Tucker, generation X, priest of the Diocese of Arlington, in Northern Virginia.

Fr. Jim just recently did a post where he played his iPod in shuffle mode for ten songs then posted the list. I think it might be from a meme because he also posted the rules:

Get your ipod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel! Maybe link the songs to online music stores for readers’ convenience.

So, without much ado here’s my list. I’ve added as much commentary as I could.

Would? – Alice in Chains | I’ve loved this song ever since seeing them here in Nashville back in 90 something. This is the “unplugged verssion”.
Got to get you into my life – The Beatles | The song is older than me and has been one that I’ve sung along to since I was old enough to talk.
This is not a love song – PiL | Anyone who knew me in high school knows I was always a Johnny R fan. It’s not surprising one of his songs showed up.
You’re gonna change, or I’m gonna leave – Tom Petty | I know at least three people out there will be surprised to find out I’m a huge Hank fan (SR only of course). I’ve also always like Tom Petty too, so it’s natural that I have this great version of a timeless classic in my library.
Game of love – Santana and Michelle Branch | Nothing to see here, move along…But in all seriousness, if Fr. Jim can publish his list with a Morrissey song on it, I shouldn’t feel too cheesy for this one.
Warsaw – Joy Divison | One of the few of this bands songs I actually like. It has much more of a punk rock feel than most off their others.
Feel the pain – The Damned | Not exactly one of my favorite tracks by this band…..But I still love it.
Back in the USSR – The Beatles | It is what it is….A parody of political tensions at the time and pop music from the competition.
Evolution – SubHuMans | One of my favorite bands back in the day that no one else seemed to like.
Trust Me – Jesus Jones | Oh? And why should we trust you Mr. Edwards???? Really though, this band and EMF are about the closest you can get to PWEI without actually being PWEI. Since PWEI are like you know my favorite band, I have to like Jesus Jones….

So there it is, flame if you like. I’d do this one more often, but it’s too much work. :p

I might do another top whatever played list. Those are easy.

New Blog and New Software

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:59 +0000

Well, if you’re reading this it means I was able to use Marsedit to post on this, my new WordPress.com blog.

So far I really dig Marsedit. It does everything I need it to do as far ass blogging goes. The only grip I have about it, is that when you’ve got a draft post on the blog (I mean one that has been saved as a draft in WordPress), if you edit that draft and “Send to Weblog” from within Marsedit, the post will not get a post slug. This means all links to the post will be broken. I also noticed that after doing three succh posts, my feed catcher saw all three posts as a single post that had had some heavy editing. Now I realize this may really be a problem with WordPress. But, I’m sure there’s a good reason for WordPress not to assign the post slug until after a post is published. I just can;t think of why.