http://livingwithmusic.com Collecting ... and more! Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Profile of Sorts I pride myself on hardly ever having misjudged people. Naturally, I have been completely wrong at times (and when I am/was wrong, I am/was completely off), but as far as I recall, the number of blunders were rather limited. It is my profession to evaluate people and ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/06/10/ed-thigpen-gentleman-of-jazz/ The Shopping Nightmare I do 98% of all my music shopping online. I know that I'm helping the demise of the record store swiftly along, but I need to save cash to feed my habit(s) and I simply cannot pay some of the outrageous prices my local shops ask for releases ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/05/28/trials-and-tribulations-v/ It's been quite a while since I started a series entitled Trials and Tribulations. In that series, I wrote about things that can drive us collectors up the wall ...and down again. At the time I only hinted at it, but right now I'm planning on expanding on one of ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/05/21/john-coltrane-fearless-leader-and-interplay/ I know quite a few collectors who actually plan their shopping sprees. I used to do that too, at times, but today I neither look at my usual online haunts all that regularly nor do I head into town as often as I would like. The shopping patterns I adhere ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/05/04/zweitausendeins-and-more/ Yes, I had another post first planned and then ready, but my change to Wordpress and then upgrading to 2.5 and 2.5.1 has been such a nightmare that it has negated each and every reason why I changed over to this "blogging" platform in the first place. It seems as ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/05/03/wordpress-25x-a-major-disappointment/ The other day I ended up on Popgadget, which happens to be a site covering "Personal Tech + Innovative Life Style for Women". I have no remembrance of how I landed on the site, but I assume it was when - once again - I was googling for some product. ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/04/28/human-cd-holders/ I had never heard of Pim Jacobs when, unsuspecting, I accidentally hit one of those sites that discuss more obscure music releases or reissues and, although I can't quite recall, the album was even offered for download.I quickly read through the veritable epitomizing of this reissue and started investigating in ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/04/23/trio-pim-jacobs-come-fly-with-me/ Well, livingwithmusic.com has been online again for a little over a week and things are beginning to run smoothly ... finally. There have been - and continue to be - a couple of bumps in the road to full functionality, but although I am, perhaps, the only German without a ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/04/22/picking-up-speed/ I remember having been online ever since the Web took shape in earnest. Early 90s, was it? That time I still sat at a university PC of the most solid kind, metal casing and all, solid gray and deadly slow. What followed was an equally impressive 386SX Escom PC (... ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/04/18/when-forums-go-bad/ Those of you who have read along here for a while now should be quite aware of the fact that livingwithmusic.com is a highly subjective affair. It's an outlet for me, and a rather eclectic one at that. I've gone over the top to praise some of my favorite items ... http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/04/18/from-the-outside-contribute/