Trials and Tribulations (V)
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 ...
John Coltrane: “Fearless Leader” and “Interplay”
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 ...
“Zweitausendeins” … And More
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 ...
WordPress 2.5.x a Major Disappointment
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 ...
Human CD Holders
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 ...
Trio Pim Jacobs: “Come Fly With Me”
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 ...
Picking up speed …
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 ...
When Forums Go Bad …
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 (… ...
WordPress: Spam Magnet
I should have been prepared for it – and I was (… sort of) – but I was still completely taken aback by the huge amount of spam version 2.0 of this site attracted within minutes of having been switched live. I’m not kidding you when I say that within ...
Version 2.0
Actually, this is version 6 or 7, but I lost count. All that does count is that I’m done and can finally switch this thing to a “live”state.
I’ve covered the problems I experienced – both health and web design wise – previously, so I won’t go into all of that ...
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