Posts Tagged ‘news’
Observations 04-2009
Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Ian Gillan and … My musical life has been picking up quite a bit lately after having been in a bit of a limbo for all too long. As you might recall, I wrote about not having bought anything for quite a while – and I’m planning on keeping that up – [...]
Observations 03-2009
(01) Rising Curtain: “The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back” Yesterday I added my “recent” purchases to my CD shelf system. A load of classical albums including Paul Lewis’ Beethoven piano sonata cycle (brilliant), a couple of Ahmad Jamal double and single CDs (early stuff and equally brilliant), the Oscar Peterson Clef/Mercury Box (I had [...]
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 if every fix that is [...]
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 driver’s license, I still have [...]
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 the first hour or so, [...]
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 again. Suffice it to [...]
Version 2.0 Approaching!
I’ve talked about it often enough and have, also often enough, expressed my frustration with getting a new version of livingwithmusic.com out the door. I’ve whined, I’ve bawled at times, I screamed, yelled and pulled out the little hair that God had granted me for my last few decades (hopefully) on this planet. Ever since [...]
Jump Jive And Wail
Note: In Germany, it’s downright dangerous to post a link to any copyrighted material, with greedy lawyers on everyone’s backside and labels trying to cash in from low-profile sites to compensate for huge losses they brought down on their own bloody heads, but I’ll risk it: Check out the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s version of the [...]
Web Design Is A Pain In The Ass
As you may have noticed, things have gotten a bit quiet on the livingwithmusic.com front lately. Besides the technical issues I’ve been experiencing with my current web host, issues which have temporarily been fixed, the reason for the silence is quite simple: I’m not satisfied with my site anymore, at all. What it really boils [...]
Help Me Improve This Site
For all of those Internet sniffing hounds out there, you might already be aware of the fact that I have had an as yet minor affair with that other blogging software, WordPress. The site I’ve started putting together, a site that will eventually be integrated into the deus62/livingwithmusic network, is still pretty much hidden away [...]