Artists Support Asia - A Call For Help
By now, everyone will know of what happened in Asia. An earthquake followed by tsunamis has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, tens of thousands of wounded people and millions of homeless. Now, two days after it happening, help is getting started. And those organisations involved in this need our help. They need money to buy food and whatever other material that is necessary to help people.
Artists Support Asia is calling out for artists to help in their own way. Donate a track, one of your old tracks, one of your unreleased new tracks, or a track especially written for this project, to Artists Support Asia. We will be compiling these tracks into compilation cd-r's and sell them. All proceeds will be donated to the International Red Cross.
Artists! Want to help out? Join us now! Go to http://www.artistssupportasia.org/forum/ to show your interest in joining this project. Let's make a statement! Let's tell the world that independant artists can also show they care! Let's raise money to help all those affected by this terrible disaster.
posted on December 29, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
My christmas present to the Nucleus community: NP_ASrecentlist: A Nucleus plugin that fetches the last 10 tracks off your AudioScrobbler account and displays them in your weblog.
posted on December 26, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
I will probably get scolded at from the real Linux people. But after ages of struggling with my wireless network setup, I've finally found a solid, stable way to keep my wireless network running. This solution came in the form of the payware software Linuxant DriverLoader.
Now, I know that using their software does not give a good signal towards hardware manufacturers. And if I would've had time enough to spend on getting it to work, I would. But all I needed was a good, working wireless network. And I've got that, with little trouble, thanks to Linuxant. I don't care anymore than I have to pay $20 per computer. I don't care that it's not Open Source. I've got a working network, and thats the most important thing for me.
posted on December 22, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Oh! Fun music! Mash-ups are mostly crap, but sometimes there are really interesting mash-ups. The Beastles is a good example of really fun mash-ups. A guy called DJ BC mashed up The Beatles with The Beastie Boys. And they're really good!
posted on December 21, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Now, Bugtraq contains a lot of people that are not that smart. Just for the record, there are also a lot of people there that *are* really smart though
Anyway, I just got pointed to this vulnerability that was recently posted. It seems that in phpBB 1.4.4, there is a vulnerability in the image bbcode.
OH NO!
To explain my ... uhm ... panicked response for those not in the know: phpBB 1.4.4 is a very very very old version of phpBB, and has been unsupported since the release of phpBB 2.0. That was quite a while ago. phpBB 2.2 is already on it's way. Yes, it's THAT long ago.
posted on December 18, 2004 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
You know when your country is fucked when your artists tour around the world and start apologizing for their own government and their people who have been able to re-elect one of the worst presidents of all time.
On monday and tuesday, Live's Ed Kowalczyk did just that during their shows in Rotterdam.
posted on December 17, 2004 - 6 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
A saturday night out. It's been a while, and now that I'm gonna do it, it's gonna be good. And varied. I'm starting with a performance by Adam Kowalczyk, followed by a nice party with performances by Owen, Apparat and Lackluster.
So, starting out with a pop/rock gig, and then moving to danceable electronic bleeps. Yes, this is going to be a good night.
posted on December 11, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
I frequent quite a few forums, related to different subjects. n5MD is a very cool independent label where good music comes out, and they also have a forum. Today, a wonderful topic was posted on that forum. It gives an interesting alternate view on schizophrenia.
Read it, and think about it a bit more.
posted on December 5, 2004 - 0 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
A few months ago, through various forums and mailinglists, I was alerted of the presence of a site called JetGroove.com that was selling mp3 downloads of independant artists and labels, without the permission to actually do so. The site currently only has a temporary page telling visitors it's "down for maintainance".
In the meanwhile, a forum that I am responsible for got spammed with a promotional message for a site resembling the old JetGroove so much that it couldn't be a coincidence. It is the exact same site design, and a very very similar catalog of independant music. They only rebranded the site!
So here is my warning. Please, please do NOT buy music from www.audio1.org. Buy the music directly from the labels and artists! They need the money much harder and actually deserve the money you're spending.
posted on December 3, 2004 - 2 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Sometimes I really have to laugh about spammers. Some spammers are true amateurs that don't even know their own software. Every once in a while, an e-mail comes in such as the one today:
Subject: %RND_SUBJECT
Yeah! Very random subject man!
Further down, there is another variable that the spammer entered incorrectly:
%ENCODED_RECIPIENT_LIST
Oh how I can laugh at such spammers. They're too dumb to spam.
posted on December 2, 2004 - 6 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
'Blog' is now word of the year. For some reason, a lot of people didn't know what the word 'blog' meant this year. Isn't that strange? I mean, everyone and their grandma have at least one weblog, and yet nobody knows what it means.
Personally, I hate the term 'blog'. I'd rather speak of a 'weblog'. 'Blog' sounds like a scary disease.
posted on December 2, 2004 - 5 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
I really really need to dive into Python. There are things for the web that are very interesting. For instance, Zope, and the Plone application that runs on Zope. Very interesting all that. Of course, PHP is just as interesting and though I've mastered big parts of PHP already there is enough that I could still learn about it. So it's a dilemma: Fully master PHP first, or broaden the horizon by diving into Python, Zope and Plone.
Installing a Zope server with Plone on it is slightly harder than installing Apache with PHP though.
Time to make some considerations.
posted on December 1, 2004 - 1 comment(s) - tags: left on the web
Anyway, I just got pointed to 
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