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Entries from July 2007

The Continued Evolution

July 10th, 2007 · No Comments ·

A quick note about updates to the site. I have been spending most of my blogging time working on how the site operates, rather than uploading new content. The new features include:

Get updates by email - click the orange button (RSS) in the upper right hand corner of the front page. There [...]

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Menomena Rules

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments ·

Yes, Menomena, like the Muppets tune.
The tune that has been permanently lodged in my brain today is by a Portland, Oregon-based group, Menomena. The tune “Weird” appeared on a music blog, and I just sort of half-listened for a moment. Then the tune knocked me out and since then any spare moment I [...]

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Here Now

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments ·

Here’s one from the spring that never got published:
One of my students brought in the Ray Lamontagne CD “Till the Sun Turns Black” recently. We listened to excerpts of Be Here Now, Empty, and Three More Days. Via a music blog, I listened to Be Here Now several times, almost obsessively, and have since purchased [...]

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Just ask

July 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments · ,

Ask and you shall receive. I guess that’s the moral of the story. Yesterday, I said that I wished that the Cutline theme came in a 3-column version that had the content in the center. I said that, sort of apologetically, and in the context that sort of felt “Oh well, short [...]

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On Themes

July 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment ·

Who knew that choosing a theme - the design for a blog - could be so time consuming? I strolled over to Emily Robbins’ Comprehensive list of 980+ themes, and also stumbled around various other related places, and have managed to waste much more time than I dare admit to myself. So what [...]

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