New Music!

On 11/29/2006, In Cool, Music, By Will

Back in August I was in Louisville and got to record some tunes in an air­plane hangar with Jeremy. It was too much fun. Check out the free tunes to hear them. Jeremy pro­vides the gui­tar and bass, while I do the drums and other bang­ing of things. Lis­ten closely on one of the tracks for the jet plane tak­ing off, which clev­erly dis­guises an error in the song we made.

On another note, Jeter com­pletely rocked my world this week by send­ing me the pre­vi­ously men­tioned 7″ record­ing of Bas­tro doing My Dad Is Dead’s Noth­ing Spe­cial, a song which is very impor­tant to me because of its awe­some drum­ming. Not to men­tion the fact that it’s just an awe­some song, and I have been dying to hear it since 1992. I couldn’t believe it when it showed up in my mail, and my wife and kids looked at me funny when I shouted with glee and jumped onto the cof­fee table. Thank you, Mr. Jeter. I owe you one. Or 100.

Now, I must go buy a turntable. This 7″ has pushed me into decid­ing to delve in and get the Ion iTTUSB, which will allow me to start con­vert­ing my 400+ vinyl albums to dig­i­tal for­mat. This will take a while to do, but there is so much vinyl I have that never came out on CD that it will be worth it.

Lastly, I’ve decided to start a new band. I’m going to put an ad out soon seek­ing one gui­tarist and one bass player to form the power trio from hell. If it doesn’t leave my ears ring­ing and my knuck­les bloody, then I will have to try again. So, who wants to play?

 
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Fingernails and Toenails

On 11/20/2006, In Cool, youtube, By Will

For all you sick weirdos out there, here is the video of my toe­nail and fin­ger­nail lick­ing cer­e­mony. This was sub­mit­ted by pop­u­lar demand. One per­son asked me to do this.

 
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Odds; Ends

On 11/20/2006, In Cool, Free Stuff, Internet, Links, Software, Tech, By Will

From The “That’s So Dis­gust­ing” Depart­ment
Found a rather hilar­i­ous writeup about my Fin­ger­nail and Toe­nail Col­lec­tion today over at I Am Such a Child. The pics aren’t work­ing on that page, but you should be able to fol­low along.

I was con­tacted by MyHeavy.com about doing a video of myself per­form­ing my toe­nail lick­ing rit­ual and sub­mit­ting it to their site. June had orig­i­nally men­tioned that idea a cou­ple of months ago, and I’ve just been wait­ing until the moment feels right. Stay tuned.

From The Online Web Tools Depart­ment
Check out this huge list of online gen­er­a­tors for gen­er­at­ing things such as 3-column CSS lay­out and acces­si­ble forms.

From The Toot­ing My Own Horn Depart­ment
Some­one has erected a Myspace page for Crain. Nice job of col­lect­ing stuff.

From The Cru­cial Apps Depart­ment
If you use mul­ti­ple mon­i­tors on your PC, then you must get Multi Mon­i­tor Taskbar, a free­bie tool that puts a taskbar at the bot­tom of your sec­ond mon­i­tor, sav­ing you mouse mileage and win­dow con­fu­sion. It also has a nifty clip­board mem­ory tool built in.

 
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Happy Birthday, Dax

On 11/15/2006, In Family, By Will

Dax is One today. Can’t believe it. So far he has acquired the fol­low­ing nicknames:

  • Daxy
  • Daxy-uh
  • Daxles
  • Dax­imus
  • Dax­i­na­tor
  • Diesel

Dax is One

 
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ReviewMe.com

On 11/13/2006, In Internet, Tech, By Will

It is with mixed feel­ings that I announce this blog post is a paid review of ReviewMe.com.

On the one hand, I enjoy writ­ing reviews, par­tic­u­larly of new Inter­net ser­vices, and I really like the idea of being paid to hang out on the Inter­net all day. Heck — that’s why I started some of the other sites I have started, such as TheBestofYoutube.com. Not that I’m mak­ing much more than enough to buy a Diet Coke per day off these ven­tures (yet).

On the other hand, it’s pretty much a sell­out when you come here to see me writ­ing for dol­lars. But can you blame me? If I even do any more of these, I promise to try and keep paid posts infor­ma­tive and objec­tive. OK?

I saw a review of ReviewMe and thought I’d take it for a spin. It’s basi­cally a site that is recruit­ing blog­gers from every­where to reg­is­ter and write reviews. If you have a prod­uct or ser­vice to sell, you can use ReviewMe to start gen­er­at­ing an instant buzz about what it is you are try­ing to push. It’s really a pretty inge­nious idea, really, brought to life through a snazzy Web2.0-style site that is easy to use and fig­ure out.

My first impres­sion of the ser­vice though, is that unless you are already a well-established blog writer online, your chances of mak­ing much money from ReviewMe are pretty slim. I sub­mit­ted this blog and my Dump­wor­thy blog but the lat­ter got rejected by ReviewMe for not being pop­u­lar enough. The irony is that Dump­wor­thy is a review site. Go figure.

They seem to judge wor­thy blogs on the amount of linkbacks, traf­fic, and exist­ing posts. Not a bad idea to weed out the cruft. Still, this site only received one out of 5 stars, so I am won­der­ing if I will ever get con­tacted about writ­ing any reviews. Were this blog more tar­geted to tech­nol­ogy or some­thing, I might get a higher score.

I think the ReviewMe ser­vice will prob­a­bly become wildly pop­u­lar though, as it is sim­ple and effec­tive, and it looked like you could make at least $40 per review. This gets the gears turn­ing in my head for start­ing a new site that will be more focused, and might attract more poten­tial reviews.

Per­haps this war­rants a fol­low up review of ReviewMe in a few months; once I see if it works out at all.

 
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Blue Tsunami

On 11/8/2006, In Family, Politics, Tech, Web Dev, Work, By Will

First off, I’m glad to see that for­mer NFL quar­ter­back Heath Shuler is now my con­gress­man. I think he should be much more respon­sive than the Week­end At Bernie’s-ish Charles Tay­lor. Plus, Heath can throw a football.

Sec­ondly, a major con­grat­u­la­tions to my brother, who will now be known as Judge Chatham. His pal Mike Snipes won as well. I am now 2 for 2 in cre­at­ing web­sites for elected offi­cials who win their races. Next?

Thirdly, if you are hav­ing prob­lems installing Inter­net Explorer 7 (or any Win­dows updates) because of the Win­dows Gen­uine Advan­tage mal­ware that Microsoft has forced upon us, then why not Bypass and Crack Inter­net Explorer 7 Gen­uine Win­dows Val­i­da­tion in style?

Lastly, I updated my port­fo­lio just now. There are a few more sites that will be added in the near future.

 
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