Archive for February, 2006

On Indies

Late to the party on this one, but it is interesting for a former-record label owner to read about the controversy re: co-op advertising/indie labels/best buy vs. Mom’nPop shops here: saki store blog

I haven’t fully processed the passing of Caulfield Records, nor some of the loose ends involved. I might write about it here, but somehow I haven’t gotten to the point of truly pouring my heart out into web-log format.

maybe someday. maybe never.

402, baby!

Area Code, Sweet Area Code I kept 402 when I moved because friends and family can call a local number, but I’d be lying if it wasn’t partly because Nebraska is the best. Shh… it’s a secret.

(Via fimoculous .)

del.icio.us daily blog posting considered harmful

I’ve given up on the automated
del.icio.us daily blog posting
. In theory, pretty cool, but in practice not so good for me. Daily posts of links look… well… ugly.

I use del.icio.us quite a lot, but those daily posts are going to outweigh regular posts - always. why do you care? Well, maybe you would be interested in the javascript linkrolls or perhaps the json implementation. Good stuff.

damn straight.

SIX THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT: NEBRASKA.: “Nebraska, it’s not in the middle of nowhere. It’s in the middle of everything.” (via good problem)

Lousy T-Shirt

Fugazi Rhythm Section To Neglect Children Petition

Ha!

The Art of Alex Gross

If the ol’ laptop power meter was sayin’ more than the 6% it’s tellin’ me it has righ now, I’d be surfin’ Alex Gross’s fine website of illustrations.

It’s also time for bed.

Hey, WordPress!

Just a thank you shout to the wordpress community of developers, plug-in hackers and theme developers for making personal web publishing, err.. web-loggering interesting again. I’ve been playing around with blog software for a long time - Blogger (the non-hosted era), greymatter, and more recently Movable Type which powered this site (in fits and starts, of course) for a few years.

And somewhere along the line… MT v3, I believe, I got bored. I got bored because I am more of a tinker-er than a ‘blogger’, and MT 3 threw in a ton of template cruft, and sad default templates that it didn’t seem fun to re-engineer the templates to a simple state. And then there is perl. Guh. So WordPress, thanks for making playing with the web during off-hours fun again.

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My name is Bernie McGinn, and you are reading my web-based junkdrawer. I live in San Francisco, California. I work for CNET Networks as Product Manager for CNET News.com and CNET Blogs.

Last century, I played in some bands and ran a record label.

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