SchattenMusik

Category : entertainment + internet + music

Adriano has just personally informed me that his ongoing music project SchattenMusic has a new release. This man is not just a skilled artist and programmer, he’s also a very skilled musician. While I can’t place my finger on the exact genre for which most of this music would fall into, I think it’s safe to say that there’s probably a little something in there for everyone. A quitck description would be of the following: Like a cross between atmospheric jazz mixed into a large noisy lounge scene, while another bit is more of a layered hypnotic sound-scape. All that and the kind of background music you would hear durring one of those high-tension, edge-of-your-seat dramatic moments of a fast paced murder or action film. While I don’t know if any of that makes any sense to you, but you might just be better off listening to it for yourself and then decide.

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Resistance Is Futile.

Category : annoying + internet

Recently, I became side-tracked while searching through some old files and archives. The reason for this is that I stumbled upon a golden nugget which within most backups, is finding that almighty cache of really old bookmarks. It’s candy for those of us with a sweet tooth for information hinted with nostalgia, but it often comes with a dangerous consequence. No, it’s nothing terrible, but if what you were looking for originally wasn’t the cache of bookmarks, then consider your original search long forgotten and the hours you spend browsing through them will be long lost. What did suprise me is the ammount of bookmarks I managed to amass over the course of a year or two under an aging 56k modem at the time.

So, now I’ve totally forgotten what I was originally looking for, because over the past few hours I’ve been clicking away to see if any of these bookmarked sites are still around and worth adding to the ranks of my current bookmarks. Also I’m a bit curious to see what some of the sites have become, and what the authors might be doing today. Sadly, a huge number of these sites have fallen into “the wrong hands”. In reality though, I’m not totally suprised, knowing perfectly well it was bound to happen eventually. And this brings up just a few of the things I hate about the internet and how some “companies” operate, a.k.a. “the wrong hands”.

These things are: Domain vultures, fake search sites, and worse than both alone: a combination of the two only to form a two-piece Voltron megabot! Except it’s only one of the pieces from each set, so when combined looks like both a lion, and a car. Just sit back and imagine for a moment how stupid that would look… just a torso and an arm or something, yeah, that could look pretty stupid. OK, so if you don’t know or remember what Voltron is, I’m sorry, but you missed out on some early 80’s toy and cartoony awesomeness. Anyway, for those of you totally unfamiliar with the practice of the domain vultures, I’ll sum it up like this: The very moment your domain name expires, some idiot “company” already has their finger on the trigger ready to snipe it out of your hands and register it as their own before you know that domain is even gone. This injury is often compounded by the insult of then having that domain indexed under the guise of some legitimate and “newer” or “better” search engine or other product. Which in most cases is not so great at all, not to mention, nobody has probably even heard of it.

It’s kind of like the borg invading the internet, once a domain is assimilated, any attempt at getting that now expired domain out of this vastly retarded collective is seemingly futile. That domain is now a zombie slave to some superiorly retarded affiliate spewing site within their vast circle jerking collective. All of which want to procreate by spawning pop-up after pop-up and have you install their malware ridden toolbars. If that isn’t the geekiest yet scarriest of nerdy nightmares, I don’t know what is. But what I do know, is that I find these “companies” and their sites largely deceptive, problematic and potentially spammy.

Just like spammers, practices like this make me wish I had the keys to a network registrar which held the owner and DNS info for people who do this kind of crap. I would simply unregister then blackhole the domains so they couldn’t propogate any further then they already have. But that’s dreaming, the best thing I could hope for is weeding these sites from major search engines so when you or I do go searching for something relevant, we don’t have to innocently click into one of these domains which display anything but relevancy.

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No, sorry, I have nothing to do with the band.

Category : entertainment + general

This isn’t a fansite, I’m not the lead singer or even a member, I’ve nothing to do with them at all! But, if you are looking for the band, they’re quite alright and you can find them here. After being tipped off over a year ago about them from a fan linking here and thinking this was the bands site, I learned who they were. Not too bad, if “Rebel-Folk-Hip-Hop&” is your thing, but from the few select tracks I’ve listened through, they’re definatly something “alternative”, and I don’t mean that in a bad way.

Unfortunatly for them though, SecondAgenda.com has been around much much longer (since like 97/98 if memory serves me right) and hosted by my wonderful adventures in webhosts (Greg rocks!) TDH.com. At the time of this writing, linking to here might be a little messed up due to BIND being a pain in the ass and not accepting this domain since a hardware upgrade. So, if you’re attempting to access this domain without the WWW subdomain, you’ll wind up at the TDH main page, and with it, well, that’s pretty obvious. Since I have zero experience with BIND, I’ll leave it to Greg, either he’ll figure it out eventually or things will just remain this messed up until the next time the server gets a hardware upgrade. I’ll remain optimistic until then.

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