Sorry that I’ve been away from the blog for so long. I hope to fix the comment spam problem this weekend, so I’ll be able to allow commenting again. Posting without allowing feedback isn’t much fun, afterall. I’ll chime back in when that’s fixed.

I was a Usenet junkie back in the day. Usenet predated the whole web experience, and developing a decent web-based interface for it has been challenging. DejaNews (later, Deja.com) was a fairly good effort, but I was happy when it got bought out by Google. Still Google Groups hasn’t had much in the way of [...]

I’ve never been a fan of Realplayer, though I often end up installing it when I need to play some content that’s only available in that dreaded format. Searching for an alternative, I found this excellent blog post which describes, better than I could, just why I loathe that app. [BTW, Comments are locked (again). [...]

I finished up a new James, Not Jim track called “Ocean.” You can play/download/rate it at myspace.com. I hope you enjoy it.

Paul Boatright, frontman/singer/guitarist for Punkinhead–a great funk band I used to play bass for–has set up a nice site for his new and old musical projects at paulboatright.com. He’s got a new tune there you can stream and promises lots of stuff in the coming months. I’m excited about it and hope you will be, [...]