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Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday’s shows, and I’ll admit, he’s given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I’m sure Greg will be jealous. I can’t find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen stuff, but here’s a too-short video of him in Hotlanta when Gregory and I saw him:

And here’s one from last year, it seems.

I wanted to find a video of him just showing off like TMBG had him do at the concerts. It was shiver-inducing. The music playing on his site is quite good, though.

March 9th 2010
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Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...
March 9th 2010
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I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: On Life and Love

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They Might Be Giants. Maybe.

I got to see them last weekend in Hotlanta, GA. Pretty good show, although it had a more "indie" feel than I was expecting. I guess Greg's idolization of them leads me to think of them as a fairly major/big-label group, which they aren't. They put on a good ...
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Techiness

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WordPress PHP injection?

I just found a creepy case of injection in my index.php file. I noticed this morning that my homepage was throwing a "headers already sent" message pointing to index.php, line 10 when it wasn't cached by Supercache. A reload of the page cleaned it up. But my ...
March 1st 2010
Tags: On Life and Love

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Dreamworlds

A snippet of what seems to be a really good video on the "dreamworld" of modern music videos: Related posts:Is Soulja Boy Ze Frank inspired? Scariest thing ever. Quasi-daily linkage