It’s done! For the most part …
I finally got through all the development to integrate Musicbrainz and Amazon Web Services with Musicwhore.org and the archive.
In fact, I re-launched the archive with a familiar design and with new navigation.
If I don’t post here very much in the next few weeks, it’s because I’m working on a way to bring back the Musicwhore.org artists directory without making it such a backbreaking data entry time hog.
I’ve been exploring ways to integrate Musicbrainz and Amazon Webservices into the administration of the site. Amazon was already a presence on the site, but now I’ve been working on code to make handling the Musicwhore.org database easier.
It seems I’m posting a lot more to my Last.fm journal than I’m posting here.
I guess I’m still falling into the trap of saving news-worthy content and punditry on this site, whereas my Last.fm journal has more personal ruminations of music I’m listening to.
Just so nobody misses out on either, I’m including the RSS feed of the Last.fm journal on the side there.
And against my better judgment, I’m leaving comments enabled on the Last.fm journal. I enabled comments on a very early version of this site — before it acquired the brand Musicwhore.org — and it attracted mindless LFO teenyboppers and clueless Dynamite Hack defenders who thought the band was, I don’t know, good? So I got rid of them.
I think at the most one of my blog-type sites ought to act like a blog-type site, so I’m leaving comments be over at Last.fm. I’m starting to regret it, though.
About a week ago, I requested an upgrade to PHP5 from my web host. I didn’t run the appropriate tests on my code, and as a result, all entries on this site were flagged as "unpublished", even though they were. I have now fixed the code to accomodate the changes in PHP5, so now you should be able to navigate the site as expected.
(Are you all reading through RSS now? Because no one even told me this was screwed up.)
UPDATE: Ha! Now I know why no one could tell me it was broken — the damn contact page got messed up as well! OK. The e-mail form should work now. I guess that means I can’t use registered globals with PHP anymore. Suck.
That was the tagline for the now-defunct Japanese rock band FEED. But I would like to mention the Musicwhore.org RSS feed (http://www.musicwhore.org/index.rdf).
I know I haven’t really been posting much here, and that thing called "real life" is pretty much the culprit for my negligence. So rather than taking time out of your surfing — which is wasted when you visit here and there’s nothing to see — let a service such as Bloglines take care of it for you.
Sign up for an account, then subscribe to the Musicwhore.org RSS feed. When I post an update, Bloglines will grab the content from my feed and inform you of an update.
Yeah, I haven’t been very mindful of this site in the last few weeks. The office has kept me busy, and I’ve been taking classes this semester, so about the only thing I can squeeze in is an occassional post about former members of Number Girl.
I’ve been meaning to review quite a number of albums I’ve been listening to in the last few months. At the risk of stealing my own thunder, maybe I’ll do the Television Without Pity practice of writing a “reviewlet” before replacing it with a full-fledge review. Or I could do what my friend Jette does with her six-minute reviews.
But really, I’m just writing out loud right now.
I am, however, planning to write about:
You’ve made it — welcome!
This is it — the next iteration of Musicwhore.org.
If you’re wondering where all the old content is, head on over to archive.musicwhore.org. There, you’ll find the artist directory, reviews and news items. Even the Amazon @ Musicwhore store still works. You won’t find any audio content — I’ve taken that offline.
At the moment, I’m not aiming to do anything terribly ambitious with this new version of the site. I would, however, like to write about more than just Japanese music, and I’m hoping this more open format will allow it.
So yeah — not much to just yet. Till I start chattering away. Thanks for stopping by.