Six months, daily posts: Half way there.

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Eighteen months ago, when I kicked off this site, I had a goal of trying to post daily. I made it a few weeks, but ultimately didn’t make it that far, although I did manage to update the site at a pace that yielded 100 posts for the first year. At the one-year anniversary, I decided to try again. Continue reading

Programming note: Fundraising season

This is traditionally a busy time of year for me; this year, through calendar shifts, two fundraisers that I support happened back to back weekends.  This post is going up retroactively to mark time, as this was the first break in the posting schedule in months and I want a fighting chance of rebounding, but this weekend was the Imperial Sovereign Court of All Connecticut‘s Coronation, and the following weekend is the New Haven Pride Center‘s Dorothy Awards.

I’ll do my best to keep posting up through the duration, but a gap may be inevitable until after March 1.

200 posts in, and still posting daily… barely

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Programming note for the blog: This is post number 200!  It’s been a bit tough going in recent weeks; the day’s post has gone up awfully close to the end of the day a few times in recent weeks, due to my not being able to get posts prepared in advance, but I’m hanging in there with daily posts, something maintained now since November 28 (with a couple of days where a second post snuck in there!).

For those who have continued to follow along, thanks!  I’ve got some more good stuff coming up (assuming I can write it all out), so stay tuned.  Recently I tripped across a couple of albums by artists who I’ve loved for years, but didn’t know they had got their new albums out, so I guess it’ll be a review of quasi-new material at that point, but it’s worth covering nonetheless.

Music updates: Hank & Cupcakes, Strange Talk, Lily Allen, Kylie Minogue

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The problem with once daily posting is, despite how hard it is to keep the pace, when things are actually going on, other news can fall behind or updates left out.  So with a hat-tip to my friend Nick over at The Littlest Winslow, let’s focus on music on a Monday, shall we, with some updates to artists I’ve featured here in recent weeks: Continue reading

The first year in review

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Thanksgiving weekend a year ago, I was able to pull the trigger and get this blog finished and moving. Given my personal site had been neglected for years, it was an accomplishment, and the fact that I’ve actually used it, and updated it, for a year, is to me another one (I have a tendency to let things fall off before a year has passed). With that in mind, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on a year here and what it’s meant. Continue reading

Mastering a domain… and proving it

old-jjo-webpagesMy site in 2003. Technically, it was my site in 2012 too, before I finally rebuilt it last fall.

I recently encountered an article written by someone who claimed that knowing if someone’s an Internet expert could be vetted by how old the domains they own or have built are.  If someone’s really a master, they would likely have been working online for a very long time, and have at least a couple of domain names to prove it. Continue reading