It’s been awhile since I wrote a post about a cool site I found (either by search engine or virally), but this one deserves an honorable mention. (more…)

If you’re like me, and enjoy listening to the music videos on Youtube, you may get tired of having to manually click the replay button every time the song ends. (more…)

….for a song’s play count, that is. (more…)

While sitting through three hours of football last Sunday, a thought occurred to me throughout the evening. Why does this feel like just another normal football game? (more…)

Well I finally got my Intestinal Reattachment Surgery last Wednesday, whose condition I mentioned earlier in the year. (more…)

…and things will probably remain that way for a good amount of time longer.

Between recovering from surgery, completing school work, continuing my project, and other general life situations, I haven’t had much time to focus on writing quality posts and creating great concepts for you to follow.

I’ve spoken with my Doctor and have a scheduled reattachment surgery (from my ileostomy) on December 17th (two days after my birthday). Also it’ll still take five to seven days to recover in the hospital (and about a month after that to recover from this next surgery).

So after that time period, the activity on the website should pick up by then.

So I received a letter from a company called “Website Listing Services” in the mail a couple of weeks ago, requesting that I make a payment of $65 for “special search engine listings”. So I ignored it and threw it in the trash.

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So many SEO’s out there like to believe they can create new HTML values, such as dofollow. Here’s a newsflash for those of you who refer to normal links as dofollow: Dofollow Doesn’t Exist!

Don’t follow that! dofollow this instead.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dofollow

Just because one Search Engine implements a new value for the relationship attribute of anchor elements doesn’t mean you have to refer to the norm as something else based of the new value. (more…)

So there I was, playing in the middle of KOTOR 2 on my Xbox 360, and everything’s going fine. Then I turn the machine off for a few minutes to take a break and go to the bathroom. I return to continue my game and then proceed to turn on the system, and guess what happens? (more…)

Just picked up a copy of my favorite band’s album and they’ve seemingly returned to their thrash roots, which is great, especially for fans of their earlier work such as myself. (And there’s a big plus for the return of solos, something lacking from Metallica’s previous release over five years ago, St. Anger.)

If you’re hoping for another Load/Reload , you’re going to be in for a world of disappointment. This is thrash metal all the way around, which is a pretty rare occurrence for an album released in 2008.

Death Magnetic is obviously not Metallica’s next Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, but why compare it to their previous works? (If anything, the album’s production reminded me of Kill’em All’s sound, riffs, etc.). No one should look at Death Magnetic (or any other Metal album) as “The next MoP”, but rather view the album as “The first DM”.

I’d say my favorite track ends in a tie between two of them. The first is The Unforgiven III, even if it’s the least thrashy song off the album. The opening piano intro is simply amazing! Then there’s the instrumental, Suicide and Redemption, which is another great complex headbanger which some may compare to the likes of Ktulu or Orion, but again, what’s the point behind comparing Art? Not taking anything away from the rest of the songs, but those were the two that I took an immediate liking to.

While the overall production style may disappoint a few, one thing I’ve specifically noticed is that it’s quality is a huge step up from the samples I’ve heard from Youtube Videos and elsewhere.

It’s really up to the fans whether they like the new sound or not (Duh!). If they believe DM sounds like trash, think the production is crappy, or just plain refuse to listen because of some lawsuit Lars filed eight years ago, then that’s their loss.

Just listen to the album and judge it for yourself, you don’t need some smug “reviewer” telling you whether it sucks or not.

(Update = 9/14/2008) After listening to the album for a bit longer, I feel I have a responsibility to highlight a few even more songs that stood out to me.

Firstly, I really enjoyed listening to the opening track, with the sweet acoustic opener that builds up into an all-out speedfest, as with their opening songs of the past. Very enjoyable.

And then there’s “The Day That Never Comes”. This may be by new favorite, I can’t decide. With it’s melodic beginning, it builds up to the latter half of the song, which should probably give an adrenaline rush. With the guitars get kicked into overdrive, Kirk solos galore, and Lars drumming on top of it. The song structure really reminded me of …And Justice For All’s “One” (arguably my favorite Metallica song ever).

Not that my opinion on the album should make a difference when you form your judgments though….