Internet Explorer users Anonymous I think it should be called. A place to sit and chat about a worrying condition that is not getting over the damn IE thing. Mihai and I had a chat via gmail and I’m not reluctant to say I called anyone who still uses IE a dumbass. He said then he must be one, or what didja say dude… that you don’t think you’re one.
IE 7 is the latest Windows version right? Well take a look right here and see what an allmighty bitchslap Microsoft’s giving y’all.
Now what has this to do with music eh? Well. This. See, there are other options out there besides Firefox or Opera and one that every music afficionado should know about is Songbird. Yep, sounds good don’t it? songbirdnest link

…from the seaside. It was 3 (or four) days of fun, laughing and sitting without doing much. Exepct for the nights….oh…the nights !

Well, I guess all of you know what is usually happening there, it was not much of an exception now just that I felt much better than the last time, at Stufstock last year.

The goods: the way to the seaside, the Saturday - all day long, the place we’ve been stayin’, the music and, most important, the people there.

The bads: tequilla, the cold nights and … again, it was too short.

Speaking about the music, this track has been played over and over again, in all clubs… So here you are, for the ones who were there and liked it and for the ones who were not there – to get a feeling: Partice – Soul’s Storm.

P.S. Some pictures to come soon…

An interesting article about Music Blogs owners can be found here.

Excerpt: “It’s no secret that if you run a music blog of any note, promotion companies will offer to supply you with the latest news, free CDs, tickets to shows, MP3 streams, contests and other wares. Who doesn’t like free stuff? If you happen to already like the band, even better. You just want to help your favorite bands get heard. Everyone wins. So what’s the problem?”

Well, until now nobody offered me anything for publishind reviews on the musicblog.ro (maybe it is too low-profile till now). Still, I greatly appreciate the fact that the guys from Tapinarii allowed me to put their song for download. But I did it because I like their music, not because they asked me too (I wrote the post before asking them…)

What is your opinion on the issues described by the above-mentioned article? Should bloggers be objective or subjective? Should they accept receiving materials to publish or to review ?

In the last days I noticed a lot of spam comments on posts around musicblog.ro. Maybe you didn’t notice them, as they are usually comments to old posts, but I saw them in the admin tool.

Now, Tina suggested I should install a image verification system for all comments in order to prevent spam but, as I hate this method because it fights spam by adding an extra field / effort for the regular users, I decided not to do this yet.

Meanwhile, I installed a new “intelligent” plugin that should detect spam based on certain patterns (it was quite easy to see a pattern in all the spam comments that appeared until now), so I hope this works and I won’t have to add a plugin which will harden your posting of comments.

From my point of view, Music Blog is determined to remain an open communication tool that all of you can use and freely express your wildest opinions :)

Please feel free to suggest other spam-fighting methods as well.

After moving to the new place, I have some issues with the old audio solutions….basically, I do not want to use the laptop anymore for storing and playing music, but I want a more professional solution. And also the speakers should go and be replaced by some more professional ones.

As the new apartment offers a lot of open space, I want to see as less cables as possible, so I am thinking of a wireless solution. The ideal thing would be for a small and compact “device” that is able to store 30-40 Gb of music and is able to send the sound wireless to speakers mounted on the walls. Of course, it has to have a remote control :)

As I have limited time to wander through the shops, the Internet is the best option for me now. After dozens of searches over the web, I did not manage to find too much, so I decided to ask some “professionals”. As Bose was well recommended, I decided to send an e-mail and ask. I told them what I want, I even mentioned a couple of products I found on their website and I asked for the price.

All good until now, I (think I) did my part. But would you think they answered? No. Three days have passed and no reply from them. I was quite determined to buy, I send them all the details, all they had to do was to reply and give a configuration.

Now, this is what I don’t understand in Romania. Some people really don’t want to sell. Same happened when I tried to buy a TV from Metro, the guys were nowhere to be found and when I found them they treated me with so little consideration and actually said that both products I wanted were not properly functioning. Why do you display them then ?? Of course, they did not recommend anything else, they just went away. So I went to Altex, where a nice guy managed to convince me to buy a TV twice as expensive as what I was looking for initially. Just by showing me everything, being very nice and detail answering all my questions.

Think I’ll go to Altex again or, for a much more professional solution, I’ll try B&O…. Still, the question remains. Why do some people do not want to sell when the buyer comes?

Do you remember that TV series with the guy who received, every day, tommorow’s newspaper and was trying to save the bad things from hapenning ?

Well, this is what I felt like this morning when I say the news not only for tommorow, but until Thursday !

Here you are an excerpt. Let’s make the world better !

Since about 3 weeks now, one of my work colleagues has a question he cannot find the answer for….maybe some of you can help.

Basically, the question is: “Where does a song go when nobody’s singing it?“. Or, in Romanian: “Unde se duce melodia atunci cand nu o canta nimeni?”

His comment: Please answer in a serious manner.
My comment: :)))))

Acest post va fi in romana, pentru ca se pare ca asa e traditia. Been tagged, so, nu e frumos sa refuzi :) Deci, sa incepem….

4 filme: Kill Bill (1 si 2), Beautiful Mind, Natural Born Killers (we’re not killing anybody on our wedding day :D) si … si …. Avocatul Diavolului. Grea alegere, mai erau multe pe lista.

4 seriale: Famila Bundy, Fantozzi (so old, so good), Seinfeld si oh, da, Oz

4 carti: Neitzsche – Zarathustra, Poe – Principiul Poetic, Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus, Papini – Gog.

4 mancaruri: Ciuperci umplute cu ciuperci, Pizza, Supa alpina, Penne carbonara.

4 locuri in care as vrea sa fiu acum: Pe partie la Solden, Pe partie, Goteborg – Suedia, Rossignol – in Poiana (pe partie).

4 locuri in vacanta: 2 Mai, Hungaroring, Suedia (aproape vacanta), uichendu’ ala la Moeciu…(cu P.)

4 pagini web zilnice: Google.com, Wall-street.ro, DealBook-ul de la NY Times, diverse bloguri.

4 joburi: “muncitor pe santier”, HR Manager, Account Manager, Consultant.

4 locuri in care am locuit: Galati, Oltenita, Bucuresti – Titulescu, camin (Tei si Moxa).

4 pe care-i tag-uiesc: Sece, NpunctC, Andrei, Cristi.

si sa mai adaugam una….

4 bauturi: Jack Daniels, Absolut Pepper, Heineken, Remy Martin.

Searching for musicblog, you can easily find a very nice project, started by EMI and Pixelfury, called MusicBlog.co.uk.

Musicblog.co.uk is a platform offering various artists a space to start their own blog in order to communicate with their fans.

Even though the initiative might not sound that innovative, it is worthwhile to mention that David Gilmour has a blog over at davidgilmour.musicblog.co.uk. And the blog is really worthwile visiting, updated regularly, with nice information and a very clear and rich writing style.

Also, The Doves are worthwhile to visit.

Due to recent temperatures in Romania of -15 to -20 degrees, this is how the Black Sea looks like …. frozen ! (click for large view)

Brrrr…

Update: This is how the Danube looks today (25.01) in Galati, when there were -16 degrees.