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My Decade’s Better Than Your Decade…

September 30, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Movies, Music, TV, Technology by faltarego | 1 comment

Being current is not always all it's cracked up to be. It's hard work being current. You always have to stay on top of things, seek out the newest, latest, and greatest, and then grab hold of it and make it your own before someone else does.

Yes, I'm talking about blogging. And this particular blog, the one you're reading right now, this little chunk of the web claimed by yours truly, is anything but current. As a matter of fact, it's completely retro.

Well, no, that's not entirely true. I'm running the latest version of WordPress on a site hosted by HostPapa, who are running the lastest and greatest versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL. But as for the rest of it, well, retro all the way, baby.

The images on my pages are all retro technology. I'm running Windows XP Home edition on my very old HP Pavilion 522c. And I'm not exactly fresh and young myself (though I can be quite immature sometimes). And I really like talking and writing about stuff that happened, well, a loooong time ago. Read the rest of this entry »

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How the Beatles Stole Christmas

September 29, 2009 in Music by faltarego | 4 comments

So… Is there anyone out there who doesn't know someone who wants either the Beatles version of Rock Band or the Beatles remastered box set for Christmas this year? I know I've got my eye (and ear) on the stereo box set (if there are any still to be had) and if I had a PS3 or XBox360, I would definitely want the game as well. Alas, I have but a modest PS2, so no Beatles Rock Band for me.

But that's okay, because I don't play video games that much anyway.

But I digress.

I'm fairly tickled by the fact that both The Beatles: Rock Band and The Beatles Remastered were released on September 9th, 2009 (or 09/09/09). It would have been even cooler if the actual time of the release had been 09:09:09 on that date as well, but given that the world has at least twenty-four time zones (some sources claim as many as thirty-one), trying to release a game and a set of CDs at a specific time would have been problematic at best. Read the rest of this entry »

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Paul McCartney: The Great Collaborator

September 1, 2009 in Blogging, Music by faltarego | No comments

Tuneful Tuesday is back!

After an obscure but heartfelt beginning in my early post Chess: The Musical Memory, the tunes sort of disappeared there for a couple weeks, what with my foray into my local art gallery the following week and the Week of the Guest Posts changing the order of things the week after that. I sorta, kinda, almost got back to it last week, with my discussion of United Breaks Guitars, but that turned into more of a rant about business on the internet. (Gah! Makes my head spin!)

Today, though, we're back with a vengeance. Music is in the air, and we're going to take a little trip down memory lane.

I'd been planning to do some posts about music I've enjoyed in the past anyway, but this evening a little cosmic event occurred that cemented my plans and gave me a musical kick-in-the-arse. Read the rest of this entry »

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