Recently, Matthew Good has been experimenting with some possible redesigns for his blog. In addition to a more artistic air, Mr. Good is attempting to bring more focus in the design to his musical endeavors. This includes a more prominent media player, recent del.icio.us links, and a notification area in the header: Several months ago, Matt [...]

I have been in the process of sanitizing my (ever-growing) music collection. So far I have managed to sanitize 2762 songs in mp3, Vorbis, and FLAC formats, constituting roughly 8 days, 8 hours, and 50 minutes of music. For the past week in particular, I have been working on sanitizing the Nine Inch Nails discography, [...]

I’ve had a lot of fun recently listening to Jonathan Coulton, a computer programmer turned musical artist and creative freedom activist. All of his music is licensed under the Creative Commons, meaning it is free to download and free to share. Of course, on his website, he prefers to offer people the option of purchasing [...]

As I am sure many of you are aware, Mr. Reznor recently released the NIN album Ghosts I–IV. This album is released under the Creative Commons, and as such, may be legally distributed. You may pick up the entire collection in lossless (FLAC) format here. I encourage you to purchase the album. The same download I [...]

It is Sunday night here in Toronto, and I’m trying my hardest to avoid schoolwork. I’ve a thesis meeting tomorrow morning and a midterm (in Aeroelasticity) on Tuesday. Since theses are due (I believe) on April 11th, this leaves me about a month to work on it. In that time I need to Pick a [...]

I like to say I can play guitar. I got my first electric guitar when I was 12 or 13, a Peavey Predator. I still have it. When I was about 16 I started taking lessons from John Ellis. John was really into Classic Rock, and thus, by extension, so was I. I learned a [...]

Is Dexter ill today? Mr. Kirk, Dexter’s in school I’m afraid he’s not, Miss Fishpaw Dexter’s truancy problem is way out of hand The Baltimore County school board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system Oh Mr Kirk, I’m as upset as you to learn of Dexter’s truancy But surely, expulsion is not the answer! I’m afraid expulsion is [...]

I’m not sure whether it is because of my recent insomnia, my continually useless and annoying classes, or my incessant playing of Guitar Hero, but I’ve been on a bit of a metal kick recently. In the past week, I have acquired discographies for and been listening to several thrash/speed/hXc/epic/[…] metal bands, such as DragonForce, [...]

There’s an article over at TorrentFreak, and here’s the article text: The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around [...]

I finally got around to purchasing Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows (for the curious, I chose to pay 5£ for it). I’ve been listening to it fairly consistently over the past week, and I’m thinking that this is quite possibly my favourite Radiohead album to date. The first song that really struck out at me [...]