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Songs About Cars, Space and The Ramones

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 18th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

EP #2 (of a 4 record series)from Drivin N Cryin is out. This is the punk EP. And what an EP it is. Song 1 (Hot Wheels) is a classic Drivin N Cryin rocker. Songs 2-5 sounds like they were candidates for the Scarred But Smarter album. They are rough around the edges punk tunes. […]



Weekly Wrap Up #2

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 16th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Stuff I shared on the Internet this week – saved here so I can find it later. Insanely nice college dorms – Not sure how I should feel about both my undergrad and grad school being on the list. Photos from the Appaloosa Club Trail Ride – It was a perfect day to be outside. […]



The Social Media Blues

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 16th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Is anybody else getting burnt out on feeling like you need to keep up with everything passing you by on Facebook, Twitter, etc? While reading what I wrote here previously about social media, I came upon this quote from July 27, 2007. I’m not sure it’s a good thing, but I can see Facebook becoming […]



The Cassette Tape / Album Penalty

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 13th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Back in the old days, there was actually effort involved in selecting an album or tape to listen to. We couldn’t carry our entire music collection around on a device the size of a Tic-Tac box, but thinner. We couldn’t create a playlist to automatically skip the crap songs. Skipping a song on the album […]



The Obligatory 9-11 Post

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If you are waiting for my deep and overwrought 9-11 post you will be waiting for a long time. There is a difference between remembering and obsessing. I remember, but I’m not obsessing over it. A 9-11 memorial that requires passing through a metal detector to enter, and a gift shop to exit, completely misses […]



Weekly wrap-up

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 9th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

During the week, I post a few things to Facebook and G+ – stuff that quickly gets lost in the stream and that I’ll never find again when I think about it in 6 months. So I’m going to start archiving it here. Is Kip Litton a Marathon Fraud? – A fascinating story in which […]



Why Does Amazon.com Hate Open Source?

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 8th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Without Open Source software, Amazon.com would not exist. Their infrastructure would kill a Windows server infrastructure. They never could have afforded the licenses they needed to scale their infrastructure in the Windows world back in the early days of 96 and 97. So why does Amazon treat Linux users like 2nd class citizens? I just […]



Fins to the Left

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 2nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

It’s kind of embarrassing to admit that last night was my first Jimmy Buffett show. Real life events have conspired for about the last decade to keep me busy on the weekends when he was in town. It was worth the wait. All the stories you’ve heard over the years about his live shows are […]



Embarrassing Blog Posts

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Aug 30th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This will probably end up being a recurring series. One of the dangers of the “Related Posts” feature is that is occasionally dredges up posts I’d rather not remember. Take this as an example. Yikes! Possibly Related Posts:This blog used to be entertainingGhosts of October PastWeird Blog PostsHomeschoolzine.comWhy we homeschool posts



Who Gets Your iTunes Account When You Die?

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Aug 30th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The answer is nobody. If you have 10,000 albums, CD’s or physical books, they pass on to your heirs through your estate. If you have 10,000 tunes in iTunes or 10,000 books on a Kindle, your heirs get nothing. You don’t own those files, you license them, and the license is non-transferable. According to Amazon’s […]