January 28, 2008
New Zealand is For Lovers
So far, New Zealand might be one of my favorite places that I have ever been. I have traveled all over, but our first night here is awesome so far.
January 22, 2008
Train Rides and Music
I love listening to music on long train rides in foreign places. The combined audio/visual makes for great living music videos of sorts. Right now, Old Fools from the Magnetic Fields “Distortion” record is an obsession and fits the visual well. We’re on the train from Sydney to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains [...]
Google Maps, I Love You
The fact that the Blackberry version of Google Maps works so well in Australia is probably reflective of the Aussie team that wrote the thing, but no matter — it works here, but Yahoo Go! does not. I love you Google Maps.
January 17, 2008
Jens Lekman
Just bought tickets to the Jens Lekman show in Cambridge at the Middle East. Should be great. Jonathan Richman tickets go on sale tomorrow for the March show. Hoping on that fast.
January 14, 2008
Australia and New Zealand in 1 Week!
1 week until we leave for Australia and then New Zealand. We’re excited as hell. 14 inches of snow tonight might slow things down in terms of other things, but rest assured: we’ll be ready to roll next Sunday. The 14 hour flight from San Francisco to Sydney is nothing to look [...]
January 3, 2008
ATTN: Employees of Nonesuch Records
1. I got my hands on the forthcoming Magnetic Fields record entitled Distortion.
2. I love it.
3. I’m trying to buy tickets to their Somerville show, but hate being pimped on ebay.
4. I was a pimp in a former life.
5. I’m being punished in this life as a result. If [...]
Filed by Raj at January 3rd, 2008 under Entertainment, Music
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January 2, 2008
Custom Domain Names With Tumblr
I use Dreamhost quite a bit for a variety of domain hosting. I recently tried using it for DNS services for a custom domain name that I was using for a tumblr tumblog.
It didn’t work so well. (the Dreamhost DNS part that is)
The idea itself is simple: You create a CNAME DNS record pointing to [...]
Filed by Raj at January 2nd, 2008 under Technology
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