I’m in a “don’t do anything mood” so I decided to pull up and post my iTunes Top 25 Most Played songs.

Check out the file here: http://chris.comitar.com/blog/downloads/itunes/top25-250307.xml

And feel free to steal my XSL if you want it. It’s all in the code.

chris

I use the UK version. If someone sends me a link formatted for the international version, you should recognize this and forward me to the proper place.

In fact, why do you need multiple versions of links? That in itself is strange.

That is all.

Chris

Hi BBC,

I dunno about you guys, but when I read RSS feeds, I like to see the all of the content. I know you have to preserve page views and hits and that stuff… but it would be really cool it if you started offering full feeds.

kthx,
your friend Chris

Gotta love “The Onion”.

Touring Raffi Refuses To Play ‘Shake My Sillies Out’

I found a great website today, the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project). It is very tough to find high quality classical (or other miscellaneous public domain) sheet music. Fortunately, this site has a great collection (and it is powered by MediaWiki software, so you too can upload and edit!). I also linked to the site in my sidebar, via del.icio.us.

On the subject of classical music, I’m seeking a recording of Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italien” (”Caprice Italien” in the French form). I can’t justify paying $0.99 at this stage (especially when I now have the sheet music sitting in front of me, so I suppose I could record my own version), but I would like to listen to it again so I can decide if I want to arrange this piece or another for the Music Theory class I take.

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I have wrapped up the article for GizBuzz about the FreeNation Foundation. I’m planning to publish it on Tuesday (Google Analytics stats never fail to display Tuesday as our busiest day).

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Tchaikovsky is so awesome. He really is. If you haven’t already, go to ClassicCat.net and download some of his stuff. It blows me away to no end. Also, I would be most remissed if I failed to mention Antonin Dvorak, another phenomenal composer. Yes, I am a romantic era junkie.

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ciao,

chris

I finally sat down and executed codename Rosebud, the redesign of my blog.

Rosebud, as film aficionados know, is the name of the sled that Charles Foster Kane owned as a child in Orson Welles’ classic, Citizen Kane. The term has no relevance to this blog other than Citizen Kane is one of the best movies I have seen, and one of the fist words that came to my mind.

The design has six key points (though only four are operational). They are:

• Zooomr photos - Not operational. A stream of the latest photos from my Zooomr account.
• Twitter updates - As a card carrying member of the church of Twitter, I routinely post updates to this addictive site. I decided it made sense to display these updates here.
• Current song (from Last.fm/Audioscrobbler) - Not operational. Since I moved to OS X, I have also started using Last.fm. I do not use it so much for social purposes, though they’re interesting - rather to display my current track across the web.
• Shared Items from Google Reader - I doubt I’ll keep up on this as much as I would like to, as the application I’m using to read Google Reader doesn’t easily allow me to mark items to my shared feed. I will try though.
• Del.icio.us bookmarks - I bought a license for the wonderful Pukka today, because I realized I had so many links I never remembered to write down. I am a fan of del.icio.us, so I hope this will keep my bookmarks in order.
• Blog - First and foremost this site is a blog. Updates, as always, will be sporadic (at best), short and sweet, but most of all boring.

I hope you enjoy my new site design. It is not quite done yet, but I’m working on it.

Let me know any errors you come across…

Chris

Fine.

I took the stupid test.

grr…

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 75% Superman 60% Green Lantern 55% Robin 52% Supergirl 50% Hulk 50% Wonder Woman 45% The Flash 45% Batman 45% Catwoman 40% Iron Man 25%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.