Tue, 30 Mar 2004

Best of 6 months worth of music
posted by Chip Witt

It still seems odd to me that people tend to remember me best from my days of DJing. I guess that, although I've done many other things, my eclectic tastes and (for the most part) decent recommendations stuck with people over the years. For all of the people that have continued to ask, and those that were afraid to, I give my top three picks (so far) for the first half of this year (or last 6 months). Please take into consideration that this list is taken from that which I enjoy for my personal listening pleasure, and is not listed in any particular order (Chip's Top 25 from 1989 to Present will be forthcoming sometime this summer).

• Alien Ant Farm - truANT
• Maroon5 - Songs About Jane
• Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

My personal favorites, "Glow" by Alien Ant Farm, "This Love" by Maroon5, and "Fell In Love with a Boy" by Joss Stone (she sung this on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), although every song on these three albums is well worth the listen.

Apologies to anyone with philosophical aversions to Amazon.com listings. It's quick, easy, and usually cheaper than going to a retail store.

Cheers,

CW

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Weblog functions again!
posted by Chip Witt

When we migrated the wittzend.com domain to a new server, we were able to get everything working again...except the Addendat weblog application. Old posts still displayed from the static HTML, but the interface by which new posts were added ceased to function. Maddening, but not a priority.

I was finally afforded the time to see the problem as an opportunity. I had been personally searching for a robust, reliable, preferrably themeable weblog interface that could be shared by the entire Witt'z End Team. There are many options out there, but most are based on PHP, or require a backend database...not that there's anything wrong with that. I just wanted something a little more simple on the backend, and just can't help that I love Perl more than PHP (shows my age, I know).

Enter Blosxom (pronounced "Blossom") to save the day! Posts are stored in a flat file hierarchy, editable with a plain text editor (like Vim), and infinitely configurable with themes and various plugins. I was even able to use the `touch -t` trick to preserve all the dates on my old posts (of which there were only a couple, but it is still cool).

Now, I can get back to blogging my life. ;)

Cheers,

CW

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