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	<title>interrobang (!?)</title>
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	<description>Random Bursts of Ambient Noise</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>iTunes: What a crappy bit of software!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Music</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of Apple tend to be pretty, well, fanatical, hailing everything Apple Inc. do (at least with Steve Jobs at the helm) as the greatest thing since sliced white bread.  The Mac is better than the PC; the iPod is better than the Zune; apples are better than oranges; and so on, and so on, ad nauseam.  In some respects they&#8217;re right: certainly Apple&#8217;s designers have flair and their hardware products sure look good, but I&#8217;m not entirely convinced of their supremacy on the software side of things.  Specifically, iTunes (the software that ships with iPods) is just horrible.
I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Discomfort</title>
		<link>http://www.planetmanuel.com/dirk/?p=113</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After seeing The Road to Psychedelia at the Black Angels gig, I felt compelled to dig into Janis Joplin a bit more.  So I ripped my wife&#8217;s 3-CD boxed set Janis onto my iPod, and dusted off my copy of Myra Friedman&#8217;s book Buried Alive.  I&#8217;d bought the book almost ten years ago during a spending spree at Tower Books (which also netted me Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, and U2: The Unforgettable Fire, both of which also remain unread) so it was probably a little overdue.
Friedman worked for Janis&#8217;s record company (Columbia Records) as Janis&#8217;s publicity agent.  She spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When The Music&#8217;s Over&#8230;lyrics ain&#8217;t poems</title>
		<link>http://www.planetmanuel.com/dirk/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Music</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Danny Sugarman&#8217;s biography of Jim Morrisson, No-One Here Gets Out Alive.  It&#8217;s quite a few years old, but Jim&#8217;s been dead since before the book was written (even so, this is the second edition), so I reasoned that I probably wasn&#8217;t missing much.
I enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies of the artists I like - I find it gives me a better insight into their work, and I enjoy the music more as a result.  But with this book, although I still enjoyed reading it, I wish I hadn&#8217;t read it at all, because I came away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone for a quick game of scrobble?</title>
		<link>http://www.planetmanuel.com/dirk/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I got my iPod I&#8217;ve wanted to find a way to list my &#8216;recently played&#8217; tracks on this Blogsite.  There are a few WordPress plugins and widgets that claim to do this, but they all seemed overly-complicated, requiring additional e-mail accounts, modified server permissions, and god knows what else.  So what with having a life to live and all, I never found the time to dig into them and get any of them working properly.
Then last week a buddy responded to a post of mine in the Music category, mentioning Last.fm which he said tracked people&#8217;s listening habits.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best-selling vs. Best</title>
		<link>http://www.planetmanuel.com/dirk/?p=60</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week another chart/list is published.  Television music channel VH1 has compiled a list of the  &#8216;Best-sold UK Albums of All Time&#8217;.   Compiling such lists seems to have become a major preoccupation with the music press over the last couple of years - something I can only attribute to lazy journalism (and the main reason I cancelled my subscription to Q after 10 years).  VH1 claims their new list has more credibility than most because it is compiled purely from actual sales figures for the past 50-some years. 
The full chart runs to 100 albums, but for brevity, the top 10 [...]]]></description>
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