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A Little Cheech & Chong Goodness For Ya

Just the briefest of audio clips of the masters at work, man. Only about 15 seconds as an MP3, but still worth it. Listen to it here.

Purple Tuesday #7

Just got back from my seventh open stage at Purple Tuesdays. Cool night. I was fourth on the docket and had to follow some damn good, full on electric bands, but I got some pretty good feedback, so I'm happy.

Still, seven performances and not a single repeated song. :)

Here's the setlist, should you care.

Let's Go (Continue The Ass Whoopin' On Them Flyers) Pens!

Melissa Dettwiller Flexing Pecs

Isn't it amazing what a little diet and exercise can do for the human body? :)

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Joomla: "Too many pages" error.

To fix:

In file ~/components/com_sef/sef_ext.php

Change this:

	// see if we have a result for this location
        $sql = "SELECT newurl, Itemid FROM #__redirection WHERE oldurl = '".$temploc."'";
        $database->setQuery($sql);

        if ($iteration > 9999) {
		die('Too many pages.');
	}

To this:

	// see if we have a result for this location
	$sql = "SELECT newurl, Itemid FROM #__redirection WHERE oldurl = '".$temploc."'";
	$database->setQuery($sql);

	if ($iteration > 99999) {
		die('Too many pages.');
	}

It's ON Philly!

Higher Quality YouTube Audio

I just got a tip on a the forums at ultimate-guitar.com, that if you add fmt=18 to the YouTube URL that you get a higher quality audio version of the video. Here's a good page about it.

You can here the difference with a direct comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2Wyw2rL-A (standard)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2Wyw2rL-A&fmt=18 (fmt=18)

Now if only I could figure out a way to force my YouTube channel to post the fmt=18 links automatically.

Video: "Pain of Losing You" by Sugapablo

Uploaded my second video to YouTube, "Pain of Losing You". (lyrics)

I was able to extract the audio from iMovie and import it into Audacity where I could normalize it (a key audio function missing from iMovie) and reattach it to the video, so the audio is a bit better than my first try.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

OMG, YouTube is Down!

I must apologize to the world. I posted my first music video to YouTube yesterday, and because I did so, YouTube is down today. I'm not the only one who can't get there apparently.

You see, it's just my luck. I post a video, tell all my friends to go look at it, and I get embarrased because they can't!

Seriously, Google, how much money do you have? Keep them servers up and running! :P

Edit: Actually, the scuttlebutt online is that YouTube was hacked. Talk about a hacker aimin' to get his ass kicked should he ever brag about his "score"!

Video: Down the Road by Sugapablo

Here's my first stab at recording some of my music. I recorded this on my MacBook with iMovie and a Blue Snowball USB microphone. The guitar is the Fender CD60CE I just bought.

This is an original song called "Down the Road". (lyrics)

Click here to view the video on YouTube. Hope you like it! :)