Most of October has passed since I relaunched this site, and it seems dead again. Not so fast.

For the past two weeks or so, I've been working on corralling various REST APIs from Musicbrainz, Discogs.com, Last.fm and iLike to create a discography.

It doesn't aim to be thorough like other discography efforts, but it does try to bring together data from various sites into one. If I can get this effort to work, I might revisit the Musicwhore.org Archive, which could definitely use some fleshing out.

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— Posted: 2009-10-24 11:35:41

Over the years, this domain has been a number of things -- a parody of a web portal, a not-quite-kosher streaming server -- but mostly, it's just been a parked domain.

Well, now it's back, and it's pretty much a laboratory.

When I first registered this domain in 1999, all you needed to build a remotely decent web site was an FTP program and text editor. Today, it's all about the frameworks and AJAX and social media and ...

I found myself in a position where I needed to update my training. But what was I going to build? Another content management system for a blog?

Nah. Why not combine two interests -- Duran Duran and web development -- into one? Luckily, I have this domain.

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— Posted: 2009-10-03 11:12:50