Saturday, August 26, 2006

Best Year In Music?

So I was thinking about 2006 in music...It's been a good year with Rabbit Fur Coat, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, At War With the Mystics, Return to Cookie Mountain, The Avalanche and sheer awesomeness like The Crane Wife and Emily Haines's solo album yet to come.

But compare that to some of the music years of the past.  For example, here are the highlights of 1971:

  • All Things Must Pass
  • Aqualung
  • Blue
  • Electric Warrior
  • Hunky Dory
  • Imagine
  • L.A. Woman
  • Led Zeppelin IV
  • Meddle
  • Pearl
  • Sticky Fingers
  • Tarkus
  • What's Goin On
  • Who's Next (which, if you ask me, is the best rock album of all time)

WOW.  It's hard to imagine a year that huge today, even with the current upswing in great music from the indie scene.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Windows Live Writer

Blogger is one of the slicker things I've seen on the Internet, but lately I've been getting fed up with it's rich text editor.  It seems like unless you write things in a certain order (like quoting and italics), it's too easy to have things screw up.  I'm not sure if this is a problem with Blogger and Firefox or just Blogger in general, but it happens.

So, it's very cool that Microsoft has released the Windows Live Writer (which I'm using to write this now).  Basically, it's a normal Windows desktop app with an Office-like look that lets you post (despite the name) to basically every popular type of blog.

Kudos to Microsoft for coming up with something this cool and making it broadly compatible.