It must have been ten years ago that New-Wave Networks was born … back when domains used to cost seventy dollars through Internic (aka Network Solutions). All kinds of things came from NewWaveNet — namely the (arguably best) IRC server on the OthersideIRC network. While NewWaveNet isn’t going away, some drastic changes will be happening because of my financial situation. I’ve loved running and being part of the fun on the Otherside, but it’s too expensive to run a free service. Someone suggested that I open irc.new-wave.net up to donations and, well, that’s the only way it’ll possibly live past February 11th. So, if you frequent my server or the OthersideIRC network, think about making a donation to save one of the longest-running, most stable servers we’ve got. In the event that it can’t remain live even with donations, all funds will be returned … but I hope that doesn’t happen; it’s been a big part of my life.
If you can, help me keep this alive — $10, $25, $50, you name it — anything can help bring more life to a classic part of the OthersideIRC network. Thanks for all of you that have had the pleasure of exploring irc.new-wave.net; it’s been a pleasure serving your internet relay chat needs for the better part of my life.
“Google seeks to hire only the best. We conduct business following the spirit and the intent of the equal opportunity laws and we strive towards maintaining a diverse community. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization, and are not influenced by race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other factor irrelevant to doing a great job.”
How often do you see that?
… has really came back with a good, solid progressive dance track. She’s matured in a fabulous way from the old, smash hit, anthem-pop days (years maybe?) of Rapture. While At the End was in my opinion a good track — not to mention had a fair amount of success compared to the average dance vinyl — not many DJs picked it up. Tiesto’s short-lived infatuation with the song died after he first deputed it for his New Years in NYC set. The other two tracks that she’s dropped, show an artist struggling with the proven method of the past, the attune future not yet found. When I first heard about this song, I was skeptic to even give it a listen because … well, now that I just found this article … makes me feel like I’m bein’ an ass. 
“New York pair iio’s chart-topping club hit ‘Rapture’ is the first single from Universal Records Global Hits 2002 collection, released February 2002. The song is a heady mixture of house and pop music with a haunting vocal hook and a disco-driven bass. Creatively, Markus and Nadia complement each other. ‘Rapture’ began as an anthem Moser composed at the behest of his friend Mike Bindra, then-manager of the New York nightclub Twilo. The song hit #2 on the U.K. singles chart and on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and was remixed by artists ranging from Deep Dish to John Creamer and Stephane K to Riva. “We started out doing this on an underground level,“ says Markus. “And not only is mainstream radio embracing us, but the people in the clubs haven’t abandoned us. That’s very important to iio, that we not be sellouts. We knew `Rapture` was hot the minute we started writing it, but we’re still amazed at what we’ve accomplished with this song, and we’re totally blown away at how much people dig it.““
Upon finding out that a MP3 pirating group, HLSMP3, released my Andain remix, saying that it was a “promo CD-r” they ripped it from — not to mention that it was a released track, I decided I should release some live sets that I’ve recorded. Actually, I decided that I should release all the sets I spin…not sure why though. The crazy-ass phobia I used to have of turning on my ARQ Unit to record me spinning has subsided because, well, it’s like Jon said: if you record every time you spin, you won’t be spinning for the audience that may someday hear that audio file; you’ll be laying down tracks the way you love, the way that feels right.
Hah!
So, I guess I should warn you now that these first two (original posts here) have some painfully obvious errors in them, but that’s okay. I really want to start getting feedback on the style I’ve developed in the past sixteen months to see what others think about it. Ignore the errors, I got overly confident, but do — please — give me your brutally honest opinion. I’ve got some TranceTraffic and some TranceAddicts all over it too.
They’re only compatible with IE, but I’ve never posted them publically. It’s my view, the first and second editions.
During my recent escapades through numerous airports on my way to Boston just days after Snow Hurricane 2005, I often called United to see if they could do anything to expedite the process. United uses one of those voice recognition systems which don’t really understand what you say and keep telling you that. One time after it didn’t understand what I was saying, I started cussing at it to see if that would garner the reponse I was looking for. *SHOCK* It didn’t. The linked BoingBoing article discusses how companies that “may monitor your calls for quality assurance” also monitors and records many other amusing things…like me requesting a “happy ending” when United’s automated operator asked me what I’d like to do. 
“For every $100 given to these groups in the month of December, Downhill Battle will send one lump of coal to the RIAA and MPAA. This is not a joke — we are literally going to look up their addresses and send them coal.”
And they did.
I’m gonna have to agree with Cory Doctorow here, and drop my jaw in lieu of this PEW study.
One: Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much….
Two: Only 38% of users are aware of the distinction between paid or “sponsored” results and unpaid results.
When my Danger Sidekick doesn’t have service, I feel only half-complete (haha) because I can’t Google everything that comes to my mind. This part is crazy talk! On the second one, I’m not terribly surprised because there’s enough users clicking pop-ups that look like windows forms warning of detected viruses for it to be profitable. Huh.
New York publisher Doubleday (owned by Random House) is set to release The al Qaida Reader — a history of the terror network in its leaders’ own words — next year. With Ashcroft on the way out, I doubt anyone in the administration will try to stop and/or block the book from being published. As Jon pointed out though, there’s nothing they won’t do. We’ll see.
There’s this circle of influential bloggers that complain back and forth. On the bright side, they’re both having some good, deep discussions about the ever-blurring line between blogs and deceptive marketing.
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