Let's Get a Little Slang On...

While I don't think it was as close to a commercial success as several of their previous albums, Slang still had several good tracks in the usual Def Leppard rock style.  Here's the title track, and one of the ones I am still prone to add to a mix track for driving music.

Rock & Roll All Night...

While not a member of the Kiss Army (by any stretch), I do have an affinity for any good rock songs, and this one is classic - and actually adapted pretty well for an Unplugged session.

Slowhand

Probably the best to use the Unplugged format for exploring different sounds - bringing new listeners to music and songs they may not have otherwise heard - was Clapton.  As great as the original Layla is, I actually prefer the Unplugged version... there's just something much more powerful with the control it brings... but here's one that's completely different, and a nice example for the other songs he brings to the table.  It's mostly because of Clapton that I've gone out and sought after different blues artists, to at least get a familiarity.

Fun with Subdomains

Over the last few days I’ve been making some changes to by site plans…  I had mentioned before that I have been considering porting over to  another service.  That service is Wordpress, and the reasons may seem silly, but they made sense at the time that I started everything: compatibility, publicity & maintenance.

Wordpress has struck me as more “Forward Thinking” in developing and enabling features than Blogger, from mobile viewing [compatibility] to site feeds through other social media [publicity], and tracking site statistics, comment moderation features [maintenance].  They had “mobile formatting” ahead of Blogger, and they already have site feeds/push notifications for most of the major social networking as built in options.  That said, there are features with Blogger that I like, ones that I am still trying to figure out alternatives for on Wordpress.

But here’s the point I wanted to get to… I am planning on getting some business cards printed before going to Worldcon next month… something simple, to have something on hand for networking.  Before I get anything printed, I wanted to  get some tweaks and kinks worked out.  One of the tweaks I’ve been especially wanting to resolve involves pointing my existing domain name to a blog and tying them both together… something a little more sophisticated than blind domain forwarding (which would mask any of the subpages…).  So for the last couple of nights I’ve been tweaking DNS entries and domain forwarding properties, experiencing loads of frustration getting everything figured out – which is to be expected for a first time set-up.  Finally, today (this morning), I had a touch of epiphany and was able to get the situation resolved (even tested on a couple of different platforms)…

So now I have a working subdomain plotted and ID forwarding… go me.