Yes, that is correct, I have joined what is probably the latest internet fad, Twitter. I’m not totally sure what I will do with this. Really, I just wanted to see what all the hype was about.
It seems like a up to the minute blogging thing where you send updates as to what you are doing as you do it. If you do not have an unlimited text messaging plan, this could get pricey.
You can find my Twitter page at: http://twitter.com/mkoby.
Yep, we are still looking at the songs of Bill Mallonee (and as a result, Vigilantes of Love). As always, be sure to check out the Bill Mallonee Mp3 Store where you can download the songs and albums we discuss here in DRM-free 320kbps (ultra high-quality) mp3 files. Also for a limited time you can get a free album with the purchase of another. Also the entire Summershine album (the album this week’s song is from) is available for free on a song by song basis.
With the plugs out of the way, lets move onto the song for this week, “I Could be Wrong” from the Summershine album. The album Summershine is an interesting album because it is definitely unlike anything Bill Mallonee or Vigilantes of Love had done previously. The album is a brit-pop album, plain and simple. The band abandoned the Americana sound just this once to write “an album of love songs” focusing on the happy rather than the sad side of life. The song, “I Could be Wrong” is interesting because I think it describes a feeling we all feel when the love of our life walks into a room, right off the bat with the first lyric.
“Well I’m all confused. Well that’s nothing new. It’s pretty easily done, when you walk in the room.”
As I have mentioned previously, Bill has a way of putting things in a way that puts an honest yet poetic perspective on things. In “I Could be Wrong” he wants to point out that his love is saying one thing but her actions are showing another feeling and thus he is confused He sums it up pretty well when he says:
“Sometimes with words you have to look right through. Sometimes the opposite’s true”
All this introspection with a nice brit-pop background really helps sell the song. You really can not imagine this song with the usual Americana sound that Vigilantes of Love is known for. That is part of being a good songwriter, finding the right feel for a song even if it is not something you would normally do.
This is the last Vigilantes of Love song we will look at, we are going to move on to a few of the solo Bill Mallonee songs before wrapping up this series. I will leave you with the lyrics after the jump.
Yep, we are still looking at the songs of Bill Mallonee (and as a result, Vigilantes of Love). As always, be sure to check out the Bill Mallonee Mp3 Store where you can download the songs and albums we discuss here in DRM-free 320kbps (ultra high-quality) mp3 files. Also for a limited time you can get a free album with the purchase of another. Also the entire Summershine album (the album this week’s song is from) is available for free on a song by song basis.
With the plugs out of the way, lets move onto the song for this week, “I Could be Wrong” from the Summershine album. The album Summershine is an interesting album because it is definitely unlike anything Bill Mallonee or Vigilantes of Love had done previously. The album is a brit-pop album, plain and simple. The band abandoned the Americana sound just this once to write “an album of love songs” focusing on the happy rather than the sad side of life. The song, “I Could be Wrong” is interesting because I think it describes a feeling we all feel when the love of our life walks into a room, right off the bat with the first lyric.
“Well I’m all confused. Well that’s nothing new. It’s pretty easily done, when you walk in the room.”
As I have mentioned previously, Bill has a way of putting things in a way that puts an honest yet poetic perspective on things. In “I Could be Wrong” he wants to point out that his love is saying one thing but her actions are showing another feeling and thus he is confused He sums it up pretty well when he says:
“Sometimes with words you have to look right through. Sometimes the opposite’s true”
All this introspection with a nice brit-pop background really helps sell the song. You really can not imagine this song with the usual Americana sound that Vigilantes of Love is known for. That is part of being a good songwriter, finding the right feel for a song even if it is not something you would normally do.
This is the last Vigilantes of Love song we will look at, we are going to move on to a few of the solo Bill Mallonee songs before wrapping up this series. I will leave you with the lyrics after the jump.
It turns out that getting yourself an Ubuntu Linux based Dell PC/Laptop is only $50 cheaper than the same computer with Windows installed.
That doesn’t seem like a big difference. I would have thought at least $100-$200 dollar difference in price between the Linux PCs and Windows PCs. However, you can run Linux quite well on slower computers so you can probably make the difference a little bigger by purchasing a slightly slower processor for the Linux computer.
Last week Google entered the realm of Linux desktop searching with their release of the Google Desktop for Linux. This is big news for Linux users because it brings the extremely popular desktop indexing and searching tool to their desktop. However, it also means that they have yet another choice in the field of applications they can use to index and search their data.
This week, we are going to look at some of the available programs for indexing and searching your desktop under Linux. We are going to look at Beagle, Meta Tracker, and even Google Desktop. We will look at some of the differences between the programs. What they index by default as well as what they can be made to index.
Michael Koby 