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Freeform Faust's playlist for January 27, 2006

By Faust Gertz on Saturday 28 January 2006 at 3 p.m. | Leave a comment

Listener Sommer

Featured listener: Listener Sommer, who probably isn't listening because she didn't know that today's show started two hours later than usual.

Tune to KWLC on select Saturdays from 4:30pm—6:00pm (CST) to hear Freeform Faust.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 27, 2006 (Krautrock Sing-Along)
Artist	Album	Track	Notes
The Feelies	Crazy Rhythms	The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness
Brian Eno	Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)	Third Uncle
Mulatu Astatke	Broken Flowers (Soundtrack)	Yegelle Tezet	Faust speaks
Bjork	The Music From Drawing Restraint 9	Storm
Faust	Faust	Why Don't You Eat Carrots?	For Listener Deb, who loves to play the triangle
Barbara Buchholz	Theremin—Russia With Love	Ay Ne Ne
Dengue Fever	Broken Flowers (Soundtrack)	Ethanopium	Faust speaks
Mulatu Astatke	Broken Flowers (Soundtrack)	Yekermo Sew	Faust keeps on speaking
Ben Folds	Songs For Silverman	Jesusland	Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	The Brave And The Bold	Daniel	If this album had been out last week, I would played this track for featured Listener Daniel. As it wasn't, I was forced to play Sir Elton John instead.
Jeff Mitchell		Let's Leave Her Here	Rough mix from a soon(?) to be released CD.
The Willis	Bathtub, Lightbulb, Heartattack.	Jimmy Fallon: The Plan	Learn how to make a WAV file and burn a CD-R.
Cat Power	The Greatest	Love And Communication	A mp3 of the title track is available from Matador Records.
Sister Gertrude Morgan	365 Day Project	Let Us Make A Record	Download 'Let Us Make A Record' in an MP3 format.
John Rydgren	365 Day Project	A Beautiful Girl/Music To Watch Girls By	Download 'A Beautiful Girl/Music To Watch Girls By' in an MP3 format.
Mulatu Astatke	Broken Flowers (Soundtrack)	Yegelle Tezet	Faust speaks. +1.563.387.1240 isn't ringing in the studio, so please try +1.563.387.1241 instead.
Can	Monster Movie	Yoo Doo Right	Call +1.563.387.1241 to join in on the Krautrock Sing-Along! Find the lyrics for 'Yoo Doo Right' towards the bottom of this entry.
Dengue Fever	Broken Flowers (Soundtrack)	Ethanopium	Faust speaks

Notes

Late Start

Please note that today's show began two hours later than usual. Did the extra two hours of prep time make for a better show? You'll have to listen to find out.

Krautrock Sing-Along

Today I am going to have my first ever Krautrock Sing-Along! The song is Can's 'Doo Yoo Right' off of Monster Movie. The lyrics can be found in the full version of this entry. Please call the station (+1.563.387.1240) around 5:30pm to participate. The song is twenty minutes long, so there will be plenty of time for many to call in and sing. This may be the first ever Krautrock Sing-Along in AM radio history, so please tell your friends and make sure to listen.

I, Pencil

I am still waiting for an answer to Listener Eric's question: "Who knows how to make a number two pencil?" Please call (+1.563.387.1240) or e-mail (FreeFormFaust at GMail dot com) if you have an answer. The first listener to provided the answer Listener Eric seeks will receive a pack of number two pencils. At his discretion, Listener Eric may also take the winner for a cab ride.

Let me offer some help and clear up some confusion. You don't need to know how to make a number two pencil yourself. You simply need to be able to provide the name of a single person on the face of this earth, if any, who knows how to make a number two pencil. Milton Friedman knows the answer. Leonard E. Read knew it too. Do a Google search and so can you.

Wanted: Featured Listeners

Want to be a featured listener? Send a photo and a few words about yourself to FreeFormFaust at GMail dot com.

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Writing Maltese on the Web

By Daniel Stout on Friday 27 January 2006 at 12 p.m. | Leave a comment

Here is a brief How-To for writing Maltese, the native language of Malta, on the Web.

I had been searching for a synopsis of writing the Maltese language via a web page but in my search didn't find what I was looking for, so I am sharing with you what I learned. This is intended for people who either don't have access to a Maltese language keyboard or wish to encode the web pages with Unicode characters for greatest portability.

First are the character encoding used to render the letters of the Maltese alphabet. Most of the characters can be entered with an English language keyboard. But on a web page or a blog, for example, these escape characters can be used:

Character	HTML (Decimal)
Ċ	Ċ
ċ	ċ
Ġ	Ġ
ġ	ġ
Ħ	Ħ
ħ	ħ
Ż	Ż
ż	ż

You can use those values in the right column instead of the characters, and when displayed on the web they will display as the characters of the Maltese alphabet as seen in the left column.

Another thing to keep in mind is the encoding of the web page. The page needs to be encoded with the Unicode encoding called UTF-8. This can be set in your blogging software, or look in the <head> section of your web page for something like the following:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Also common web fonts are the way to go. Modern versions of Times New Roman, Georgia, Arial, etc. all contain the characters for the Maltese language.

You may want to take a look at this entry on the Maltese Alphabet for the complete alphabet.

Update: In the above chart, I switched from using the HTML hex values to the decimal values. The decimal values are shorter and perhaps easier to remember as well as having better web browser support than the hex values.

The Maltese Alphabet

By Daniel Stout on Friday 27 January 2006 at 12 p.m. | 1 comment

The Maltese Alphabet consists of 24 Consonants and 5 Vowels. The vowels are: a, e, i, o, u.

The following is the alphabet:
- A, a is pronounced ah as in English far (il bogħod) or uh as in dust (trab); example: dar (house).
- B, b is pronounced beh as in English bed (sodda); example: bejt (roof).
- Ċ, ċ is pronounced chec as in English church (knisja); example: ċajt (jokes).
- D, d is pronounced deh as in English destiny (destin, din); example: dwejra (a small house).
- E, e is pronounced eh as in English end (tarf); example: sena (year).
- F, f is prounced effeh as in English fat (oħxon) or gh in laugh (daħka); example: felu (colt).
- Ġ, ġ is pronounced jeh as in English jest (ħlieqa); example: ġew (they came).
- G, g is pronounced ger as in English game (logħba); example: gamblu (shrimp).
- Għ, għ is silent when preceding or following any one of the vowels a, e, o; before the vowel i it takes the sound of the English igh in night; example: għada (tomorrow).
- H, h is silent as in English heir (werriet); example: fiha (in her).
- Ħ, ħ is pronounced ehheh as in English his (tiegħu); example: ħelwa (sweet).
- I, i is pronounced ee as in English bee (naħla); example: ġir (lime).
- J, j has the consonantal value of the English y in yes (iva); example: jersaq (he moves).
- K, k is pronounced like the English k in kerchief (maktur); example: kesħa (cold).
- L, l is pronounced like l in English lent (misluf); example: ilma (water).
- M, m is pronounced like m in English much (ħafna); example: mar (he went).
- N, n is pronounced like n in English net (xibka); example: nej (raw).
- O, o is pronounced like o in English bothered (imdejjaq); example: toqba (hole).
- P, p is pronounced like p in English pair (par); example: ipejjep (he smokes).
- Q, q has no corresponding guttural sound in English; it is similar to a hard k or to the cawing of a crow; example: qal (he said).
- R, r is pronounced like r in English rest (serħan); example: ra (he saw).
- S, s is pronounced like s in English sent (mibgħut); example: spiċċat (finished).
- T, t is pronounced like t in English ten (għaxra); example: telaq (he left).
- U, u is pronounced as the English oo in moon (qamar); example: ħuta (fish).
- V, v is pronounced like v in English very (ħafna); example: venven (it soughed).
- W, w has the same value as in English; example: wegħda (vow).
- X, x is pronounced as the English sh in shame (mistħija); example: xemx (sun).
- Z, z is pronounced as the English ds in had served (kien qeda) or ts in bits (bċejjeċ); example: zokk (trunk).
- Ż, ż is pronounced as the English z in zone (żona) and s in deserves (jistħoqq); example: żelaq (he slipped).

The letters ie are regarded as a single letter, as in ġieb (he brought) instead of ġab (he brought), bieb (door) instead of bab (door). They are pronounced like ie in the English word fierce (kiefer).

Exercises for Practice

Endeavour to pronounce the following words, carefully studying the Alphabet when in doubt:—
aħna (we), sħana (heat), marda (illness, sickness), baqqun (pickaxe), bews (kisses), ċirċ (drizzling rain), ċavetta (key), dejqa (narrow, feminine), xena (scene), ferħ (joy, jubliation), xellugi (left-handed), gost (pleasure), buqar (jug), tagħna (our, of us), ħamsa (five), dehen (discernment), melħ (salt), wirja (show, demonstration), ħniena (pity), kittieb (writer, novelist), lanqas (neither, nor), nirien (fires), qomos (shirts), perżut (ham), qam (he rose), reqq (he became thin), suf (wool, hair, fleece), iswed (black), xandar (he divulged, he proclaimed, he made public), zokk (trunk), żamm (he kept), siefer (he travelled or Travel!).

Count the number of Consonants and Vowels in each of the above words.

The above text comes from Maltese in Easy Stages (8th ed.) by Albert M. Cassola.

Please see the following entry on Writing Maltese on the Web.

Amadeus turns a ripe old 250 today

By Daniel Stout on Friday 27 January 2006 at 7 a.m. | Leave a comment

To celebrate the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the university's classical station KSUI is playing Mozart all day. Lucky you, they stream over the internet. You'll need Real Player to listen to the stream, which is here.

Herr Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg. We recall that our blogmate Faust Gertz once said that Amadeus was overrated, and that Beethoven was far better. We wonder out loud if he still subscribes to this view, which is perfectly fine if he does. But unfortunately we'll have to wait until 17 December 2020 for Ludwig's 250th. Perhaps KSUI can be enticed to have a Beethoven day before then. Wouldn't that be fun?—a battle of the composers. They could do that during a fund drive—play a work by Mozart and see how many people call in with pledges and then play a piece by Beethoven and compare. I won't even charge KSUI for that idea because I want them to keep doing what they do. (Thx to Margalea.)

As an aside: my personal request to KSUI is to have a late night weekend show of twentieth century music. I'd certainly be willing to host the show, given my vast radio experience with KWLC and KRUI. That would be wonderful.

Lucky Mile 77,777

By Daniel Stout on Wednesday 25 January 2006 at 9 a.m. | 3 comments

Scott is a wild man. Not only does he speed when he's driving, he's busy taking pictures with his cameraphone while he's doing it. Congrats on passing Lucky Mile 77,777. But dude, that's dangerous!

The Feed Icon - A new visual standard

By Daniel Stout on Tuesday 24 January 2006 at 3 p.m. | 3 comments

We agree with Rogers Cadenhead that it is time to break out the icons. The folks over at Mozilla produced an icon to go with RSS feeds in Firefox, the browser alternative. Designed by Stephen Horlander, the icon maintains the prior orange RSS standard but does away with funky acronyms like XML, instead going for a completely visual, logo-like appearance. The icon is definitely a new standard because Microsoft will also be using it in Internet Explorer 7. So as of today, we've replaced the "RSS 2.0" links on our three feeds at Manufactured Environments with little Feed Icons.

You may be thinking to yourself: "I want in! I want to be part of this new standard in visual RSS bloggery." Fortunately there's a nice little website that contains the new Feed Icon in a bevy of formats and sizes, ranging from itsy 10x10 icons up to the 128x128 monster we have displayed in this blog entry. Oh, yeah, the site is Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard. If you've got a blog, we encourage you to use the icons for your feed(s).

If you're saying to yourself: "What the funk is RSS?" Then we say to you: "Ah-ha! Not to worry! We'll be back to the not-so-technical topics soon. Hang in there!"

Meddling

By Daniel Stout on Saturday 21 January 2006 at 9 p.m. | 4 comments

He: In his Autumn before the Winter comes Man's last mad surge of Youth.

She: What on Earth are you talking about?

Listen.

You may have noticed a bit of downtime on Manufactured Environments as we switched back to our web host of favor, pair Networks. Things are all switched over now, and hopefully everybody is pointing to the same servers. We spent a couple of weeks over at DreamHost, and frankly, we weren't that impressed. We've been using pair for a long time, and we must admit that we're used to the Gold Standard that they set in terms of uptime, speed, and server availability. For us, the important thing is that the site is available to you the viewer, and with pair we're assured a consistent, steady uptime. Because we're thorough we verify these things with pinging services, and while uptime with pair was virtually 100% in our experience, DreamHost offered plenty of little glitches and hiccups in service over the couple of weeks we were hosting over there. At any rate, we're glad to be back.

We hope that our blogmate Faust is understanding and will post his playlist from today's Freeform Faust radio show on KWLC. We were delighted to listen in today and catch such classics as Swan Lake by Public Image Ltd.

So we're done with our machinations for now. We hope y'all are having a groovy little weekend.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 21, 2006

By Faust Gertz on Saturday 21 January 2006 at 3 p.m. | Leave a comment

Listener Daniel

Featured listener: Listener Daniel
(An early ninties self-portrait taken on the seafront in Sliema, Malta.)

Tune to KWLC on select Saturdays from 2:30pm—4:00pm (CST) to hear Freeform Faust.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 21, 2006 (Robot Revolt)
Artist	Album	Track	Notes
Black Sabbath	Symptom of the Universe—The Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)	Supernaut
Gordon Lightfoot	Gord's Gold	Old Dan's Records
Dinosaur Jr.	You're Living All Over Me	Just Like Heaven	Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	Now I Got Worry	Chicken Dog	Another Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
The Future Sound Of London	The Far-Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman	The Far-Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman	Yet another Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Focus	Hocus Pocus: The Best Of Focus	Hocus Pocus
Elton John	Greatest Hits 1970-2002	Daniel
Ben Webster	King of the Tenors	Danny Boy	Faust speaks
Art Of Noise	Below The Waste	Dan Dare
Elvis Presley	King Creole	Danny
Roland Hayes	Charlton Heston Reads The New Testament	Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Front 242	Front By Front	Welcome To Paradise
Ministry	Psalm 69	Jesus Built My Hotrod
Meat Beat Manifesto	99%	Dogstar Man/Helter Skelter
Mekons	Punk Rock	Dan Dare
Ramones	Hey! Ho! Let's Go!	Danny Says
Public Image Ltd. (PiL)	Second Edition	Swan Lake	Last week's Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Nitzer Ebb	Belief	Shame	Another of last week's Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Jim Roll	Inhabiting the Ball	Handsome Daniel
Kraftwerk	Minimum-Maximum	The Robots	Robots take over the show!
Shelly Manne & his Men	At the Blackhawk	Blue Daniel	Faust regains control and speaks

Arts & Letters Daily

By Daniel Stout on Monday 16 January 2006 at 2 p.m. | Leave a comment

It's been a long time since we've linked to Arts & Letters Daily, but thought it needed pointing out that if you're looking for an edited selection of links to a whole bevy of articles, A&L Daily is the place to go. The links along with a one or two line synopsis are divided into three categories: Articles of Note, New Books, and Essays and Opinion.

It's now a "service" of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and it's still good. If you're looking for some good reading, plenty of fields to plow on Arts & Letters Daily.

They cover:

philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip

and a whole host of other interesting subjects. We still love it, but we must admit to preferring RSS as a way to get this kind of synopsis news. Arts & Letters Daily would be well to syndicate their content through RSS, and they would reach a new level of readership. So today we salute Arts & Letter Daily and hope that soon we'll be able to read them through our RSS reader.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 14, 2006

By Faust Gertz on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 1 p.m. | Leave a comment

Listener Amalia and someone named Theo

Featured listener: Listener Amalia and someone named Theo (who probably doesn't listen)

Tune to KWLC on select Saturdays from 2:30pm—4:00pm (CST) to hear Freeform Faust.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 14, 2006 (Technical Difficulties)
Artist	Album	Track	Notes
The Willis	Bathtub. Lightbulbs. Heartattack.	Believe in Stereo
Jeff Mitchell		Born Pathetic	Requested by Listener Tanya
Sandman	The Long Ride Home	Radio Works Fine	Download 'Radio Works Fine' in an MP3 format.
Mike McAbee	Live at the Cresco Opera House	542664
Various Artist	Bossa Cubana	Amalia Rosa	I can't find a listing for the artist. The track appears on both Bossa Cubana and Mambo which were released by an Italian label called 'Azzurra Music'.
Marvin Miller	Dr. Seuss Presents: Fox in Sox	Too Many Daves	Requested by Listener Amalia
William Cepeda And Grupo Afro Boricua	Bomba	Amalia (No Quiere Ir Ebozo)
Kirk Degiorgio Presents As One	21st Century Soul	Amalia	Faust speaks
Bang on a Can	Cheating, Lying, Stealing	Amalia's Secret: An Especially fine Dress Rag Amalia, Hanging in A Painting Two Heads, Sitting Together, Snapping the Dreams of Your Sap Swallow the Neck of the Guest Who Hisses When You Pass Modelled After the One for Your Parents The Smallet Glimmer Disturbs Them A Weak Little Gentleman, Gazing, Too Dumb to Wonder The Letter Opened, the Bottle Broken Shamefaced Smiles and the Back of Frailty All Debts Owed Paid, She'd Survive This Too	Composed by Nick Didkovsky
Michael Mills	365 Day Project	Hidden & Satanic Messages in Rock Music
Trip Shakespeare	Across the Universe	Turtledove	Requested by Listener Amalia
Jack McDuff	Brotherly Love	Santa Amalia	Faust and Listener Amalia speak
The Decemberists	Picaresque	The Mariner's Revenge Song	Requested by Listener Mr. Daniel Stout
Gavin Friday And The Man Sneezer	Next---A Tribute To Jacques Brel	Next
Jacques Brel	Quinze Ans D'Amour	Ne Me Quitte Pas
Charles Lloyd	Jumping The Creek	Ne Me Quitte Pas	Faust and Listener Amalia speak

Notes

Want to be a featured listener? Send a photo and a few words about yourself to FreeFormFaust at GMail dot com.

Here is an economics joke sent in by listener Eric.: There was a physicist, a chemist, and an economist stranded on a desert island. All they had to eat was a can of tuna fish. They first turned to the physicist for an idea on how to get at the tuna. He suggested they hit it with a rock. That didn't work. So the chemist said that he happened to have some hydroxyclorideophine and that should eat through the can. Well that didn't work. So they turned to the economist and the economist said, "Well, let's first assume we have a can opener."

Sun Ra Radio visits KFAI

By Faust Gertz on Thursday 12 January 2006 at 11 p.m. | Leave a comment

Photo by Hans Kumpf via Robert's Jazz Corner

I've been working around the clock this week and listening to a lot of radio. Tonight, I listened to the first of two Sun Ra specials on KFAI-FM's Collective Eye. Curt McNamara, filling in for regular host Janis Lane-Ewart, played a variety of Sonny's music (including some out of print Saturn and Horo vinyl), read from Robert Campbell's Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Lecture, and spoke by phone to a Sun Ra enthusiast. I enjoyed hearing someone else's take on an all Sun Ra show and was happy to hear some of my favorite tunes too.

You can listen to Curt's next all Sun Ra show on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 10:30 PM CST on KFAI-FM 90.3 Minneapolis/106.7 St Paul. Tonight's show should be available in the program archives for the next two weeks.

P.S.: I wish KFAI's streams were of better quality. The archives and main live stream is RealAudio 20k/44k. There are two "experimental" live IceCast streams (24k mono and 64k stereo), but the 64k stereo stream cut out a couple time during the two hours I listened.
P.P.S.: Eric Fifteen's Voice Cried Softly sounds like a pretty rockin' show too.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 7, 2006

By Faust Gertz on Saturday 7 January 2006 at 1 p.m. | Leave a comment

Listener Eric Paulson

Featured listener: Lipstick stained Eric Paulsen

Tune to KWLC on select Saturdays from 2:30pm—4:00pm (CST) to hear Freeform Faust.

Freeform Faust's playlist for January 7, 2006 (Goodbye to Lou)
Artist	Album	Track	Notes
Ministry	Just One Fix	Just One Fix (W.S.B.)	William S. Burroughs rocks!
The Roots	Phrenology	The Seed (2.0)	Daniel Stout Rockin' Song of the Show
Sandman	Live and Suspicious	Suspicious	Download 'Suspicious' in an MP3 format.
Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg	SNL	Lazy Sunday	Folks seem to be absolutely crazy about this track. Watch the video.
The Space Lady	365 Days Project	Major Tom	Mesmerizing! Download 'Major Tom' in a MP3 format. Download songs from the Space Lady's EP Street-level Superstar (Owed to Boston) from Comfort Stand.
Murry Wilson	365 Days Project	Colonel's March	Get the Murry Wilson tapes and other goodies from I'm A Genius, Too! The Murry Wilson Tapes from WFMU's Beware of the Blog.
Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band)	365 Days Project	Understanding Marx	Dedicated to listener Eric. Download 'Understanding Marx' in an MP3 format.
Ray Charles	Genius & Soul - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Vol. 4)	Understanding	Faust Speaks
Lou Rawls	Stormy Monday	(They Call It) Stormy Monday
Lou Rawls	Stormy Monday	God Bless the Child
Lou Rawls	Stormy Monday	I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
Lou Rawls	Stormy Monday	In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
Lou Rawls	Nobody But Lou	Nobody But Me
Lou Rawls	Soulin'	Love Is A Hurtin' Thing
Lou Rawls	Greatest Hits [Curb]	Dead End Street
Lou Rawls	Natural Man	Natural Man
Lou Rawls	Greatest Hits [Curb]	Tobacco Road
Lou Rawls	All Things in Time	Groovy People
Lou Rawls	Cold Power Detergent radio campaign	Cold Power	"Dirt don't seem to jive with Cold Power"! April Winchell has the entire Cold Power Detergent radio campaign from the 60's in a single MP3.
Lou Rawls	Rawls Sings Sinatra	My Kind Of Town/Chicago
Lou Rawls	Rawls Sings Sinatra	One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

Notes

Want to be a featured listener? Send a photo and a few words about yourself to FreeFormFaust at GMail dot com.

Here is an economics joke sent in by listener Eric.: There was a physicist, a chemist, and an economist stranded on a desert island. All they had to eat was a can of tuna fish. They first turned to the physicist for an idea on how to get at the tuna . He suggested they hit it with a rock. That didn't work. So the chemist said that he happened to have some hydroxyclorideophine and that should eat through the can. Well that didn't work. So they turned to the economist and the economist said "Well, let's first assume we have a can opener."

House Party: Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy and Jeff Mitchell

By Faust Gertz on Tuesday 3 January 2006 at 1 p.m. | Leave a comment

Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy

Chris "Sandman" Sand is the Rappin' Cowboy

Killdeer, North Dakota's Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy and Decorah, Iowa's very own Jeff Mitchell will perform on the third floor of my home on January 3rd at 8:00pm. This impromptu house party is BYOB and, unless you don't mind standing or sitting on the floor, BYOC. There is no cover, but fine merchandise will be available for purchase and a hat will be passed.

Who: Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy and Jeff Mitchell
What: Playing their hearts out
When: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 8:00pm
Where: 108 W. Rural Avenue
3rd floor (around the back and up the stairs)
Decorah, IA 52101
Cost: Pass the hat
MP3 Samples: 'Suspicious' by Sandman The Rappin' Cowboy; 'Jug Band Music' by Jeff Mitchell with the Jackson Street Polecats
Other: BYOB & BYOC

Happy New Year!

By Daniel Stout on Monday 2 January 2006 at 5 p.m. | 2 comments

Howdy, folks. Thanks for a great 2005, and here's looking forward to an even better 2006. Hope you had a good one, and many good wishes for the year to come. It's certain to be a year of change and a year of moving forward.

As I look back on 2005, I see many good things that happened in the online world. Faust Gertz joined this blog. A lot of people I know started blogging this past year. It's been an interesting year online. I've also seen a few of my favorite blogs drop off in activity. As a flood of new bloggers came onto the scene, some of the old school bloggers I know hung up their hats. But all's good. I suspect some of the old timers will be back, if and when circumstances permit. It's been a year of solidification of the blogging movement. The kinds of doublings of growth that Technorati has tracked will definitely peak this year. There will be increasing numbers of people starting blogs but that growth will diminish, and I suspect there will be some people who for whatever reasons will abandon their newfound hobby.

I should note for the record that Manufactured Environments has switched web hosting providers from Pair Networks to DreamHost. We made the switch yesterday, and everything seems to be running well. Let me know if you seen any glitches. Here's to a wonderful 2006!

2005 Year-End Review

By Daniel Stout on Monday 2 January 2006 at 4 p.m. | Leave a comment

Another year has gone by, and it's time to do the 2005 year-end review of statistics from Manufactured Environments. This is mostly like the reviews from 2004 and 2003.

Top 10 Search Engine Searches for 2005

bats
fotos
Parvin Dhaliwal
CCC Revolved
electronica
fotos de angeles
Malta
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Trip Shakespeare
music mixes

Top 5 Blog Entries (by traffic) for 2005

Top 5 Fotos (by traffic) for 2005

Top 6 Browsers for December 2005

Firefox 53.6%
Internet Explorer 33.9%
Opera 4.9%
Safari 2.4%
Mozilla 2.1%
Konquerer 2.1%
All other browsers 1.0%

Top 5 Operating Systems for December 2005

Windows XP 65.8%
Linux 18.5%
Windows 2000 6.9%
Mac OS X 4.8%
Windows 98 2.7%
All other operating systems 1.3%

Have yourself a splendid 2006!

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