Summary of the unexplained...

Urgent news!!!! A BLACK DAY FOR blogs

Although music blogs may still continue.. finding a file server to host on may prove to be the most difficult part of any post...

It appears that after Megauploads's shutdown, FEAR has gripped the File hosting services community.
They're falling like dominos
At last report.. FILESONIC has closed it's doors to file sharing..
If you live in the U.S.A. UPLOADED.TO has shut it's doors

There are unconfirmed rumors that three more services will be following suit..

I read somewhere someone said "the wild west days of the internet are over"

It's happened before..


UPDATE! UPDATE!
After a few more hours....Fileserve has now closed its doors too..

It's over.. folks....

UPDATE! UPDATE! again..
FileJungle has now blocked USA  IP addresses, and they're deleting huge swaths of accounts

and here is a pastebin summary by an 'Insider" who chose to remain anonymous...
Apparently the exact state of this crackdown is a bit hush-hush..

MegaUpload - Closed.

- FileServe - Closing does not sell premium.

- FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..

- UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..

- FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).

- VideoBB - Closed! would disappear soon.

- Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.

- FilePost - Deleting all material (so will leave executables, pdfs, txts)

- Videoz - closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.

- 4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.

- MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI

-Org torrent - could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation"

- Network Share mIRC - awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything.

- Koshiki - operating 100% Japan will not join the SOUP / PIPA

- Shienko Box - 100% working china / korea will not join the SOUP / PIPA

- ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOUP / PIPA

Apparently this is *not* information that they want the public to know, nor is it that , for instance, it is no longer possible to delete files, or turn off sharing at 4shared .. and maybe others too..
Because they had it turned on as default, some backups I made from my last reinstall, were set to be shared.. now I can neither delete them or turn off sharing..
Well, it's fixed now
THEY'RE COMING FOR US ALL!!

I'm also duplicating this continuing update at http://cassettecoverartlib.blogspot.com/

The Machine a.k.a Muppet Machine

You simply have got to see this!

Rowan Atkinson as Doctor Who...

Please Travel over to the 'Cassette Cover Art Library"

That's the most recent blog of mine.. Cassette Cover Art Library
And it has Tons of Hi-res scans of hundreds of the rarest cassettes in the world..
I'm hoping it gets more traction than this blog.. because of the complete lack of interest in my music, both here and at home, I've quit playing music for good..
Try out there.. you won't find these scans anywhere else in the world ( I know, I've looked myself..)..
And remember, if you like pinbal.. there;s always that one too.. (check the links..)

The Criminalization of the Internet

Looks like your american politians really *meant* it when they made statements like like "we can really learn a lot from china about how to control the internet" etc etc..
And Iran.. and any other models of democracy...

Back Again...

Well, folks..as any of you that were here in the beginning know, this started out as a music blog, to showcase my recordings done when I was still in the biz.. I (wrongly) thought there would be an interest out there for recordings featuring my not only playing all the instruments (keys gutars drums bass etc) as well as arranging and producing full studio quality albums at a cost of only 50$, on no more than a cassette deck..
Well, I know, now, nobody is at all interested as after 3 years i've had less that a dozen listens and almost no comments..
So instead, I've been just posting whatever interests me, lately, and that would be IMHO the things that really *matter*, as we'll all bite it some day, and anyways, things are never as they seem..
So another one here..
As some of you may know, the drug companies all over the world are working on taking off the shelves *all* herbnal remedies , the ones that really work, anyways.
If the Codex reg=ulation is fully implemented, anything that *works* will be banned until somebody pays the hundreds of thousands of dollars *per8 supplement to do multi year studies to prove they're both "safe and Effective"
Now they don't care about our healt.. they're just trying to rtemove the competjition,., so we have to pay for a 'pill' from THEM.
That'sa why they're only concerned with the supplements that actually WORK.. the garbage and bogus cures can stay, they're no threat..
If you ned proof.. here's the ultimate "expose" of the psychiatric pharmacy racket..
Sit back and be horrified..!!!!

Gezellig St. Nikolaas Daag!!

Almost forgot. for my Dutch friends.. (Hi Ron!)

Incidentally, my spell corrector doesn't speak dutch.. help on Gezellig? please?
OK it's the 4th on this blog, but it's the 5th in Holland

This is just unbelievably kool...

A hi-resolution tour of the planet's cities at night..
Because of blurring issues, it was previously impossible to get this kind of clarity, but the ever resourceful crew at the ISS found a way..

Meow

My kitty's NOT punkin however.. she's Puddytat Maximus.... she's black (or should i have sayed a kitty of color..) and plays guitar (hyuk!) .. if you wanna see who she is just look at my avatar...

One strange dude