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Should CSS Hacks Be Used?
CSS Hacks allow Web Designers to target IE and pass extra CSS, but they can be hit or miss. Is there a better way for designers to target IE?
Guitar Hero 3 Hates PS2 My Memory Card
Some of you purchasing Guitar Hero 3 may find when you go to play it that your memory card will not load.
The Max 16mb Memory Card, which requires a boot disc prior to game launch, is not compatible with Guitar Hero 3. According to the manufacturer an alternate boot method can be used for [...]
What does my music say about me?
I’ve attempted to write deeply personally articles describing how my music describes my life, but they have always turned out feeling superficial and dumb, as if it belonged more on someone’s crappy Myspace page than on my personal website. Why is it so hard to write about this? What makes it so difficult. I’ve come up with a theory.
Music is simply too personal
usic is extremely personal. The feeling it gives you is not always given to others. The way a song makes you feel is not always shared with other people listening to the same song. Music touches on a part of us that is intimately tied with our personal experiences and parts of our lives that other people have no access to. Because music can become so intertwined with who we are, it makes describing it like describing a feeling. You know what it feels like, why you like it, and why it is your favorite, but when sharing feelings through communication, there is always something lost in translation. And that something is typically what you were trying to say in the first place.
If I were going to try to describe to you why The Distillers makes be feel happier in times that I’m down here on my website, I’d be in for a fight. First of all I’d be describing the feeling altering effects of an artistic medium, but also I would be attempting to tailor it to you, my audience. That isn’t going to work.
If music is personal, how can I possibly alter what I’m feeling into something that you would want/care to read? You don’t know me. You don’t care about about how Dr. Chud’s X-Ward makes feel. So if I wanted to share it with you I would be forced to alter my message into something compelling to a general audience. This would be nothing more than a watered down version of what I was intending, and I think I owe y’all more than that.