
I’ve thinking (and [writing][1]) a lot over the last year or so about being in a band. I was fortunate enough to find a laid back, informal bunch of musicians to play with at the now-cancelled Black Sheep session; I had a lot of fun and improved my playing by leaps and bounds when I was attending regularly.
Apart from being adrift again for much of the summer, my one reliable musical outlet was taken away when the Black Sheep Deli abruptly cancelled the weekly old time session that had been held there every Thursday for a number of years. I wasn’t there on the night in question, but apparently several regulars showed up and were told unceremoniously that they couldn’t play there any more.
In case you didn't know, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 doesn't understand a closed `
` XHTML tag; if you try and do something valid like ``, MSIE will simply display a blank white page. Hooray!And I say this *before* tonight's shootout between the Bruins and the St. Louis Blues begins, lest it seem like sour grapes if things don't go the Bruins' way.

I love Python, because it lets me add 15 fields to a MySQL database in about 5 minutes, which is a lot less time than it would have taken to add them manually via the command-line client or PhpMyAdmin:
#!/usr/bin/python
#altertable.py
for i in range(1,6):
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_title` VARCHAR(255);" % i;
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_url` VARCHAR(255);" % i;
print "ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `img%d_caption` TEXT;" % i;
Save as `altertable.py` and run it from the shell:
I've turned off comments for the time being, until I can find a decent [captcha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) plugin that doesn't take an entire morning/evening to install. Deleting spam from the comment moderation queue is only fractionally less annoying than deleting it from a live site. Apologies to the 3 or 4 human beings who have ever actually commented on something here.
I never upgraded to iTunes 6 when it came out back in January of this year, mostly because I generally don't watch video on my PowerBook; the upgrades to the iTunes Store weren't particularly compelling, and the furor over the "MiniStore" didn't exactly leave me feeling warm and fuzzy.
iTunes 7 apparently breaks network sharing with iTunes 5, as I discovered while trying to browse a coworker's library, so today I bit the bullet and upgraded from iTunes 5 to iTunes 7.
I had a flash of inspiration RE: this web site today, and while the current incarnation was a good WordPress learning exercise, I think I can do a lot better. Get ready for another [showcase site](http://andy.greyledge.net/).