Archive for March, 2005

Ill Crate episode 4

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Here is episode four, dedicated to the memory of industrial-music icon Alien Jourgensen. Well, wait, he’s not dead yet. But you know what we mean. Then of course more blather about The Amazing Race, the pain of being an obsessive MP3 collector, this week’s Weakly Disappointment, and a half-hearted review of Napoleon Dynamite.

Ill Crate episode […]

Ill Crate episode 3

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

And now, episode 3, wherein our heroes discuss mid-’90s retro-synth rockers The Moog Cookbook, this week’s Weakly Disappointment, The Amazing Race, a Beatallica update, and Maria Full of Grace.

Ill Crate episode 3 (39 minutes, 17.9 MB)

Links for this week’s episode

The Moog Cookbook

Info from All Music Guide The […]

Ill Crate episode 2

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

We sure had fun putting this one together. Well, not really. Man, this took forever to edit. That’s what we get for putting so many snippets into one episode. And what an epic episode it is. 44 minutes? We need an egg timer in the studio, I think.

But anyway, here it is, episode 2, wherein […]

If you’ve had trouble with feeds…

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

This post will be in two languages, geek-speak and plain English.

Geek-speak: A bug was discovered in WordPress that caused requests for RSS feeds to return 404 errors that were themselves erroneous. Even more confounding, they wouldn’t show up in the server logs as 404 errors! But our local copy of WordPress has been patched and […]

Attention iPodder users

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Apparently the Ill Crate is too ill for certain versions of iPodder for Windows (1.1.4 and possibly others). We don’t know why, either. But we do know that you can work around it by upgrading to the latest development version of iPodder, which right now is 2.0rc3 (the “rc” stands for “release candidate,” so they’ve […]

Ill Crate episode 1

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Here it is, the first podcast from the Ill Crate, where we talk about Beatallica, The Amazing Race, The United States of Leland, and last but not least, codpieces.

Ill Crate episode 1 (27m22s, 12.5 MB)

In the beginning…

Friday, March 4th, 2005

So this is WordPress, the blogging software we’re going to try out for the Ill Crate. Hopefully it will do what we need to do. But we shall see. Feel free to register yourself on here, then say hi by posting a comment to this. Fun for all!