Sound check - Charm the Room - Talk is cheap · Sunday October 18, 2026 by colin newell
In a World of tears, sorrow and pain, we clearly need more music… more art… and more time simply devoted to accomplishing nothing…
So, I have been playing guitar… for like… 50 years… (51 years if I am being more accurate…) and having played on a few projects… produced… directed… rejected… I am always looking for the next score and not afraid to use whatever tools I have at hand…
So – I am working on a 20 year follow up to an album I released…. gasp 20 years ago… Island Standard Time… tossed out into the ether in the Spring of 2008 by troubadour Charlie Burton and yours truly. We were the Two Old Goats. Now my immediate circle is a wealth of talent young and old… and I am conceptualizing a music project of various artists… a cooperative if you would… the idea: Cook up a project of 15 to 20 great songs… no (and I mean NONE) CD’s, cassettes or vinyl… just a digital release – free for the planet to hear. If we get one listen or a thousand listeners, it will make no difference to me…
One of our singer-writers is Colin Murdock – and here is a sketch of what we are working on. The music will (maybe) bridge the ages and genres. Expect pop, rock, rock-a-billy, country and blue grass. Expect to be surprised. To laugh. To cheer. To shed a tear.
Stay tuned!
Running on History – 2008 Remix
Charm the Room – Talk is cheap
Colin Newell is a Victoria B.C. Canada resident who has been creating content for decades. He will never, ever waste your time…OK. Maybe occasionally… but it is for your own good…
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Updates, this that and those other things... · Monday July 29, 2013 by colin newell
Nothing like staying awake several hours in the night worried about the fact that two of your main websites are dysfunctional after a suggested system update.
In this case, a software update was made to my main coffee website and my main telecom/radio website.
The radio website has a huge technical library on board with a modest subscription service…
meaning I get some coins when someone wants to browse the growing library.
And that makes sense – In many years, my tech library gets upwards of 60,000 document downloads.
That is bandwidth that I have to pay for.
Since instituting a fee subscription service (and a request for donations to keep the service running), the response has been very favorable.
Meaning if you need something, all you need do is ask.
Because everyone is generous… for the most part.
And what of the guitar? I am currently testing out an amazing “black box” for a company that I cannot currently name – it is actually a vocal processor that does natural sounding harmonizing, pitch correction, commercial grade effects rack, phantom power for commercial microphones and lots more. At some point, if I get permission I will review it – and you will get to hear me sing… in many different ways.
Yea. Look forward to that!
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Shaming the forum/comment referral spammers - chapter 1 · Saturday February 23, 2013 by colin newell
Forum spam and website defacement in the form of comment/blog/forum unsolicited shills and ads cost webmasters and editors millions of dollars a year.
I got so fed up with it on one of my websites that I instituted a new registration policy that requires an authentic e-mail address for the user to post anything on my site – As a result I have been regularly harvesting the most notorious of these vandals – with fresh e-mails ready to post to sites like: http://www.stopforumspam.com/ their mission to out these shameful crumbs and the large corporations that they work for.
Here are some examples of actual authenticated e-mail addresses that were used to register on one of my websites that would likely vandalize, deface and spam my forums with referral ads:
reoton@onlinepharmacy-levitra.com – via@viagranowdirect.com – xcvss@lvbagsjapan.com – weeraitale@gmail.com (username – buy zithromax ) – lfqaq@louisvuittonhandbagsprices.info – kevin@onlinepharmacy-order.com –
Forum and comment spammers cost us web folks millions of dollars in clean up every year – they are the lowest form of life on the World wide web and need to be shamed and stopped. They benefit by riding on the success of popular websites and are, sadly, a common method for large corporations to cheaply get their message out.
I have e-mailed hundreds of companies over the years asking why they roam the internet defacing websites to improve their bottom line: Quite often they respond with “We did not know this was going on…” or “We will definitely get to the bottom of this!” I have even been threatened with a law suit after outing a series of forum spammers on the very website they were spamming!
Like I said, they are the lowest form of internet life.
How can you help? Visit support sites like StopForumSpam and out these hucksters and their billionaire partners.
Growing it for a cause - Movember · Friday November 2, 2012 by colin newell
Here is a photo of my UVic – Systems Movember team – feel free to help the cause against cancer – we are growing it, not mowing it – to raise awareness and fight a nasty disease.
Left to right: Paul S. (CIO UVic Systems), Matt S, Donny L, Yours truly, Ryan P, Ryan E, Corey S.
Click here to toss us a couple bucks.
Thanks!
