Things are okay with me, just still chugging along, making my way through nursing school; one day at a time. It’s spring break this week, so it has been nice to just relax all week (even though I should have been studying). Either way, things are going well my way; nothing to report, which is probably the reason for the lack of blog posts. Regardless, there WILL be a 5SF tomorrow (barring anything that would prevent me from doing it), so I will see you back here tomorrow for that, okay?!

Stay tuned, as the countdown WILL continue, and it will feature some amazing music; my favorites of 2009! Happy new year everyone, and see you again very soon!

That being said, I appreciate your patience (if you are still reading) in waiting for my top 31 CDs of 2009 blogstravaganza. I promise it’s coming, and I am almost ready to unleash lots of music goodness on you; I am just putting the final touches on the order of the list. Stay tuned! Sorry for all of the run around; things have been crazy in my life!

The year end countdown of my favorite albums of 2009 is on its way; I just have to get in gear to take on this blogging extravaganza. I am finishing up my classes this week (thank goodness), and I hope to get going shortly.

This year, I am going to do something a bit different, however. I am going to group albums together, and do one post about 5 at a time; with the exception of the top ten. Each of those kids will get their own post. Now, I will probably run into the new year with these, so don’t get your knickers in a twist if you don’t know my number one album when the clock strikes twelve on new year’s eve. I am also toying with doing a “best songs/singles of 2009″ post as well, but it’d probably be best to wait and see how that one materializes.

With that being said, I look forward to doing the countdown again this year, because there have been some AMAZING albums out this year. As always, I certainly didn’t hear all of them, but I did manage to hear a bunch; and out of that bunch, I can pretty clearly identify my favorite 31. I hope you enjoy the countdown as much as I do… see you soon!

Apparently, some people in another country, specifically the sites listed at the bottom of this post, think that it’s okay to just steal bandwidth. Well, unfortunately, since they have been stealing from me, and specifically from the mp3s that I used to do the 5SF, you guys are going to suffer; I am not going to offer audio anymore until I figure out a way to do it without leaving the back door open for these motherfuckers.

I didn’t know it, but the application that I use(d) for embedding audio gives you the URL of the file if you do a view source, a fact that I was unaware of until today. I don’t know how I missed that before, but apparently, I did. I don’t know a everything about permissions, but in order to use the plug in, you need to enable execute; which allows you to just steal the bandwidth if you know the file’s URL (which again, the plug in stupidly provides). Blocking the access to the folder is not enough it seems, and as such, drastic action had to be taken.

So what does this all mean for you? I’m extremely pissed off, and very sad to say that it potentially means the end of the 5SF. If I can’t find a way to block the use of my files elsewhere, while still making them available here, I won’t be able to post audio anymore; and what’s the point of doing a post about music if I can’t make it available for you to listen to? I don’t see youtube as a viable option, especially since I stopped using it early on in the 5SF because of the stupid rules about embedding certain videos and not others.

I really don’t want to stop doing the 5SF, so please, if you have ANY way that I can post the audio without having assholes steal my bandwidth, step up to the mic; the fate of the 5SF seemingly rests with you. The plug in that I was using was the pixelout audio player plug in, and as of writing this post, I haven’t been able to spot a way that I could hide the URL of the file; which would obviously be necessary to continue using it in the future. Again, any and all help would be most appreciated.

Here are the sites that were stealing my bandwidth: Fuck you, assholes!
http://blog.rayli.com.cn
http://img.kaixin001.com.cn
http://blog.qooza.hk/keng029
http://220.181.38.82/

YOU APPARTENTLY DON’T HAVE THE SLIGHTEST BRAIN CELL ABOUT US(CHRISTIANS). CONTRARY WHAT YOU HAVE STUPIDLY SAID ABOUT US; WE DO BELIEVE THAT GOD;NOT SOME IDIOT CALLED ALLAH; MADE EVERYTHING ON THE MISERABLE PLACE WE CALL EARTH. BETTER READ UP ON YOUR FACTS BEFORE YOU GO MAKING AN IDIOT OF YOURSELF AGAIN AS YOU SEEM TO MAKE WELL KNOWN!!

Appartently, Glen doesn’t like my views or opinions. Well, that’s okay, Glen, as fortunately, we are all entitled to our own opinions. You should know, however, that Allah actually means God. Finally, I don’t really recall saying anything for or against either, so you see, there really is no need to shout. Thanks for you comment, though.

So, from now on, I plan on integrating reviews, links, and other fun content alongside my “regular” posts (which at this point, refers mostly to the 5SF). I hope that this will make my website more exciting, and allow me to bring more for you, my awesome readers, to enjoy.