released December 3, 2017
Al Margolis (If, Bwana): French horn; Korg guitar synth; cover painting
"Looks like WTF will be a series. And i seriously mean WTF - no idea what
rabbit hole this set of pieces are starting down. The source material
for all of them are down and dirty studio improvisations recorded on a
Tascam DR-05 digital recorder. Much of it dealing with breathing,
detritus of broken or crappy instruments (and playing). Then either
edited and manipulated - or not."
Just noticing the fine lineup of made-up artist names on the "Rehegoo USA" label at eMusic. I guess my favorite is George Toward, but Ron Blad and Jean Sombre are pretty good too. Seemed like these ersatz jazz labels had been thinned out a while ago, but they are back...
Now, where would he put me??? Or, for that matter, almost anyone-else from here? If my eyesight is good enough, 30+ includes Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, so it would probably have to do for me.... Also I wouldn't mind being put into a 30+ category, better than 60+
If you live in Europe you will know what GDPR stands for, if you live elsewhere you won't have a clue. It is General Data Protection Regulation - basically European wide data privacy laws coming into operation in a few days. Everyday leads to many emails asking for your agreement to still be on their mailing list etc. In the last few days it has reached avalanche proportions. Thank goodness it is soon past the date when it applies
...and our freelance tech support guy who looks after the website and mailing list still hasn't started on designing an email to get to people. Doesn't it start on the 25th?
You know what? This board has EU members and stores contact email addresses. Does that mean we need to email everyone to see if they still want to be on it?
That had been my thought GP. But if all the information is stored in the USA it is probably OK. In any case I can't imagine anyone worrying about us. In any case we gave our explicit agreement when we signed up. I've just spent nearly an hour going through all the paperwork for the school where I am a governor - photography of children is one of many aspects!
I did a little reading around and have taken up the GDPR compliance question with @eythian - it may be that there are some communication steps we need to take. I will update on another thread.
My marginally abridged reply to @Germanprof 's email. Comments welcome.
I'm not convinced it's necessary [to email people or to be too concerned about GDPR]. From what I understand there are a couple of things that mean we don't have to care:
a) GDPR is focused on commercial activities, and not personal things. While there is a wide gulf between commercial and personal, the forum is definitely not commercial.
b) with some exceptions, we only keep data relating to the functioning of the site: usernames, email addresses, posts, etc. This is a legit reason under the GDPR to keep data.
The exceptions are that the forum keeps IP information longer than necessary (I think it's more or less indefinitely.) Both in access logs and in the database. The logs are easy to fix and I've been meaning to do this anyway. The database ones might just require a weekly job that deletes any IP info more than, say, 60 days old. I should also have the backups cleaned, as a month old database backup is useless anyway. It'll help shrink my long-term backup size which is also nice.
Indeed many, many thanks Eythian for all that you are doing, much appreciated. Although GDPR comes into effect tomorrow, I'm still getting emails about it!
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released December 3, 2017
Al Margolis (If, Bwana): French horn; Korg guitar synth; cover painting
- Harry Scary
- And how about Amida Sin ?
Bwah-hah, I bet he doesn't have an eMusers playlist though (Other than "30+")
And Radiohead. I doubt I will ever get my head around the idea that songs from the 90s can be "oldies"
but the titles of the individual tracks
are pretty interesting.
Can't upload a picture anymore
(upload is different), but here's
a link to the Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GVX3K6G/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp
The cover reminds me of
which would mean something to those of you who studied computer graphics at some point
F major - without a doubt
G minor, with a touch of Bb major . . .
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/dont-rest-on-your-laurels/560483/
I hear both; curious if that’s common among people who listen to a lot of music.
Happy to see that it's being implemented.
I'm not convinced it's necessary [to email people or to be too concerned about GDPR]. From what I understand there are a couple of things that mean we don't have to care:
a) GDPR is focused on commercial activities, and not personal things. While there is a wide gulf between commercial and personal, the forum is definitely not commercial.
b) with some exceptions, we only keep data relating to the functioning of the site: usernames, email addresses, posts, etc. This is a legit reason under the GDPR to keep data.
The exceptions are that the forum keeps IP information longer than necessary (I think it's more or less indefinitely.) Both in access logs and in the database. The logs are easy to fix and I've been meaning to do this anyway. The database ones might just require a weekly job that deletes any IP info more than, say, 60 days old. I should also have the backups cleaned, as a month old database backup is useless anyway. It'll help shrink my long-term backup size which is also nice.
Finally, we can't really email people as we don't have their consent to use their emails for that purpose; most of the emails you've been getting about it are probably not necessary or legal under the GDPR anyway. See https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/gdpr-emails-mostly-unnecessary-and-in-some-cases-illegal-say-experts
The forum also doesn't collect any information (e.g. analytics) that it doesn't need to function so we don't need a cookie consent screen either.
So, in essence, I think we're fine
This may become moot if xtrev can't get his domain provider to update the information anyway. Need to chase that up again, and set up a backup plan.