If you have not heard the Mystic Moods Orchestra’s album, One Rainy Night…  I am so sorry…  I will pray for you… 

I don’t have any more of their albums, but if you have a recommendation, please send it along…

And how could anyone leave it?  The Longines Symponette Society is one of the phattest groups around.  Sure, they have their unmemorable albums (the campfire songs one could be like that, I can’t remember (if that tells you anything)) but when you get one of their super 10 album collections (i.e.: 20 star guitar, The American Composers Hall of Fame) there are bound to be some musac gems…

I found another Great Album at e-music… this one by two true jazz powerhouses – Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake – From the River to the Ocean.

One of the things I like best about it is that all the tracks really bridge the gap between progressive and straight ahead seamlessly so that the music never entirely feels like either. And I may have missed this in his previous albums because the instrumentation was different, but In this album you can really hear how he has been influenced by Sonny Rollins. I might be crazy but I never noticed before how much his tone has in common with Rollins. This album reminded me (partially, I’m sure, because of the guitar) of The Bridge.

Go to the e-music where there are samples of each track. If you don’t feel like getting a subscription, get it at amazon.

Last weekend I finally got inspired to sit down at vidbb’s code. (for some reason, I miss being involved with the non-profit world)

Anyway, for the first time in over 8 months I took a look at vidbb’s guts… It took me a little while to figure out why I had done some of it the way that I had… but I did. I got some more of the individual-video page’s form pulling the appropriate data from the db. Also attacked making that form AJAXified and was a little successful. On change, the select boxes contact the DB and 1) insert a new row into the edits table and 2) try to update the appropriate record of the person’s description table.

The first step worked except that the timestamp column isn’t updating. The problems there were 1) I was using MySQL query browser to edit the table and it wouldn’t allow the time_edited column to be not null… I guess I’ll have to brush the cobwebs off my SQL programming and edit the table properties with sql.

Problem 2) was that the query for the table update kept choking on the query. When I first developed vidbb, I was experimenting with various DB layers and settled on PHP ADODB. I don’t think I had ever run into any problems until this weekend for some reason it was adding an ‘LIMIT’ clause onto the insert (update?) query… at least I think that’s what it was choking on.

I also spent a lot of time taking the form out of the formatted string and made it just a regular mixed page (markup with php in it). I had been trying to keep the back-end logic and front-end markup completely separate but it turned out to be more of a hassle than I could justify.

Overall, I’m fairly pleased with what I did. It has been a while since I’ve worked on this… I just need to re-familiarize myself with it. There does seem to be a lot of kruft that I need to prune…