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Famous Songs That Were Almost Abandoned

June 25th, 2025 · No Comments

Some of the most famous rock tracks, were a step away from seating in the drawer forever. I’m not in love 10cc‘s iconic song “I’m not in love”, started as a bossa nova-style song, with a traditional rhythm section, but the band felt something is missing, and the group decided to scrap it. Days later, […]

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Blogs today are a visitor’s nightmare

June 23rd, 2025 · No Comments

It’s pretty amazing to think that the Internet, which is practically a basic daily commodity for most of us, is only about 35 years old. As I’m 55 years old when writing this post, I still remember when blogs had funny backgrounds, a visitor counter at the bottom, and little animations. Blogs were personal online […]

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Taming The Volume Beast: Using Attenuation With The Hot Rod Deluxe (volume fix)

June 23rd, 2025 · No Comments

The Fender Hotrod Deluxe is a fine tube amplifier, but is very loud for home use with a volume potentiometer that is either very low or very high, in the 1-3 range, here is a nice and easy way to tame the beast and lower its volume so you can play at home. The fix […]

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Countries I’ve Visitied

June 22nd, 2025 · No Comments

I love going to new places and new countries. From past experience, I rather rent a car and drive to the country side, for me, that’s when the fun begins. I’m not that hard to satisfy, just give me lots of nature and I’m happy. Here are the countries I’ve visited, in chronical order. Some […]

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Reliable But Not Unbreakable. Suzuki DR650, A Three Year Long Term Review.

June 10th, 2025 · No Comments

I’ll start at the end – With a few modifications, is the DR650 a good offroad/adventure bike? Absolutely yes. I’ve had the DR650 2016 for almost 3 years now, I bought it exclusively for offroad use. It has about 45,000 km on it. The DR has its advantages and drawbacks, as some motorcycles do, these […]

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