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Mel's Weekly Top 20

macpro | 30 July, 2006 12:01

For many years, off and on, I've been a "chart freak". What is a chart freak? It's someone who follows the music charts to see what is hot for a given week. I did this a lot when I was younger. Listened to all of the old radio countdown shows such as "American Top 40" with Casey Kasem as well as local programs such as the KKUA Top 20 countdown. We're talking 1970s and early 80s here.

Today I dabble in something called "personal charts" where people from all over the world list their personal favorites, get them published on the web and hopefully get the attention of personal chart compilation sites such as Top Hits Online and BeyondRadio.com. Anyway, I resumed my Weekly Top 20 chart after abandoning it in 1999.

So without anything else to write, here is my chart for the week of July 30. The chart is always posted to my Weekly Top 20 webpage and the chart is used to compile the weekly Top Hits Online chart. Check it out....

This Week	Song Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Crazy (3rd Week @ #1)	Gnarls Barkley	1
2	Diamonds	Los Lonely Boys	3
3	One	Mary J. Blige & U2	4
4	Don't Wait	Dashboard Confessional	5
5	Promiscuous (Radio Edit)	Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland	2
6	Wisemen	James Blunt	6
7	Painted By Numbers	The Sounds	8
8	Real Gone	Sheryl Crow	9
9	Easy	Barenaked Ladies	10
10	Snow ((Hey Oh))	Red Hot Chili Peppers	11
11	Hips Don't Lie	Shakira	7
12	Rock On	Def Leppard	12
13	Is It Any Wonder?	Keane	17
14	Hanging On	Cheyenne Kimball	15
15	Dani California	Red Hot Chili Peppers	13
16	Broken	Jack Johnson	16
17	Ever The Same	Rob Thomas	19
18	Single Me Out [Theme From "#1 Single"]	Lisa Loeb	20
19	California Blonde	Joe Sibol	--
20	Best of Both Worlds (Album Version)	Hannah Montana	--

So We Had an Earthquake Yesterday

macpro | 28 July, 2006 11:12

It is very rare for people in Honolulu to be jolted by an earthquake. Yesterday at around 10 in the morning, a very mild earthquake rolled through Honolulu. I felt it at my workplace but was not even sure that it was an earthquake. It was only a short time afterward when I checked with KSSK radio that I found out that an earthquake had been felt in Honolulu.

The quake was a news item for the day, but has since been eclipsed by other, more pressing matters. If you want to know more about yesterday's quake, check out these links:

What's Playing on my iTunes & iPod

macpro | 19 July, 2006 06:50

How many of you own an iPod and use iTunes? A service called Last FM keeps track of your music (you can turn it on or off) and compiles your selections on a free webpage they give to you after you sign up. The software is free and works with iTunes on the Mac, and I presume Windows too. Check it out: Last FM.

Here is my list of songs recently played:

iTunes/iPod Data compiled by LastFM.

A New Blog from an Old LavaNet User

macpro | 18 July, 2006 20:38

The main reason for me starting a blog here is to claim my username which is also my lava.net name. I been a lava.net subscriber since April 1995, so that makes it more than 10 years using the same ISP. I was on dialup for the longest of time before I switched over to DSL.

LavaNet has been a good service, though not without some problems, most of all which have been licked most of the times they cropped up. I am quite sure today's lava.net is not the same as the one I walked into a small office and met about 4 or 5 people who were happy to sign me up, especially since I was and still am a Macintosh user.

So now we have this lava.net blog service, and well it's kind of cool and perhaps when I find the time and hopefully a means, I can eventually customize the template.

If you don't know who I am, my name is Mel and I have been on the net ever since I signed up with lava.net. I've published the following websites, which are online elsewhere:

Check these out as they will lead you to other content that I have published online. By the way, if you click on the photo at the top of this post, you can visit my Flickr photo gallery.

I don't quite know if I will post here all of the time, but I'll certainly come back to see what's happening in the lava.net community.

Have a good day.

macprohawaii

Mel's Weekly Top 20

So We Had an Earthquake Yesterday

What's Playing on my iTunes & iPod

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