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December 25, 2006: Extensively modified two pages that were originally on www.mp3.com and added links to them under David Savage Music (CDs and About David). Revised the Songs excerpts page. Added a link to the page with photos of the July, 2001, Washington (DC) Area Artists Salon retreat in Harper's Ferry, WV. Visited GarageBand.com and set the properties of 129 of my songs hosted there. This took a lot of clicks over several hours. Added a link to my page on GarageBand.com with the 129 songs in streaming audio. December 23, 2006: Finally updated the site; last update was a year ago. I added material and links on the home page:
December 21, 2005: Welcome to the new website, almost the same as the old website for now. I changed my domain registrar and web hosting provider. Got lots more disk space for less money. I made a few minor changes on the home page today--first time in two years that I've updated the site. I added a link to my music slide show that used to be on www.mp3.com when I had a site there, and added a link to my Dad's second book. I hope to find some time to add more content over the coming months. Meanwhile, you can find out more about me musically at the website of a band, now pretty much defunct, that I played with for the past four years. I will be porting some of that content, and some content from my old website on www.mp3.com, to this website. December 3, 2003: David's page on MP3.com is no longer available. The page was the exclusive online display, listening, and distribution point for David's 13 CDs. CNet recently bought MP3.com, and the entire MP3.com website was taken down yesterday. CNet says that they may have a service for unsigned artists sometime next year similar to what MP3.com had. We will let you know what develops. However, putting the 13 CDs back online would involve a huge amount of uploading of audio files and artwork, and we still have only a dialup connection and a Pentium II, 266 MHz PC. So if you want to be able to listen to the CDs online again for free, go to the SavageHeart home page and make a contribution to help us buy a new faster PC and a DSL or Cable subscription. Meanwhile, if you want to purchase David's CDs or get more information about them, send email to David at the address at the bottom of the page. October 10, 2003: Listen to David's two new CDs: Back Home and Click Me at David's page on MP3.com. August 28, 2003: Listen to David's new CD Spirit Forever at David's page on MP3.com. The 15 track CD is part of a collection of David's "spiritual" songs. April 26, 2003: I deleted the "mailto:" from the Index and What's New pages in an attempt to reduce spam. Between two email accounts, I'm now getting about 90 spam emails every 24 hours. April 13, 2003: TellMe.com discontinued their free VoiceXML hosting service, so David's songs and poems are no longer available over the telephone. While this is disappointing, we cannnot afford to host them ourselves. If anyone knows of a free VoiceXML hosting service, please let us know. February 7, 2003: Listen to David's new CD Spirit Wing One at David's page on MP3.com. The 16 track CD is part of a collection of David's "spiritual" songs. January 16, 2003: Listen to David's new song Plasma 5 End to End at David's page on MP3.com. The song is the result of experiments with Cakewalk's Plasma loop-based music composition software. September 22, 2002: The original TellMe "Extension" number, 18283, for listening to David's songs over the phone has been reinstated. You can use either 18283 or 10801. August 21, 2002: David's new song Laura Amora, The Lovely is a folk song about a near-disastrous sailing experience. Listen to David's CDs and buy them exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. We fixed the VoiceXML file so you can listen to David's songs over the phone again. It's been nearly two years since that file was created, and the VoiceXML language has changed since then! We had to change the TellMe "Extension" number. The new number is 10801. October 10, 2001: David's new CD Songs of War is folk songs about war. Warning! The artwork and words are scary. Listen to David's CDs and buy them exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. Did we mention? New low prices for David's CDs. October 1, 2001: Is David's new song Click Me (Sex, Money, Power) rap or a parody of rap? Or is it both? You decide. April 2, 2001: We have removed the descriptions of David's CDs from the home page because they are all described on MP3.com when you follow the link there. David's CD Cosmic Mountain is an "ambient remix" of his CD Lost Mountain. David's CD Cosmic Venus is an "ambient remix" of his CD Showtime on Venus. Listen to David's CDs and buy them exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. February 21, 2001: On David's CD, Haiku-choo Chew, you'll hear David reading some of his haiku and other poetry, interspersed with sounds and music that you've never heard before! Listen to it and buy it exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. David's CD Absolute Silence is mentioned in the March/April issue (No. 34) of Adbusters magazine on page 15 at the bottom of the column "The M.E. (Mental Environment) Index." (The CD is mentioned in the print edition only, not on the website.) Adbusters' Senior Editor James MacKinnon concludes the item by writing, "As of mid-January, Savage had earned just 46 cents from MP3--but the Index always appreciates the sound between the notes." Thank you! David's CD Showtime on Venus is reviewed very favorably by Bill Binkelman of Wind and Wire. This is not a new review, we just forgot to mention it before. 44 more of David's poems were added to the telephone readings, for a total of 66. See the entry for February 3, below. February 3, 2001: Listen to 22 of David's poems and brief excerpts of 31 of his songs for free over any telephone! Call 1-800-555-TELL. After listening to a brief ad, Step 1: Say "Extensions" After another ad, Step 2: Say "1-8-2-8-3" Or, instead of Step 1 and Step 2, press 1-18283 on the telephone keypad. Note that if you use this method, there is an extra "1" A recorded voice will ask whether you want to listen to poems or songs. Say "poems" or "songs". The application is always listening to you. At any time you can switch from poems to songs by saying "poems" or "songs" and listen to another poem or song by saying its number. You can view a few new brief poems written by David on any Internet ready cell phone. Go to the Web address www.tagtag.com/poet. This site can only be accessed from a WAP-enabled (Internet ready) cell phone, not from a normal Web browser like Netscape, Internet Explorer, or AOL. January 27, 2001: David's CD, Lost My Head at Forest Pond, is mostly instrumental music in a variety of genres: rock groove, blues rock, alternative, experimental, and children's music. The two songs with vocals are "Jitterbugging Waterbugs" and "Waltzing Brown Bears." Be careful! The music of the animals that gather around, and on, Forest Pond can make you lose your head! Listen to it and buy it exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. November 10, 2000: David's CD, Lost Mountain, is three long jams, ranging from playful to ominous, using synthesized instruments. Listen to it and buy it exclusively at David's page on MP3.com. July 29, 2000: Now you can order t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads with David's clown photo from his store on Cafe Press. If you join Cafe Press and open your own store, please enter "DavidSavage" for the name of the store that referred you. Do you know? You can listen to the songs on David's CDs at David's page on MP3.com. June 26, 2000: David has created two more new CDs, Absolute Silence, and Rain & Crickets, Vol. 1. They are available only from David's page on MP3.com. Absolute Silence is the perfect gift for someone who has heard it all. It's a collector's item, for connoisseurs of the avant-garde, Dadaists, philosophers, students of metaphysics, lost souls, extremists. A great gag gift. Tired of all the noise? When it's your turn on the CD player, give your ears a rest. Demand Absolute Silence! Rain & Crickets, Vol. 1 is soothing, relaxing, calming, comforting. Recommended as a background for falling asleep or doing those chores indoors on a sunny day when you'd rather be outside. May 23, 2000: David's CD Showtime on Venus is now available exclusively from David's page on MP3.com. Showtime on Venus is 60 minutes of hypnotically compelling, esoteric, whimsical, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic instrumental music, created entirely with algorithmic composition software. May 21, 2000: Today I added a new section called Family. It will contain the creativity of other members of my family. So far this is only one page. It contains a link to buy my Dad's book of poetry and prose written by his mother, and a link to my brother's website on antiques and collectibles. I forgot to mention that the PlayStream hosting of the RealAudio files is working fine. March 3, 2000: The RealAudio file links on the sounds page now point to the files on RealServer G2, so they will actually stream, which means they will start playing almost immediately after you click on them. They're hosted at PlayStream, on a free evaluation account for the next two weeks. I think it will work out, and then I'll pay for an account. March 1, 2000: Oops! I just found out that the Web hosting company I'm using doesn't have RealServer, so the RealAudio "RA" links on my Sounds page, while they point to RealAudio files, do not load any faster than downloading the .wav files. I'm looking into putting the RealAudio files on a site that does have a RealServer G2. If anyone knows of a free or low cost solution, please let me know. February 24, 2000: So, what's new, you might ask. Quite a lot, I might answer. I finally got my own domain! On December 28 and 29, 1999, I registered the domains SavageHeart.com (which is where you are now) and SavageHeart.org (which is parked) with Registrars.com through the Web hosting company, Half Price Hosting (also doing business as Express Technologies), who hosts this site. It's really, really easy to get your own domain. More difficult for me was to find and settle on a web hosting provider that offers all of the features that I want: NT, IIS, FP 2000 server extensions, support for Active Server Pages and Visual InterDev, RealServer G2, enough disk space, ODBC and database support, and a good price. HPH met most of these requirements, so after about six months of dithering in indecision, I signed up with and through them. This website was formerly known as David Savage's Sense & Nonsense. I first created the site during February and March, 1996. The pages under the link Butterfly are actually the original site. I added the Branch One pages in April, 1997, the Meditations pages in January and May, 1998, and the Blue Rabbit pages in June, 1998. I began modifying the site again in January, 2000. For this latest revision, the only new page is this What's New page. However, I have improved several of the pages so that they load faster, tightened up the HTML using the HTML validation function in HomeSite 4.0, and added RealAudio versions of the .wav files on the Sounds page under the Butterfly section. I also created the Savage Heart animated logo, and improved the navigation links using webbots in Front Page 2000. It is now 9:17 p.m. EST on February 24, 2000. I am going to publish the entire website to SavageHeart.com for the first time. The hit counter reads 12060 hits since I first posted the site on March 19, 1996.
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