Here’s a nice tutorial on how to produce Digg-like editable comments.  SongMeanings?

I’ve spent the last few nights working on :gasp: SongMeanings.  It’s been feeling really good to do so, too.  These days, it’s hard for me to get into a coding rhythm.  With everything going on, my attention span, for coding, has been all of five minutes.  But for some reason during the other night, something just clicked, and I ran with it.

And now, reflecting back on the hours spent, it felt really good.  I miss it.  I’d still wouldn’t say it’s something I’d want to be doing full-time, but it’s something I could do, if need be.  These last few days and nights, though, I’ve been working code in my head and anticipating what I’d actually put on the screen.  This is a feeling and action that I haven’t had in months, even perhaps years.

My only concern now is falling out of that rhythm.  The interest is there, but the time is always an issue.  If there were just more hours in the day to accomplish things.  I’m going to try and push through it this week, though, and continue to bang out the issues and features that are needed.  I’ll sure be looking forward to a nice night out at the Melting Pot (love that place) next Saturday with Rebecca — she deserves it more than I do after putting up with my antics while I’m coding away (or when I talk more on the phone with Brian than I do with her).

Our side ‘pet’ project, Sudsonbleeker, was started last night with a review of Coldplay’s new album, Viva la Vida.  Sudsonbleeker will deliver rich content to SongMeanings every Wednesday. 

Tonight, I received an e-mail from an individual, in China (or as she put it, “YES I’M FROM CHINA, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. WHATEVER YOU THINK OF THAT.” Yes, she wrote it all in caps.), stating her disapproval of a current advertisement running on SongMeanings through Google’s Adsense program.

The advertisement in dispute stated that Taiwan should be accepted in the United Nations. She claimed that she understood that advertisements are needed, on SongMeanings, to help it run. She went on to claim that a political advertisement has no reason to be published on a music-related website. Fine, I agree — especially on the internet, a neutral ground.

However, as she went on, she ended on a very sour note. She strictly claimed, “IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I ‘LL TELL ALL MY FRIENDS AND POST ON THE INTERNET TO BOYCOTT YOUR WEBSITE. I MEAN IT.” Again, in all caps.

Now, let me get this straight. You’ll boycott SongMeanings if we publish something pro-Taiwan. Fine, you have every right to boycott anything your little heart desires. Yet, your “PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA” won’t let a rightfully sovereign nation (Taiwan) have their own freedom, and not be attached as a so-called ‘territory’ of China? Just like you want SongMeanings to be politics-free, the people of Taiwan want to be free of China.

Something just doesn’t sit well with me over her e-mail.

America surely has it’s many faults, there’s no doubt about it. Iraq does want to be free, and I do have confidence in my government that it will be turned over, entirely, to the Iraqi people eventually. On the contrary, China has no plans to let Taiwan have it’s freedom, and it has often made large threats that it will go to war to keep Taiwan as one of it’s ‘territories.’

But her e-mail just proves that the world will always have it’s doubts about China and it’s emergence as a super power.

Quite possibly, I’m reading too much into e-mail. Part of me wants to take the advertisement down, since we do take down advertisements when they tend to be of the more sexual of nature. However, part of me doesn’t want to take it down, because of her stating she’d “BOYCOTT MY WEBSITE” and “SHE MEANS IT.”

In the end, I will have the advertisement be removed, because she is right — politics shouldn’t be involved in a website like SongMeanings. Until then, I’ll just bitch about her on my personal site and proudly proclaim that TAIWAN SHOULD BE A SOVEREIGN NATION.

She just didn’t have to be such an asshole about the advertisement.