OK ... those two changes only took minutes, just an annoyance that was in the way of me doing anything useful.

One of the bigger issues for why this was never worked on was my laptop died, and I replaced it with a chromebook, which didnt really have the ability to upload to google's webapp system... without installing linux and dealing with the vagaries of that process. Im still concerned that my crouton linux setup will not be ... as fully functional as Id like, and since I want to store data locally and then upload it ... basically, I do not want to run a robot to gather data, I want it to be user curated, and then be the first / primary user for the time being... eventually letting other people join and help curate... but the question is what is the best way to gather the data, ... and the answer is not manual.

The basic idea I have at this point is a chrome widget to collect data on specific sites, with the option to add certain sites to it, and have an automated parsing tool look at the info on the site and put it into a useful format that will be aggregated into the site such that every time... say I look at upcoming concerts musicpatrons sees what I am looking at and shares it, ... not the creepy spotify->facebook see what I am doing share it but integrates the information I am seeing such that a more complete picture is developed on music patrons... so I guess thats the place to start, concert and information about bands.

I really want to start with a method of tabulating my own listening habits to get a better picture of how I should be directing my funds to be a more appropriate patron. But this info is more of an issue because it is user specific and across platforms, so, if Im writing an app for myself to use it will be youtube and music.google.com (play.google.com/music [whatever]) centric, and a way of tabulating those views so I get a picture of my own usage, but for somebody else it may be any number of other services, so ... on the one hand ... I should use all these services and try and see what ability there is for exporting user data so I can write a tool a user could use to examine their information by themselves, ... but ... as I said, I need to start somewhere.

Right now, that place is looking into writing a chrome extension to parse information out of pages I visit and see if I can start drawing my own musical picture.

I do not make this a high enough priority.

It is unfortunate. The job that pays my bills happens to get in the way of having enough energy to really want to get into things at the end of the day. Taking the Memorial day off today as an opportunity to do things that I should have done ages ago, namely ... since I am using google app engine for the hosting of the site at this point I am migrating away from the deprecated settings I used a year ago to get the very basic frontpage setup.

namely:
python2.5 ->2.7
and
master/slave ->high replication datastore ...

these shouldnt mean anything to anybody, and basically could have been done automatically as my page doesnt really have features at this point. Ideally, I want to add features, but I feel mildly caught in the wild stallions trap ... need A for B and B for A. The 'hacker' approach is just to start doing things and see what happens, ... since this isnt a high priority for me, how can I do that ... obviously writing this blag isnt the best approach, but organizing my thoughts should be beneficial on some level right? 'A little less conversation a little more action' ....