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Long before blogs – a postscript

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Well, I posted the journal entries for my 10 day 1998 trip to Taiwan, and, not too surprisingly, they now reside at the very beginning of my blog database, and can only be seen by looking back at the archive for May 1998.

As far as I can tell, they don’t even show up in the RSS feeds.

In a way, it was like a re-release of a movie. I got to correct a few spelling and grammatical errors. I went back to the source photo negatives, scanned them and touched them up in photoshop.

On certain entries, I made some new commentary. There were certainly things I didn’t know and just plain got wrong. While I did not use this opportunity to re-write history, I did make some comments about how my perceptions have changed in the last 8 years.

Update:I guess the least I could do is provide a link to the first installment. …and that link is here.

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Long Before Blogs…

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Long before blogging software existing, people had things called diaries or journals. Back in 1998, I began keeping a journal of my overseas trips.

My my sincere apologies to my regular readers, I am going to be posting those old entries into this blog, appropriately backdated, and with some current annotations. My goal in this is to simply consolidate some of my earlier writing into one place for ease of locating, searching and backups.

I’m not sure exactly what this will do to RSS readers, etc.

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Trek Soundtracks

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Speaking of Star Trek soundtracks…

While I think all the new Star Trek series failed miserably on their soundtracks (dull, uninteresting and completely understated) the original series soundtrack was really first class.

While looking to see if the re-mastered Trek series soundtracks were available, I discovered that 2 of my favorite CDs are still available through Amazon. (One is actually in stock, the other can be ordered through their associates program.) These were two re-recordings by Fred Steiner and the Royal Philharmonic in 1990 and feature music originally composed for the following episodes:

  • V1 – Charlie X
  • V1 – The Corbomite Maneuver
  • V1 – Mudd’s Women
  • V1 – The Doomsday Machine
  • V2 – Mirror, Mirror
  • V2 – By Any Other Name
  • V2 – The Trouble with Tribbles
  • V2 – The Empath

Relatively few episodes of Trek had original music, in most cases it was re-used from earlier episodes. Many of the prominent musical themes from the entire series had their origins in these scores.

They’re definitely “old school”, though. No contemporary 60′s music, these are more like scores from pre-60′s movies.


“Star Trek: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Charlie X, The Carbomite Maneuver, Mudd’s Women, The Doomsday Machine)” (Fred Steiner)

Unfortunately, I cannot put an Amazon link to the second one since they don’t have it in stock, but you can see it online and purchase it though the associate program. The full title is: Star Trek, Volume Two: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Mirror Mirror, By Any Other Name, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Empath) or search for Fred Steiner.

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