Trevor Bramble

Programmer. Swell guy.

The Protomen – Act II – The Father Of Death

Sep 112009

The Protomen

Greets, all. Tech guy Trevor here again. That’s right, I’ll post here anytime AIV’s back is turned!

You may recall a post I made here about The Protomen a few months ago. It was just prior to AIV and I heading to Nerdapalooza and sampling its nerdy, nerdy fruits. Well it turns out The Protomen make a great live experience …in my opinion, but AIV had complaints about the sound. No doubt, the acoustics of the little conference hall and ongoing mixing problems at the event contributed to lessen the sound quality, but the band rocked on despite that.

Anyway, The Protomen have just released their much-anticipated follow-up to the self-titled concept album with a prequel album called “Act II – The Father Of Death” and I duly reviewed it on NineBullets.net sister-site, NerdLust.net. Click here to check out the new release!

While The AutopsyIV is Away…

Aug 042009

AIV is on the road today, so for your daily 9b fix, how about listening to this month’s podcast, gentle readers?

I knew you would. You’re the best, no matter what he says.

The Protomen

Jul 022009

Greets, all. This is 9b techie Trevor, filling in for AIV while he’s indisposed.

The Protomen

AIV and I are headed to Orlando’s Nerdapalooza (blog) festival in just over a week, and by chance, there may actually be someone on the heavily Nerdcore-oriented list that you may enjoy. I know I’ve had a hard time not listening to them since first checking them out.

I’ll let Wikipedia tell it:

The Protomen is an American rock band best known for composing an original rock opera based on the popular video game, Mega Man. Because of the group’s insistence on wearing costumes and using code-names, even when being interviewed, The Protomen remain a mysterious entity within the video game music scene. Their costumes and general stage presence has been compared to that of Daft Punk. Despite often being classified as a niche, the Protomen have achieved a cult following thanks, in part, to frequent mentions in popular video game web sites as well as a dedicated fan-base.

Yeah. I know. “It’s based on a video game?” They’ve taken some themes from the game, undeniably, but what they’ve created goes way beyond it. Check out these tracks to see what I mean.

Unrest in the House of Light
Father of Death
No Easy Way Out

You can find more about The Protomen on their MySpace page, and their official website (where you can buy their CDs, if you are so inclined.)

Keeping up With Nine Bullets

Mar 122009

Hey, folks. Friendly neighborhood tech guy Trevor here. AIV said there’d be no post today, but we’ve been meaning to drop a little one in to cover this subject for awhile now and I figure I might as well try to fill the hole while he’s out for the day.

If the 9b readership holds to the same numbers as the general population, most of you probably don’t know what a “feed” is, as in “an RSS feed” or “an Atom feed”. Well, one of my favorite blogs, Unclutterer, put up a great post this week covering the basics on such things and you might want to give it a read.

I keep up with ninebullets.net by following the two main feeds:

The comments feed is especially useful because no matter which post someone comments on, the comment shows up in the feed. This means I don’t have to go look at a post all the time to see if it’s gathering comments. I also don’t have to visit the WordPress admin panel to see where the comments have appeared. The information comes to me, and I check them out whenever I feel like it.

If you’re new to reading feeds, or you’re otherwise looking for a good reader, I highly recommend Google Reader. It’s not perfect (I’m dying to write my own) but it’s as good as it gets right now.

If there’s sufficient interest, we may add email subscription as well.

Who out there is already using the feeds to keep up with 9b? What are you using to read the feed?

The newest of new

Feb 162008

We just sacrificed a cold keg to bring you the sparkling new ninebullets.net.

We hope you find it as tasty and filling as we have.

*update*
We’re aware of the layout problem with Internet Explorer 6. In the meantime, I strongly suggest replacing IE6 with (if you must) IE7, or better yet, Firefox. -Trevor

*update2*
Fixed! You should still switch to Firefox.

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