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In case you're having a rough Monday….

This will improve your day. Metric – Gold Guns Girls. Have an awesome week!!  

July 31, 2011 | Music | No comments

Irish Melodic Metal to kick your Friday's ass

When I’m coding on 4 hours sleep I stream very heavy metal to stay focused. ChroniX GRIT on iTunes is usually my staple. I just heard a new band out of Dublin, Ireland called Shattered Skies and they absolutely kick ass! They’ve released their Reanimation EP free on SoundCloud and BandCamp. This is the final track […]

July 29, 2011 | Music | No comments

The Today Show: Journey performs Don't Stop Believing this morning (Video)

Today Show: With Arnel Pineda’s new haircut, Journey performed Don’t Stop Believing at the Rockerfeller Plaza this morning on The Today Show. Apparently it’s famous again thanks to Glee and the Sporanos. Check out the guy at 3:00 in the video. He’s just itching to rip that suit off.

July 29, 2011 | Music | No comments

7 Songs

Alan Steele just tagged me to write 7 songs I like and then tag 7 people I know to do the same – kind of a blog chain letter. I don’t actually know 7 bloggers – and yes, I don’t get out much at all – in fact I’m pretty much an uber nerd who […]

June 10, 2008 | Music, Startups | 1 comment

Sergio and Muse

My good friend Sergio who is an extremely accomplished musician and who morphed himself from a spectacular bassist to spectacular drummer and can put most lead guiarists to shame once told me that Muse is the best rock band that has ever existed. Personally I don’t have the balls or the knowledge to make far […]

March 14, 2008 | Music | No comments

Otis Taylor – Blues God

I watched Shooter last night. Besides a few badly done slow-motion-macho-manly-walking scenes, it’s a pretty good flick. The titles at the end had this awesome blues song that I had to Google. It’s called ‘Nasty Letter’ by Otis Taylor. The man has an interesting history. He left music in the 70’s to become an antique […]

August 26, 2007 | Music | No comments

Hard Rock – music for MTB

Andy Sack doing 51 pushups inspired me to haul my MTB out of the closet and start cycling hills. If you’re into hard rock and need something to get your adrenal gland pumping, here’s my list: Godsmack – Running Blind The Exies Army of Anyone – Goodbye Shinedown – simple man Trivium – The Rising […]

July 19, 2007 | Music | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.