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Top 10 Posts of 2025

Happy new year! Here are my most view posts of 2025:1

Stairway to Heaven Backwards Full Lyrics: 8,297
Secret Hitler – Print and Play: 6,210
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 4,120
Home page / Archives: 2,960
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 891
Apple Photos – How to view all unnamed faces – Solved: 887
About Me: 399
Backmasking Info: 395
Frequently Asked Questions: 231
Tab Cola Commercial: 225

  1. Previous year-end statistics for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2010.[↩]
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Top 10 Posts of 2024

Here’s a quick table of my most view posts in 20241

Stairway to Heaven Backwards Full Lyrics: 8,139
Secret Hitler – Print and Play: 5,616
Home page / Archives: 4,147
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 1,833
Laughing Wild — by Christopher Durang: 578
The Face of Dr. Claw Revealed!: 427
Tab Cola Commercial: 269
Edmonton Spelling Test on Google Forms: 266
Backmasking Info: 247
More Backmasking Songs: 234

  1. Previous year-end stats for 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020[↩]
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Insert Title Here

I’ve been reading Dave Winer’s Scripting.com blog lately and it’s made me jealous of his blogging software. Because he was blogging before he invented RSS he’s never felt the compulsion to title each of his posts. It’s a lot more like tweeting than blogging when everything doesn’t have to fall neatly under a title.

I guess WordPress will technically let me post without a title, but it’s not the same as his stream of consciousness posts that build from the start of the day to the end, as well, he’s got a separate link-blog stream which I also think is pretty nifty.

That’s it, that’s just what’s been bothering me and every time I have gone to create a new post lately I keep thinking about how I wish I didn’t have to be so formal. Maybe getting it out there will clear my writer’s block.

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20 Years

Today marks 20 years since writing my first blog post. That first post wasn’t much — my brother and I shared a blogger blog and I think we were basically our own audience at that time. I’ve since changed over to this solo WordPress blog and I’ve even added some pre-dated posts with content from before this blog existed but either way today marks 20 years since this whole endeavour started.

And on this 20th anniversary of blog posts, as many other blogs came and went, I can look back and say I’m glad I kept at it.

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…And We’re Back

After almost two weeks of downtime the website is back up. Apparently my host was hit with some kind of major hacking attack and lost a lot of webpages. Luckily, they were eventually able to restore everything (except for lost advertising revenue).

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Stairway to Heaven Backwards in HTML 5

I’m in the process of updating my backmasking page into HTML 5. That means I’m (trying to) use your browser’s built in audio playing abilities using the <audio> tag.

So far I’ve only updated the Stairway to Heaven clip, but I plan to go through them all.
Update: I’ve finished creating HTML 5 versions for each song. See the bottom of this post for individual links.

Unfortunately not all modern browsers support the proposed specifications (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer). I’ve tried to fix this by using an embedded Flash audio player for those that have out of date or non-future proof browsers. The irony of switching out of Flash and still being forced to keep Flash is not lost on me.

Please do me a favour by letting me know in the comments if the audio doesn’t work on the browser you’re using. It now works on the iPhone!

Here are the individual links (for permalink / bookmarking purposes):