{"id":50,"date":"2010-08-19T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2010\/08\/19\/blacklisting\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:23:15","slug":"blacklisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2010\/08\/19\/blacklisting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacklisting"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_40\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-50-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/blacklistingElectric.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/blacklistingElectric.mp3\">http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/blacklistingElectric.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/blacklistingElectric.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/?powerpress_pinw=50-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/blacklistingElectric.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"blacklistingElectric.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>I wrote this song while driving home from work one evening.\u00a0 To understand the song, you have to understand that &#8220;blacklisting&#8221; refers to the way most traditional Antivirus programs work &#8211; they have a list of &#8220;bad&#8221; software that isn&#8217;t allowed to run on your computer.\u00a0 My company, <a href=\"http:\/\/coretrace.com\/\">CoreTrace<\/a>, has a product called &#8220;Bouncer&#8221;, which takes the opposite approach, called (surprise, surprise) &#8220;whitelisting&#8221;.\u00a0 Whitelisting is technology that says &#8220;if you aren&#8217;t on my list of authorized software, you can&#8217;t run&#8221;.\u00a0 Learn more about it at our web site.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this song with the help of my talented brother-in-law, Dave.\u00a0 Dave plays guitars and bass.\u00a0 Note, as you listen, the benefits of having a good musician do most of the work for you.\u00a0 I do the keyboards, vocals, and drum programming.\u00a0 &#8220;Drum programming&#8221;, I call it.\u00a0 Really it&#8217;s just &#8220;pick a drum track and drag it into the right place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A fine video of the song can be found here <span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; 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