photo credit: justinsomnia So what caused me to be up till 2 in the morning? Struggling with video encoding, conversion and HTML5 fickleness. Essentially, this is not a process for mere mortals. While video in general is complicated enough, most will and should rely on a site like youtube to share their videos (at least [...]
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So over the weekend I refreshed my desktop with both Windows 7 and the latest Kubuntu release. While I have been religiously upgrading the linux side of my dual boot system every 6 months with the [k]ubuntu release schedule, I was still running Windows XP which hadn’t been reinstalled in about 3 years (it was [...]
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Below are the three songs included in my old Roland JV-35. While the standard GM complement of samples sounds a bit dated, I always thought these songs were well done and did a good job of showing off the keyboard. Unfortunately the expansion board didn’t include more ROMs… the wide range of sounds on the [...]
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A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane My rating: 5 of 5 stars Diane Duane has done it again. An incredibly well crafted story in the universe she has crafted and evolved over nine fantastic books. For any fan of the series, this is a must read. Anyone new, I highly recommend starting from the [...]
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Tagged: diane duane, goodreads, review, wizard
Update: 2010-04-20 — Fixed some timing and EQ issues. Also programed some new drums. Still working on solo. Below is a rough cut of my rendition of devilishlypure‘s song Nerdfighterlike which was then done by Hank & Katherine Green here (of the vlogbrothers). It is fairly rough at the moment and missing the middle solo, [...]
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Tagged: ardour, hydrogen, music video, nerdfighterlike, vlogbrothers