Want some pro-bama songs to keep you going while waiting for returns?
An old favorite music blog ¿Revolución, No? has risen again to share some tunes.
My favorites:
Cocoa Tea – Barak Obama
my song got played on rinse fm!
I forgot to post this before.
My dubstep tune “worldwide” got played on DJ Distance’s new talent section of his Rinse FM show on 6 May 2008. Unfortunately, he credited me as dj number instead of dj mumbler, but I was excited anyway.
The podcast can be grabbed here:
http://rinsefm.blogspot.com/2008/05/distance-6th-may.html
Here’s the excerpt:
And here’s the tune without all the chat:
Problem with input focus on Safari
I had a javascript hiccup, and I think the solution may be helpful to others.
The basic setup is this:
Limited space means no room for labels in a login form. So instead we used a preset value in the input elements, like so:
Which looks like this:
The easy way to blank out the descriptive text is to use the onfocus event like so:
onfocus="this.value=''"
2007 Music Rewind
Ah, it’s that time of the year again. “Best of” list time. While 2007 has been a pretty active year for new releases, I found that I kept going back to the same albums — which were not necessarily the ones whose releases I anticipated the most.
By the way, a lot of the music I’ve enjoyed the most this year deploy obscene amounts of bass. If you don’t have a subwoofer, you hear only half of the music…
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Why I closed my Facebook account
The NY Times has published a column in its Bits Blog that summarizes the evolution of Facebook’s Beacon advertising program.
I think that it is more revealing than focusing on the backlash or petitions to actually examine the program itself, along with the supposed improvements made by Facebook along the way. The column does a good job at pointing out the small tweaks that seem to address raised concerns, while essentially presenting the same thing again, but with more labels.
It becomes the user’s responsibility to be ever watchful for Facebook’s unorthodox info harvesting. A better approach would have been a way to opt-in instead of having to constantly opt-out. There is currently no way to globally say “no thanks” and be done with it, either.
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Egypt photos
Off to Egypt!
image uploaded to latimes.com by Irvine resident
The hills around my office are on fire. Part of a huge firestorm in Southern California. The air is filled with smoke, and close to half a million people have been evacuated from their homes in surrounding areas, but life remains strangely familiar. The dusky sunlight gives an eerie cast to the day, but businesses are open here and people are out doing errands while ash snows down on their heads.
Amid all the confusion and chaos, I am still packing and preparing for a vacation to Egypt. My ordinary life has become surrounded by the remarkable and extraordinary, so the normal anticipation has been turned sideways. I am no longer escaping a normal life and returning to a normal life. The incredible things I’ll see as part of my travels will dovetail with the incredible things I am seeing on television and out my window.
I wonder how this will all fit together in my memories.
5-foot Nintendo controller
Possibly the coolest pointless project I’ve ever heard of…
This 83-pound, 5-foot long NES controller actually works. You can play games, but it takes the coordination of at least two people to manage it.
New digs
I just finished the most painless server transition I’ve ever experienced.
My hosting deal with godaddy was about to renew, so I looked around for another deal, and I ended up going with bluehost.com. Here’s the vitals:
- 300 Gigabyte Hosting Space
- Host Unlimited Domains
- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
- 3,000 GIGS of Transfer
- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
$7.95/month when you buy a year. $6.95 if you buy two years.
I used Transmit (www.panic.com) to synchronize all files from my old host to a local folder, and then just synchronized from the local folder to my new host!
Both hosts offer phpMyAdmin, so it was easy to export my data from one host and import to the other.
Done within a few hours.
Soundflower + mobile audio
Having recently upgraded to an Apple notebook (woohoo!), I am learning the ins and outs of being mobile as I setup my new machine for work and for play.
One thing that was annoying was having to unplug my audio interface when I wanted to take my computer anywhere away from my desk.
On Saturday, I was sick in bed with time to finally work on some music. But, being in bed, I did not have my audio interface connected.
Usually that means that I would need to reassign all audio outputs in my sequencer to the built-in outputs to work on music. And change them all back when I wanted to work at my desk.
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