I am the person who wrote this blog entry!
I was looking at my poor, ragged copy of Slaughterhouse Five last night, and noted the author’s tag: “Kurt Vonnegut, author of Jailhouse!” For some reason, it hit me: I’ve never read Jailhouse. I’d like to, I guess, if I have time and can find it. But it just struck me as odd, because Slaughterhouse [...]
Waking up
Man, I was so happy when I realized that I had only DREAMED that I had woken up, until I realized that I’d ACTUALLY woken up in order to realize it.
Grrrr, spring-security!
Posted by dreamreal in Programming on 14 July, 2010
I just wasted a day trying to get Spring Security 3.0 to work – at all. Followed the documentation meticulously, only to endlessly have Spring tell me that I didn’t have a namespace handler for the security namespace. Turns out it was a simple fix. I’d simply not included all three pieces of Spring Security. [...]
Flood of new music!
I’d like to offer you three new songs: “Sleep,” “Impression, Part II“, and “Happier With You.” These make up more of the “Sleep” release. Sleep, from April 2010, is a song I put together as a bit of a scherzo – “hmm, let’s see what I can do with these chord shapes” – and I [...]
On the Song That Is Too Fast To Play-eth
Okay, this thing is going to be a frickin’ barn-burner. As in, barns literally burning down. (It’s an anti-barn protest song.) Well… maybe. But man, oh man – just finished laying down the electric guitar tracks, and by the end of them – both of them – I’m doing my whole in-the-moment thing, where I [...]
Ow.
I write this with numb fingers, because they’re bleeding for the first time from playing guitar in freakin’ years. I usually slow songs down a little to record them, because in my head they’re too fast anyway, but today: nope! Full speed ahead! And I forgot that on bass, the song I was recording is [...]
Bertrand’s right: web writers are wrong.
Posted by dreamreal in Programming, Web on 15 June, 2010
In “Can I haz web?,” Bertrand Delacrétaz wrote: How many people today still think information is only valid or “serious” when represented on an A4 piece of paper? Well, except it’s letter, not A4… but the point is dead on. People aren’t thinking of the web very well. I’d echo Bertrand’s point, and amplify. Here’s [...]
New Rush songs!
Rush has two new singles available through iTunes and Amazon: Caravan and BU2B. They’re really good – they’ve gotten a little more comfortable with the producer they worked with for their previous album, and they’re actually a little more adventurous now. I have a feeling that Nick Raskulinecz – the producer – was pushing them [...]
Microsoft ROCKS.
My company just went to Microsoft Online for our email services, which means we are supposed to sign on through their service for Outlook, etc. What’s funny is that once I did that, email was horribly slow; I didn’t have to get on our VPN any more, but considering I have to get on the [...]