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 [...]
American Idol: top 3 show, my thoughts
Last night I watched the American Idol top three show from Tuesday. I won’t spoil the results for you, but I don’t think that there was ever any question, really, of what would happen in the results show. And I’m disgusted. I don’t understand the show this year, honestly. I get that the show picks [...]
Two new songs: Impression and Aurora!
New music at last! What’s even better, these pieces are way, way better than the others in the current release cycle, to the point where they’re likely to make the other pieces just go away. The first is “Aurora,” an instrumental. It was interesting to record; this is actually the third version recorded. The first [...]
Screencasts. Me. Bad combination.
I’ve been doing some screencasts lately, and it’s … annoying for me. I think I’m finally getting the actual physical production elements down – where to place the mic, the EQ to use, where to speak, and the reverb to be applied. The problem is that all of those things are makeup on a pig. [...]
My Son and Auditory Feedback
My oldest son is a great kid. He’s got Asperger’s Syndrome to a degree (well, okay, Asperger’s is ALL degrees, but he’s definitely on the spectrum without being extreme.) and some of the effects are… interesting. For one thing, he loves rules. Give him a rule that makes sense to him, and it will upset [...]
Crystal Bowersox doing “People Get Ready” tonight?
I just read a rumor that Crystal Bowersox might be doing “People Get Ready” tonight. Oh goodness me oh my howling wolf at the tomatoes in the field… I HOPE SO. If so, this has the potential to be the performance that blows the lid off of every other American Idol performance, including Crystal’s own [...]
New Article: “Considering Datastores.”
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces, Java, general on 19 April, 2010
I just published “Considering Datastores” in the “articles” section of my blog, a piece discussing various data storage mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses compared to each other.
American Idol, Elvis week
So, yeah, I watch American Idol. Get over it. Someone needs to, if I won’t. Anyway, so Elvis week. Two eliminations; I think one is clear, the other one comes down to one of two people. Crystal was marvelous tonight as usual. Rock solid, on the groove. I wish she’d move around a little more [...]
GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released Wednesday!
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces, Java, general on 13 April, 2010
This Wednesday, GigaSpaces is releasing XAP 7.1 GA. XAP stands for “eXtreme Application Platform,” and we included a lot of functionality based around earning that kind of name. Well, more than we already did – we’ve always been leaders in scalability. Probably the most visible aspects of the new release are the technology previews, around [...]