jazzsequence

  • rpm update

    21 days left of RPM (which, as you recall, is the make an album in the 28 days of february competition).  the goal is to complete a full album, which is defined as 10 songs OR 35 minutes.  here’s my vitals so far: so what does this mean? it means in terms of length, i’m…

  • i know it’s all in the name of technology, but…

    i’m all for google street view.  i laugh at the claims of invasion of privacy when people file lawsuits against google street view when they find themselves on google maps.  i am amused by humorous street view photos like the one with the guy in front of the camera or the one where they ran…

  • how windows 7 (inadvertently) helped me find a virus

    so the other day, i got a notification in my systray that msdt.exe was corrupt, and possibly i should do a chkdsk to repair the problem. after seeing this crop up several times, i decided to take the message’s advice.  i stopped paying attention at some point, when i realized the chkdsk was gonna take…

  • windows 7 beta review

    so, i’ve been running win 7 beta on my main machine for a little while now and thought i should share my thoughts, since, you know, that’s kind of the whole point of this beta thing… boot time bootup time is significantly faster than vista and xp.  i’m actually pretty surprised at how quickly it’s…

  • server intestinal implosion

    so the server is having issues. i’m getting a lot of slow loading pages and error 500s on the wordpress sites i’m running.  when i contacted 1and1 to report the issue, i got this fantabulous response: me: > Hi– > > I have multiple sites running on my shared hosting > package, and I noticed…

  • Puppy!!!

      i got off work last night and we drove from PC to Henefer which is another 30-45 minutes north of Park City to pick up our new pug puppy that i’ve been twittering about.  he’s a 9 week old fawn pug and so far loves chasing the cats and playing with us and the…

  • and the award for dumbest news of the week goes to…

    the state department, after a “reply-all” storm caused their servers to crash.  apparently, not only were people pissed at being included on the reply-all lists, and sent angry replies, but the problem was further compunded by more traffic caused by email recalls.   i’m left speechless.  read the post and scathing replies on /.

  • Hello Ziggy: WordPress “Hello Dolly” Replacement

    hello ziggy is a branch of matt mullenweg‘s original hello dolly plugin that comes as part of every wordpress installation.  i like the idea of “Hello Dolly”, but i didn’t really want the song, so i changed the lyrics to another song that summed up the “hope and enthusiasm of a generation” — except, not…

  • rpm 09

    so, it’s another year, and there’s another rpm challenge.  this is that nanowrimo-like competition for musicians to create a cd in the 28 days of february, front to back (so, including cover art), and is always the time of year when i say “maybe this year i’ll get something done,” and never finish.  the rules…

  • A Public Service Announcement to the Blogosphere…

    The Onion is satire.  SATIRE, people!  C’mon, people really thought this was real? Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard (Answer: yes.) wtf? I mean seriously, with all the headlines about how Steve Jobs wasn’t even at MacWorld Expo this year, let alone the fact that the MacWorld keynote is TODAY, not yesterday like the…