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Just checked my adsense account… Note that I started it mostly on a whim… :
(yes, that’s a lot of money when you consider I never really expected to earn any…)
Goddamn, I use a lot of ellipses…!
OH, and notice now the ads are finally learning to be relevant!
Here are some interesting links/news-bits I noticed while checking the recent (month’s) headlines from the NYT and the Washington Post…
Oh, and I will eventually be upgrading to WordPress 2 (2.1), but I think I’ll probably do a reformat and reinstall OSX Tiger and Ubuntu linux (dual-boot!!!) first. Right now my 60 gig internal harddrive has a 20 gig OSX partition, two useless 900 meg partitions that are mac formatted but just sit around useless on my desktop (originally was going to be mapped as my /home directory under linux, or even osx… or something) and then a 10 or so gig Ext2 (linux) partition that has been lost into the abyss of partition-land and some random remaining unformatted free space (that disk utility won’t let me format… ugh… not willing to pay for expensive dynamic repartitioning software, and my conscience has been acting up again so no pirating!).
AAAND… this blog managed to eat up almost ALL of my monthly bandwidth during January (this site is amazingly hosted for free at http://www.buildtolearn.net the best free web host, NO ADS no BULLSHIT! you just have to participate in the community-forums!) So since time doesn’t allow me to participate sufficiently in the forums to earn a bandwidth upgrade, I need to start looking for a paid webhost! I’ve searched in the past but I always end up completely overwhelmed by the myriad options… but i’d love any suggestions…!
Anyways, onto the links…
p.s. still slightly unsure about using this textpad markup… worried about switching away from it and losing all my old links… but will stick with it for now out of convenience… shouldn’t make any difference to you anyways!!
- “U.S. to Shift Envoys to China, India”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901963.html?nav=rss_print/asection
- “Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902418.html?nav=rss_print/asection
Intelligence ‘Misused’ to Justify War, He Says - “Finding Photos in Mac OSX Tiger”:http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/findphoto.html I’ve never really noticed apple news before… but its pretty neat!
- “Different By Design”:http://www.apple.com/pro/design/chroniclebooks/ An article about publisher Chronicle Books and their unusual design approach (graphic design, behind the scenes!)
- “A Publishing Workflow Pushes the Envelope”:http://www.apple.com/pro/design/atlantajournal/ An article about how the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (newspaper) works!!! I’ve wondered about this for so long!! And they use MACS! (read this!)
- “Color”:http://www.apple.com/pro/color/ All about Color from Apple… in fact just goto apple.com/pro for some great news and links
hope these were useful…!
Just ordered a bunch of stuff from Sweetwater, so exciting! For use with my new keyboard of course…
Edirol UM-1EX 39.97
Hosa YPP136 4.25
Hosa GPM-103 1.90
Hosa GPR-101 2.40
First item is a USB MIDI interface, the other three are various connectors and adapters for hooking up the audio jacks of the keyboard (1/4″ TS x2) to my computer’s Line In (1/8″ Stereo TRS, Powerbook G4). And a few adapters for 1/4″ TS to RCA just in case. Oh, and I threw in a 1/8″ TRS (F) to 1/4″ TRS (M) adapter just in case I loose the one I have, it seemed cheap….
Anyways, here are a bunch of more fantasy things I’d love to have from this wonderful store, posted here because their website doesn’t have a permanent wishlist — it forgets everything!
(Don’t buy me any of this without asking first…)
Also, a few words on the software… note that 99% of this I either have already downloaded, or could download if I wanted in pirated form– but I still will purchase when/if I am ever inclined to really use it (ie. not just use it to screw around). I rationalize this by saying that were such copies not available, I still wouldn’t be shelling out the big bucks just to play with the stuff, I’d just be without the software entirely — and the chances of me buying it when/if I had the disposable income would then be much less… I digress.
“Digidesign M-Box 2″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/MBox2/
It’s rather amusing, since I really don’t have anything worth recording but I still want the gear 
“Presonus FireBox”:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/FireBox/ Firewire Audio Interface
Software
“Apple Logic Pro”:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/LogicPro/
“Ableton Live 5″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/LiveEdu/ (Educational Version)
“Steinberg Nuendo 3″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/NuendoEdu/ (Educational Hybrid)
“Propellerheads Reason 3″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ReasonSoft/
Virtual Instruments:
“East West Quantum Leap RA”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/QLRA/ 14 Gigabyte Virtual Instrument Covering Ethnic Sounds from Six Areas of the World
“Korg Legacy Collection - Digital Edition”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KLCDE/
“Native Instruments Komplete Care 2006″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KompleteCare06/ Not sure exactly the nature of this one, but it sounds cool 
“Native Instruments Komplete 3″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Komplete3/
“Native Instruments Komplete Sound Bundle”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KompleteSound/ Sounds for Komplete
“Steinberg Virtual Instruments Collection”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VIColl/
“Arturia Vintage Collection”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VintageCollA/ Classic Soft-Synth Bundle Including Arturia’s Modular V, CS-80V, minimoog V, and Arp 2600V
“Native Instruments NI Essentials”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NIEssentials/ Virtual Instrument Bundle with BATTERY, PRO-53, KOMPAKT, and ABSYNTH - Mac/PC
“Native Instruments REAKTOR 5″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Reaktor/ Modular Software Synth/Sampler/FX Studio - Mac/PC (Standalone and Plug-In)
“Zero-G Pro Pack for GarageBand”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProPackGB/ Massive Collection of 11,000+ Drum, Instrument, Vocal and Effects Loops in Apple Loop and AIFF Formats Now this one I’d actually buy, since GarageBand is so userfriendly, I actually do use it. And loop-based music creation is so much fun!
“Bomb Factory SansAmp PSA-1″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BombPSA1/ Pro Tools Plug-In Amp and Cabinet Simulator - TDM Almost bought the hardware version of this tube-modeler back when I was hacking it at guitar…
“Arturia Moog Modular V 2.0″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ModularV/
“Steinberg The Grand”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TheGrand/ Virtual Concert Grand Piano VST Plug-In
“Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard EP-2″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LoungeLizard/ Electric Piano Modeling Software - Mac/PC (Standalone and Plug-In)
“Arturia minimoog V”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/minimoogV/ Virtual minimoog Software Synthesizer - Mac/PC I have tried this one out– they have a demo version that is quite fun!
p.s. Bravo to sweetwater for using intelligent URL’s and not some crazy PHP random ID crap like all those other big sites… may take a human to write out each slug, but it is worth it! I’m really starting to like these guys/girls.
I am now the proud owner of a Roland XP-30 Synthesizer Keyboard!
Ooooooh how sexyyy…. 
I’m so excited!
XP-30 Links
The XP-30 at “Sonic State”:http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/roland_xp-30.cfm
“A Site”:http://jv-patches.onlinehome.de/ with JV/XP Patches to download
Roland Expansion Board Demo Samples “here”:http://www.nathansheldon.com/xp-80/expansion-board-demos.html
“A Yahoo! Group”:http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/RolandXP-30Synthesizer/ dedicated to the Roland XP-30
“Another Yahoo! Group”:http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-30/ that is less active, but has some good files in the “files” section
“Midi Serial Cables”:http://www.dinsync.com/
“Some Soundbanks for Purchase”:http://www.patchmanmusic.com/rolandJV1080.html
“overview of JV/XP synths”:http://users.chariot.net.au/~gmarts/jv-overview.htm
COMPLETELY (mostly) unrelated: A cute site where people remix video game tunes “VGmix”:http://www.vgmix.com/index.php
So I’m looking for keyboard tabs (metal) all over the net, only to find that the ONE metal “synth” site no longer exists ANYwhere!
I think, the first incarnation, can be found advertised on some older tabs: http://synthoblivion.cjb.net/
eventually became http://www.synthoblivion.net/
which I think redirected to: http://www.jeka.org/oblivion/
“here”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=RNWE%2CRNWE%3A2005-01%2CRNWE%3Aen&q=site%3Awww.jeka.org%2Foblivion%2F is the google list of cached pages, rather sad really…
Please let me know if you know anything about this! Or if you know of other good places to find metal tabs (it says they had HAGGARD tabs!!! I want them!!!!!) (and no, taborama et al. do NOT count)
EditUPDATE!!! I used google’s cache to find the haggard tab!!
See the cache “here”:http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:XVtkpkKhDnkJ:jeka.org/oblivion/index.php%3Ftab%3Dhaggard-awaking_the_centuries.txt+&hl=en
I used the following google searches, which should be useful for anyone trying to get content from a site that is now dead, but was around long enough for google to index it (and I assume google will toss the index after a period of time, so that’s another factor, that it only died recently… but some of those caches are old, from March or July…) anyways:
GOOGLE DIGGGGGGGING
site to dig:http://jeka.org/oblivion
- [Google]_www.jeka.org/oblivion/
- then looked at cache, copied link for haggard tabs…
- [Google]_http://jeka.org/oblivion/tabs_haggard.shtml
- look at cache, google the link to the tab file itself…
- [Google]_http://jeka.org/oblivion/index.php?tab=haggard-awaking_the_centuries.txt
- And of course get the cache for that, which is the file we want: hooray!
That’s all for now…
Tab: Awakening the centuries
Artist: Haggard
Album: Awakening the centuries
Tabbed by: Chrysalis
Email : CakeHole_@hotmail.com
Web: www.Synthoblivion.com
So here is an entry I posted to my journal at DeviantArt (where I post all my photography).
Posted here on July 28, at 12:59 AM
Listening to: Enya :shudder:
Reading: Typographic Elements of Style
Watching: Laura (1944)
Well, I finally have my work situation all worked (no pun int.) out. I’m splittling my time between some paid work for the healthcare campaign where I helped out last summer ([link]) which is a great group of people, and a domestic violence center ([link]) which is un-paid volunteer work. I’m only working 4 days a week, and since it’s volunteer work the hours are really flexible.
And this way even if I end up doing boring work, it’ll be an assortment, and the work will really be for a cause that is concrete –not to mention urgent– which makes it much easier to tolerate. And that isn’t to say the work is boring at all! In fact, so far it’s been pretty interesting!
So here on DA I’ve passed the 4000 page view mark… wow. Incredible! I must say despite all my grumblings, it does feel great to see that number just keep climbing up… And I saw a definite response to my latest strategy of mixing up my commenting. Rather than spend so much time commenting on work on my watch list, which is either by famous deviants who are too busy to bother looking… well, mabe it’s more just how pressured I feel to comment on everything on my watch list, so i end up just skipping it all, or erasing it.
So anyways, I figure a few carefully written and thoughout comments, even if the artist doesn’t comment me back, will draw others’ attention. And random posting helps too, though it doesn’t get me any useful critique…
and then of course is a fantastic resource, despite it’s apparent lack of administrative support at the moment (wish I could help them, but I’d surely go insane… that is, if I was even qualified, which I’m not hehe).
So I’ve written enough for now,
time for me to get some sleeeep
OH! And I made APPLE SORBET tonight!!! Pretty damn good…
Maybe I’ll post the recipe?
Would anyone be interested?
deviantART: Glowing Window by =sidetracked
First of a few shots of Italy I have just posted to my deviantart site!
GO THERE NOW!
sidetracked.deviantart.com
Eventually, I’ll post thumbnails via flickr…
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