Category: General
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In the interests of combating ignorance, I’ll make a note about this “zodiac change” everyone has been going on about. YOUR ZODIAC SIGN DIDN’T CHANGE!!! I’m an interested non-believer in astrology. I find it amusing, systematic, good for entertainment purposes and a reasonable psychological self-inventory system at times. I don’t really believe it has predictive…
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Just a quick note to mention that I finally posted my second novel (finished right at the end of 2005!) on this website under my writing section. FourWar is a bit (okay, a lot!) less fantastic than Alice, trading off the dreamlike qualities for something best described as a sort of sociological cyberpunk scifi blend,…
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I’ve decided to go ahead and make all of my completed (and one mostly-complete) tracks available here under a CC-BY-SA License. There are 13 tracks so far, all trance-influenced electronica, some with female vocals by Naomi. Any and all feedback is appreciated, but mostly — enjoy! On a related note, I’m making decent headway on…
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I’ve had occasion to play around with FreeSwitch lately and was looking at implementing a directory of extensions on the main menu, and so I set up Brian Snipes’ example Lua directory from the FreeSwitch wiki. I didn’t like the fact that the extension list was hardcoded, so I replaced the names{} table with the…
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I’ve recently been playing around with the SIMILE Timeline visualizer for XML data, which is pretty neat. I had one minor little gripe with it, which is that I wanted to be able to use data from an XML string in certain cases where I already was working in the context of an XSL stylesheet…
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I finally got around to finishing up a new track with Naomi. We both have vocals on this one – “Waking Alone” – so if you’re at all into trance or synthpop or some strange fusion of the two, check it out!
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Yes, as you can see, I’ve been reading both the highbrow and the low. A little of everything for the win! To start: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is a pretty fun read. A large mix of history, science, the occult, and Pynchon’s very odd brain, this one took me a bit longer to read through…
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First, I’ve finally bothered to add some of my artwork, so it’s in one place instead of spread out over a buncha blog postings. Which brings me to a related update – I’ve started pencilling a basic comic-type storyline which I expect to be a bit of horror-comedy, or so I’m thinking now. These things…
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I have no idea who Don Lapre actually is – he’s some sort of infomercial vitamin-selling scammer dude according to wikipedia. Anyway, somebody left a hand-crafted spam comment on my SORBS post today which actually referenced the content of the post, but the format of the signature was a bit strange so I jumped to…
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Not that I really expect more out of a site like MySpace, but as it seems to be ever more a necessary social evil these days, I have a profile there. Anyway, I want to add my University of Toronto time to my profile for networking purposes, but the only school it will allow is…
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