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I have finally found a good lighting solution for my sound stage. Lithonia Lighting is now selling linkable LED strips. The 4-foot ones are 3200 lumens. You buy a power cord for one and linking cords for the rest, and you only need one outlet. They are silent, compact, and easily mountable. They have a […]
Oh, this is frustrating. I buy my music from iTunes. This started when I had an iPhone, and even though I no longer have an iPhone, I find iTunes to be the easiest way to find new music and buy it. Consequently, most of my music is stored in .m4a files, which is an MPEG-4 […]
I just finished watching the last episode of the first season of The OA. Without spoiling anything, it definitely did not leave me with a sense of closure, but it also wasn’t clearly a cliffhanger. I couldn’t even tell from that ending whether there would even be a second season. Fortunately, just twelve hours prior, […]
Exploring Android development has sparked my interest in smart watches. I see I have a lot to learn. Until now, I have ignored the smart watch market. This is mainly because I’ve stopped wearing a watch. I used to wear one all the time, but I’ve noticed that they have become somewhat unfashionable. Among the […]
Last month, I was forced* to upgrade my Adobe CS6 Production Premium to CC. I have been fighting with it ever since. If anyone asks me, it is a downgrade. The most debilitating problem with Premiere Pro CC is that the new playback engine under CC didn’t like my video card. Playback was extremely choppy, […]
It was circa 1999 when I bought a Palm V, my first PDA. I learned how to develop applications for Palm OS, which was done in C. I wrote a few useful little applications, and I was even paid by a client to develop a simple application. Later, I acquired a Treo 650, my first […]
At work, we use monitoring systems to alert us to problems with the system, so that we can react to them quickly. We take the monitoring systems quite seriously. Today, on one of my personal servers, I discovered that a service had crashed, and I hadn’t noticed for fifteen hours. It was quite a shock […]
I learned the Pascal programming language in high school, during the 80’s. I could have learned it on my own before that, but since my school was offering it, I figured I would learn it there. The class was thorough, I caught on quickly, and I still remember most of it. Later I bought a […]
Once upon a time, I bought Pro Tools, which is software for recording and making music electronically. I spent a lot of money on it, and when I got it home, I discovered that it won’t even work with a sound card. (It can, with a piece of software that emulates an ASIO driver, but […]
One of the problems with wearing t-shirts that have esoteric computer geek things on them is that periodically airhead girls will come up to you and tell you they like your shirt, and you’ll spend the next five minutes explaining that they have no idea what it means, and whatever they thought was funny about […]
