Sunday, August 22, 2010

Vote For My Next Song

I’m finishing up two new songs.  Now which song should I work on next?  Vote now!

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Richard Welles said,

Tom.

Having been a fan of your since I first met you about 109 years ago what ever you

pick will be great.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sorry About The Double Postings
By the way, I have no idea why the site is getting double posts from Delicious.com all of a sudden. Maybe I'll fix it someday.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Mastering Loud Songs is Hard

So I'm working on mixing these two new songs.  However, despite the explosion of free or cheap resources available to today’s amateur home recording musician, I'm finding the "mastering" process more challenging than ever for one single reason:  Loudness.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

August Music Update

Some of you reading this may be surprised to learn that, in the previous millennium, I wrote and recorded a whole bunch of music.  Some others of you already knew that and might be wondering if I’m ever planning to do that again.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

A Disturbing Civil War Parallel

We were watching Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary the other day, and I commented that I used to think it was impossible to imagine a civil war in America, but lately it seems more and more plausible.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Thoughts on Diaspora and Distributed Social Networks

[...]Like many people, I read about Diaspora a while back and thought it was a great idea.  It's one of the few open-source projects I could see myself contributing to.  Unfortunately, it's not "open" in the sense that the technical architecture is open to discussion - it will only become open after they define the architecture, good, bad or indifferent*.  So, as any programmer would, I thought, "Okay, I have some ideas on this, so if they don't want my help, I'll just write my own distributed social network.  How hard could it be?"

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Political Blogging Blues

Semi-recent posts by F.T. Rea and Vivian Paige about political blogging got me thinking about my own lack of interest in politics lately.  I don’t consider myself a “political blogger” in the accepted sense, but I certainly fall into the category of people that are less interested in politics this year.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Saint, ready to go back to school.

Check out these pictures uploaded to Picasa.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Gloves and a Feeder

A couple more macro focus pictures, taken after we cut down a bunch of trees in the back yard. They remind me of Civil War battlefield photos for some reason.

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Anonymous said,

These pics won't open.

Anonymous said,

Where are the pictures?

Mother Robin Feeding Her Hatchlings

A mother robin feeding a worm to her hatchlings in the nest over our back stairs, but only after the cameraman goes away.

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Pine Tree

One of the remaining pine trees in our back yard, after the last round of tree-cutting. Taken with my favorite camera setting - macro focus.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Puppies sharing a stick (taken with HTC Incredible).

Check out these pictures uploaded to Picasa.

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Puppies sharing a stick (taken with HTC Incredible).

Check out these pictures uploaded to Picasa.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

HTC Incredible Road Test

If you've seen my Twitter feed lately, you probably know I got an HTC Incredible (aka. Droid Incredible).  It's my first smart phone so I have nothing to compare it to.  Which means this road test review will be pretty short:  Everything about the Incredible rocks and everyone should get one.

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Sean/Red said,

I use Windows Media Player to sync media with my Android. Its not perfect though in that it doesn't do bi-directional sync for the songs I purchase from the Amazon MP3 App. There is a minor & manual workaround to easily identify and grab new songs from the device that don't exist on the host media player. Though I've forgotten it off the top of my head.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Check out these pictures uploaded to Picasa.

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