FYI, you can access wikipedia securely at
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page
Also, if you navigate to https://mail.google.com/ instead of http://mail.google.com, your entire session will run securely, although with GMail, there still might be an internal frame that’s running plain old insecure http.
Here’s a post of several MP3’s I’ve made over the past few years. Riddled with mistakes, sloppiness, incompletion, and bad mixing, some are still perhaps worth a listen.
Acoustictry1
Cinematrick
Classicrocktubereason2
Dispar8, it gets good halfway through
Hype
Leedzor, one of my first classic Facebook posts
Pianotrick, an even older piece in 3/4
Simple Guitar Rock
Even Longer Piano Jam from even longer ago
The Office Theme, redone
Vintage Rock
Me and James (mostly James) installed my subwoofer and amplifier in my truck yesterday. I am quite pleased with it, kicks very hard at high volumes and sounds very clean at normal volumes. At very high volumes my headlights dim slightly at every bass hit. I also fixed my third door handle.
An arrangement of three different short piano themes I worked up. Decided to make a video as well.
Observation
Today I decided to implement Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Media Player, which is provided by my web host Dreamhost. I’m also using the Wordpress plugin WP-FLV, which basically lets me use a short <flv> tag instead of the lengthy code normally required to embed the player.
All of my songs will now be streamable from their respective blog posts, as well as downloadable as before. The category page for my compositions is now also an easy “playlist” where you can easily listen to all the songs I’ve ever posted. Here’s a sample embedded streaming MP3:
My piano cover of the Pure Pwnage song Christmas Time In Dun Morogh, which can be found here. Bad singing, I know, it doesn’t get any better though.
Using only 2 overheads and a snare mic. Obviously having a kick mic over snare mic would’ve been better.
Using 2 overheads and kick mic. Idk, I’m missing the snare now, makes the whole thing sound more roomy and muddy I think. Obviously I just need more XLR cables.
I just discovered that Word 2007 is supposed to be able to publish to a number of blogging services and platforms, and if you can read this, then indeed it can!
Basically you just go to New, then type in blog and you should see a result “New Blog Post.” You then input your account information, given the choice of blogging services: Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Sharepoint Blog, Community Server, Typepad, Wordpress, and Other. I quickly typed in the blog’s url, along with user name and password, and was presented with a fairly standard Word blank page, with an area for story title and, naturally, a story body area (wherein I now type). Word does suit itself well to formatting words (who’da thunk?), giving me quick access to emboldening, italicizing, underlining, and strikethroughing (strikingthrough?) text, as well as creating
and
However, I’m skeptical that I will ever use Word as a blog publisher, or that very many people do. Nevertheless I was surprised to find the feature, and impressed that they thought about it. Perhaps I’m way behind the times and this has been in prior versions of Word as well.
Haha, incidentally, while writing this post within Word, Word decided to stop responding, so I had to end task. Luckily, Word recovered this article. Good ole Word.
This isn’t quite a whole song yet, more of a theme that should find its way into some sort of song. I’ve been experimenting with simple octave melodies with the right hand, which will hopefully help develop a (much needed) more involved left hand technique. Named after this lego set.
