My boss's boss is concerned about the numbering system being used throughout our company for tracking bug fixes.  Like many young organizations, we have a culture where things like planning ahead, estimating, analyzing dependencies, resource allocation, and many other mature concepts are only noted for their absence.  It struck me today that the ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Friday evening at FKO, I was sitting in the audience and thinking that I still hadn't tried out video recording with my new iPod.  I decided I'd experiment on whichever song Urban Tapestry played next.  That worked out rather well ( Read more... )

I mentioned in an earlier post some of the new people who performed at FKO and made such a good impression on many of the attendees. That's not the whole story, however. Here, IMNSHO, is a wonderful write-up about experiencing FKO ( Read more... )

Another high point at FKO this year was getting 2nd place in the song contest. The subject was FANtastic Canada and so I wrote a song based on a fantasy series by a Canadian author: Michelle Sagara's "The Chronicles of Elantra ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

When I was young people spoke of immorality,
All the things they said were wrong,
Are what I want to beApparently, I can't stop thinking in quotes from songs. I believe there's an applicable Star Trek (TNG) episode: "Darmok, The Musical ( Read more... )

If I climbed higher than the sun
Looked into the universe
Back on Earth, I'd never speak
Just smile at everyoneI haven't felt as if I've done much worth mentioning over the past few weeks: work, eat, sleep...watch basketball and the usual TV shows. I am happy to see that Revolution is back on the air, though there's one over-rationalizing sadist ( Read more... )

Around the end of January, over on butifidid, I was talking about how much I like the way songs are mixed on the various Bruce Hornsby solo albums. With that in mind this morning, I loaded up an MP3 of his song "Shadow Hand" in my DAW software and played it while watching the display from a frequency analyzer plug-in in an effort to learn what he was doing ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned a few times here over the years, I use a piece of software called Kontakt to produce audio from MIDI ( Read more... )