Music
It seems I may have jumped the gun a little with that last post about Bandcamp's policy change on free downloads; as is often the case with the Bandcamp team, they've taken user feedback on board and come up with a compromise that'll make
Music
I've long been a fan, and user, of Bandcamp, the fantastic music hosting site, but Bandcamp is growing up, and as part of that, it looks like we'll be growing apart as well. It's still a great service, and I wish it well, but
Linux
I don't often listen to the TLLTS podcast, but I caught a recent episode (number 361) featuring Jono Bacon, and I was not impressed. I wish Bacon would stop commenting about the state of Linux audio, because it's clear to me -- but probably not clear to
Music
It seems like that last post of mine detailing my selfish reasons for making my music available for free couldn't have been better timed. ASCAP has launched an attack on Creative Commons, the EFF, and Public Knowledge, asking its members to donate to a fund that will be
Rants
Saturday morning marked a significant milestone in spaceflight: the successful maiden launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. For years, spaceflight has been ruled by governments and the military, but SpaceX is shaking things up by developing rockets on a purely commercial basis, and at a fraction of the price
Music
I don't know if I've been feeling particularly inspired lately, but I've definitely been feeling productive. Today I submitted my entry for Tunestorm02, a music challenge that called for creating a track entirely from samples of household items. Last Tunestorm I whipped up something
Rants
For my last few sketches now I've used HTML5's built in "<audio>" tag to handle embedded streaming of my audio files, rather than using a Flash component. It's a convoluted solution right now, due to a lack of ubiquitous support
Music
Around this time last year I said (not on my blog, but on my LJ, for those that are reading this there) that I wanted to do a bit more with myself in 2009, rather than just wasting time online. I can't say that I spent a lot
Rants
Feels like time for another bullet-point update! * We got a house! Well, provisionally anyway -- we sign the lease on Saturday. It's a cute little renovated two-bedroom place in Footscray, so it's got a bit of that same old house charm that our Surrey Hills
In Stores Now!
Just a few more random updates: * It's good to see myself in print again -- there's a feature in the PC Authority that hit the stands today that lists 99 great free apps, and I contributed the Linux portion of it. I checked it out today and
Games
I thought I had a good chance of not running in to any trouble with my 360 -- after all, my model was a second-revision system, produced after MS admitted the system's issues, and for two years it had soldiered on without a problem. That came to an
Games
* The Beatles: Rock Band isn't the only thing I've been playing lately; I also picked up Shadow Complex, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. The short review for this is: Shadow Complex = Super Metroid. The graphics are entirely 3D (and quite sophisticated at that