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In the interest of making my Music page a little more accessible, I’ve set up a Flash streaming music player, and put the music downloads on a separate page.

Took some photos in the Old Dutch Cemetery this morning; light was coming in at the perfect angle to illuminate the brightly-hued leaves. More Halloween-ness!

Just posted a new instrumental called Hungry Ghosts, just in time for Halloween. Recorded with one guitar (Glass, my homebrew Strat) and one amp (modified Epiphone Valve Jr through load box). As for the name, take a look at Wikipedia.

I’ve posted my first cover – a version of Secret Journey, by The Police, from Ghost In The Machine. This is one of my favorite songs; the mysticism has always captivated me, and I love the vocal harmonies. Wikipedia: Secret Journey By the way, there’s an absolutely amazing demo version on YouTube, complete with an [...]

I updated the Places of Interest page. I finally gave up on classifying musicians by musical style, so classical, jazz, world, fusion, neo-goth world-electronica, Minimalist metal and Dadaist baroque are all in the same basket, alphabetized by name. I’ve also added a large set of links I’ve been farming for a while now, pertaining to [...]

Wrote and recorded a pseudo-baroque proggy piece today named Alpha Centauri. Another short one, under three minutes in length, tapping my inner Vivaldi (with maybe a smidgen of Brian May).

I’ve begun writing up some of my more interesting DIY projects. The venerable suitcase amp and my more recent toolbox amp are now documented.

I rewrote my shell script that grabs the current National Geographic Picture of the Day in Perl, which should allow it to run almost anywhere Perl 5 runs. The original version was a shell script that relied on the GNU version of grep (specifically the -o option). The new version, renamed ‘Paperhanger,’ is still dependent [...]

Just posted new music -a short instrumental I’ve been meaning to mix down and kept putting off. Yurtville features the recently-built Octavia pedal.

After some emergency server maintenance, we are back up. And what better time to back up? (When was the last time you backed up? How much of your recent data are you willing to lose forever?)