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Brief History of My Time at GlobalStreams
Here is a brief history of my time at GlobalStreams (as I was explaining to Roland at Bandana’s BBQ this afternoon): Freelance – Robin Glass (www.gec-1.com) was contacted by Mike Rechan, Jason Loyet, and Bill Davis (the three original founders of GlobalStreams and he got in touch with me to do the graphics on the…
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First day back on the job at GlobalStreams
Finished the first day back on full-time employment at GlobalStreams. Spent most of it working on getting the G4 and the Sony laptop set up with the applications and my dev environment. Got set up on the G4: Purchased software: Macintosh OS X 10.3 (Panther) Adobe Creative Suite Premium Photoshop CS (8.0) Illustrator CS In…
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Listening to the Grey Album
It’s pretty good… DJ Danger Mouse remixed Jay-Z’s “Black Album” with the Beatles “White Album” to create… The “Grey Album,” of course. The New Yorker had a little Talk of the Town piece on this, Apparently, Jay-Z created a vocals-only version of his album *explicitly* so DJs could remix it. And many have. This week,…
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Streaming Chiptune music
Listening to Castelvania right now. 🙂 It’s pretty cool. I’m the only one listening to this stream right now. Chiptune music rocks. Server Status: Server is currently up and public. Stream Status: Stream is up at 56 kbps with 1 of 10 listeners (1 unique) Listener Peak: 4 Average Listen Time: 3m 07s Stream Title:…
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Cory Doctorow Presentation Talk at Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004 – Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Cory just finished his presentation at the Emerging Technologies conference (which I didn’t go to, though would like to next time…) and gave a presentation on the state of ebooks. I’ve read both of his released novels on-screen, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom just on HTML web pages and his latest, Eastern Standard…
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The Opte Project
The Opte Project Pretty cool project — the programmer maps the entire Internet in 1 day. You can buy the t-shirt at Think Geek. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/09/the-opte-project/
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Done with EST
Very good book, not too long, not too short. I continue to be impressed with Cory’s work and attitude. I think we’re both on the same wavelength. Time for some work. Laptop -> Winamp -> Been Playing 553 Minutes -> Turn up volume on stereo to hear music -> Time to switch music -> D…
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I’m in the PST Tribe, I think…
My internal clock seems to be set at somewhere a couple hundred miles off the Pacific coast (towards Hawaii) as far as awake / sleep cycles go. But I’m in St. Louis. Cory’s new book really gets it right. I really like his work. 🙂 Over halfway through the book, reading it on my phone.…
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Cory Doctorow’s new book is now available!
Cory Doctorow just released his newest novel, Eastern Standard Tribe. He’s made it available again as a free download (already got mine in Plucker format for my Samsung i330 Palm/phone.) I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom when it came out and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think Cory continues to set…
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Working Music and Productivity
Listening to Radio Paradise right now, working on freelance projects. The latest is a web site for First Church Christ, Scientist in Hayward California, the church I attended growing up. Got the first layout finished and sent to the person in charge of leading the commitee for the project. I’ve noticed an interesting correlation between…