Archive for February, 2002

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Thursday, February 28th, 2002

strong>file under > how to get around the fact that Authorware 5.1 is too stupid to import mp3s:
I’ve been working on a multimedia project using Authorware 5.1. The project is an enhanced CD (audio + data). Since the data side (the side that will contain the authorware app) can’t see the cd audio side (which [...]

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Sunday, February 24th, 2002

Filmpreservation.org helps to preserve early films (mostly shorts). Our library has the four DVD set they’ve put out, which contain a total of 200 early American films. I grabbed volume two and watched D. W. Griffith’s The Loandale Operator, a good little train robbery movie from 1911, plus several other things. I’m still working my [...]

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2002

file under > good but not perfect:
At the request of two of my bandmates, I reworked the color scheme on the Nancy site. I also created a nice ad (I’m assuming it’s going to be for the web, but I also worked up a print version) for the Solace Kid disc. I’m going to eventually [...]

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Thursday, February 21st, 2002

Two (complimentary) views of the Enron swindle: the Onion and Alternet (via danerousmeta!).

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Sunday, February 17th, 2002

I’ve never really been part of the Ebay revolution. But I just now put an item up for sale. I put it up for Gina, actually, it’s a TI-89 graphing calculator that she bought but then didn’t need. Since I’d already pitched the packaging, I couldn’t take it back to the store. So I figure [...]

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Friday, February 15th, 2002

I’ve been running sound on the side to make a little extra cash. It’s fun work. Tonight I ran sound for a NYC folk singer named James Thomas along with his friend, Austin folk singer Philip Gibbs. It was a good performance. It’s a nice excuse to go see a show. And it’s a pleasant [...]

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Monday, February 11th, 2002

Wheat’s BassBook, v.5.0 has left the building. This is the first major update in two years. I completely overhauled the interface. Now each chapter (or, if you choose, the entire book) is assembled on the fly thanks to PHP includes. I stripped out every bit of legacy code. It’s all CSS and solid HTML. A [...]

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Saturday, February 9th, 2002

I’m sick as a dog. I stayed home from work Friday in hopes that I’d be able to rest up and recuperate. But the entire weekend was shot as well (today, I barely got out of bed). It’s been no fun at all. The only good thing is that I’ve been doing a lot of [...]

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Thursday, February 7th, 2002

I found this unauthorized translation of the bassbook into, I believe, Korean. It’s just book one, and, to their credit, the copywrite info was left unaltered (though they did tweak the design a bit).

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2002

I’ve been coding a new project using PHP and ODBC to perform searches on a MS Access database file. It’s cool and gives me lots of ideas about how I can use ODBC to make other data in web-unfriendly formats availible through web interfaces.

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