I saw a blog post about an updated version of a software package that sounded interesting. The reason that it sounded interesting over what I’m using right now (Ecto) is that you can have multiple “Journals”. I love having a blog to share thoughts with the world but I know that the thoughts that I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hobbies’
Project Organization!
I know, I know! It’s a show name on HGTV or some home improvement cable network but I don’t need no stinkin’ Project Organization! We had too much stuff building up in our garage so I decided to thin it out a bit and move some stuff around. I also wanted to prep for the [...]
Impatience got the best of me
Ok, even though there were some rumors floating around I discounted them. I mean, when isn’t there an Apple rumor floating around about some new Mac or iPod or new piece of software or update or some such? This year there has been something delivered every Tuesday but I guessed that Apple was pacing themselves. [...]
Our 5 year old HDTV died
We owned a first generation HDTV from Pioneer – a Pioneer Elite Pro 730HD. The picture is great and the size has been great for our space. Unfortunately, we have had several problems with it though. We have had problems with the tubes/guns not showing the image correctly and needing to be replaced – not [...]
VMWare’s Fusion
In using VMWare’s Fusion (and before that Parallels), I have been using a Boot Camp partition but only because I had initially set up a Boot Camp partition. I think I kept it because I thought to myself if there was some compatibility issues, I could just boot into Boot Camp and run the s/w [...]
Kathy’s been using Facebook as a kind of community location for several of her friends and she’s been having fun with it. She likes some of the Facebook applications like Scrabulous. As the dumb grunt of a husband, I figured I’d follow my lovely wife’s lead and check this out so I signed up. I [...]
Dance Dance Revolution
We got a Wii over Christmas and the family (yes, kids and adults) have been having fun with it. I got a game for Kathy but she wanted a different game instead so we returned the game and ordered Dance Dance Revolution (DDR for short). It was on back order but we got it yesterday [...]
Wireless Speakers
I have a need to put in 2 speakers in a certain location in my house (they happen to be in a bathroom area) and wireless would be a convenient way to go but… wireless speakers still need some form of power and that means battery or AC battery powered speakers need to be turned [...]
WordPress Upgrade
The folks that develop and maintain the WordPress software are seemingly on top of all the things they need to. Every time I read about a security issue, within 24 hours it seems we get an update for WordPress. This time is not an exception. There was a report about some login issue and here [...]
New Project – Twitter/Prologue
Kathy and I are trying an experiment. I’ve never gotten into Twitter or any of it’s competitors. Kathy had never even heard of them. Some of the folks doing them (like Merlin Mann) sound interesting but others sound like they are either abusing it with links galore or just boring us to tears with news [...]
Online Guitar Lessons
I came across an interesting and really well done Guitar Lesson site. The site is basically a video lesson site providing lessons that teach songs and providing lessons on certain techniques. Their gimmick, at least with songs, is that some of the lessons are actually provided by real NAME artists. I can see the benefit [...]
New Guitar Toy
I got to sample this cool device at my local Music Store and I was way impressed by it. The device is a Vox PreAmp which is battery powered and plugs directly into the guitar and the speaker is a pair of headphones. According to Troy (again at my local music store), a good pair [...]
Security Video Cameras – Analog vs Digital
Quite awhile ago, I installed my first security video camera in my home. This was long before the notion of digital or IP based security video systems so I created a system that took the analog camera signal and placed it on a UHF channel that was then broadcast through my home cable which I [...]
Harmonic Minor Scales – Guitar
So in my last post, I shared with everyone the generated printouts of the various scales that I’ve produced via the lessons that I’ve had from my teacher over the last year and half (Mick Radcliff). My motivation for the last post was that Mick was teaching me about a new scale (new to me) [...]
Guitar Music Scales – File Download
I’ve cleaned up all my guitar related PDF’s in my download area so check them out. They include Modes (Ionian, Dorian, …), Pentatonic, Blues and such. They include scales for the keys of A, C, E, and G as well as some useful diagrams. I’ve added a new scale which I’m learning about called the [...]